An Australian housing conditions data infrastructure

Emma Baker; Claire Morey; Lyrian Daniel; Andrew Beer; Rebecca Bentley; Wendy Stone; Steven Rowley; Christian A Nygaard; Kerry London

doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02739-2

An Australian housing conditions data infrastructure

Sci Data. 2023 Nov 21;10(1):817. doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02739-2.

Authors

Emma Baker¹, Claire Morey², Lyrian Daniel³, Andrew Beer⁴, Rebecca Bentley⁵, Wendy Stone⁶, Steven Rowley⁷, Christian A Nygaard⁶, Kerry London⁸

Affiliations

¹ Australian Centre for Housing Research, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005, Australia. emma.baker@adelaide.edu.au.
² Australian Centre for Housing Research, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005, Australia. claire.morey@adelaide.edu.au.
³ UniSA Creative, The University of South Australia, Adelaide, 5000, Australia.
⁴ UniSA Business, The University of South Australia, Adelaide, 5000, Australia.
⁵ Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3000, Australia.
⁶ Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, 3122, Australia.
⁷ School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Curtin University, Perth, 6102, Australia.
⁸ Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor Research, Torrens University Australia, Sydney, 2007, Australia.

Abstract

For the past two decades, researchers and policy makers have known very little about conditions within Australia's housing stock due to a lack of systematic and reliable data. In 2022, a collaboration of Australian universities and researchers commissioned a large survey of 22,550 private rental, social rental and homeowner households to build a data infrastructure on the household and demographic characteristics, housing quality and conditions in the Australian housing stock. This is the third and largest instalment in a national series of housing conditions data infrastructures.

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Dataset