Australian Institute of Health and Welfare explained Demographic Concept

Abbreviated as AIHW; referenced by 2 other explainers

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) is an independent Australian Government agency. It collects data on health and welfare, and on housing too, and it publishes what the data shows. It was set up by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Act 1987.

Help with housing

Each year the AIHW publishes Housing assistance in Australia. Its data comes from the state and territory housing authorities and from the community housing providers. For social housing, it counts the homes in each council at 30 June: public housing, state owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) and community housing together. It splits them by program only for each SA4. It counts Indigenous community housing for whole states only.

Sources

• Housing assistance in Australia, AIHW. Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.

How Place Forecast Uses This

Place Forecast reads the AIHW's count of social housing homes in each council. It splits each council's count by its SA4's mix of programs. Then it shares the count across the council's mesh blocks. It uses the 2021 Census to see where social housing renters live. The figures appear in social housing.