Scientific Data (Nov 2023)

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
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02739-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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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.