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RENTAL INSIGHTS:
A COVID-19 COLLECTION
About the Australian Rental
Housing Conditions Dataset
In mid-2020, the largest systematic
collection of data on living in the
Australian rental sector—The Australian
Rental Housing Conditions Dataset
(ARHCD)—was conducted. Gathering
information from 15,000 (public and
private) renting households across all
Australian states and territories, funded
by the Australian Research Council
in partnership with six Australian
universities. An additional AHURIfunded COVID-19 module was included
in the survey to leverage the timing
and scale of this major Australian
data collection.
The ARHCD questionnaire, developed
by the research team3, focussed on
housing experiences, characteristics
and quality, health, and household
demographic characteristics. A
commercial survey provider was
contracted to undertake data collection.
The full data collection commenced
in July 2020, using a combination of
computer-aided-telephone-interview
(CATI) and online panel methods. Data
was gathered from a representative
proportion of renters in all Australian
states and territories.
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The contributions in this Collection
are based on the preliminary version
of the dataset provided to researchers
in late August. The dataset contains
information from 14,486 households
renting their housing in Australia. The
majority of responding households
(13,289) were surveyed via the online
platform, which included the COVID-19
module. All survey respondents resided
in rented accommodation, either in the
private rental sector or in public and
community housing, at the time that
they participated in the survey.
The ARHCD, including the COVID-19
module, achieved a balanced sample
across age, gender, location and
landlord type. Quotas were used
to achieve representativeness by
state/territory and landlord type.
Respondents living in social housing
(public and community sectors) were
purposely over-sampled to allow for
adequate sample sizes when stratified
in future analysis.
Following embargo, the ARHCD will
be accessible via the Australian
Data Archive.
https://dataverse.ada.edu.au/dataset.
xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.26193/
IBL7PZ&version=1.0
Data citation:
Baker, Emma; Beer, Andrew ; Baddeley,
Michelle ; London, Kerry; Bentley,
Rebecca; Stone, Wendy; Rowley,
Steven; Daniel, Lyrian; Nygaard,
Andi; Hulse, Kath ; Lockwood, Tony ,
2020, “The Australian Rental Housing
Conditions Dataset”, doi:10.26193/
IBL7PZ, ADA Dataverse, V1
Emma Baker, The University of Adelaide; Andrew Beer, The University of South Australia; Rebecca Bentley, The University of Melbourne; Steven
Rowley, Curtin University; Michelle Baddeley, (formerly) The University of South Australia; Kerry London, (formerly) University of Western Sydney;
Wendy Stone, Swinburne University; Lyrian Daniel, The University of Adelaide; Andi Nygaard, Swinburne University; Kath Hulse, Swinburne
University; Tony Lockwood, The University of South Australia.
