End of Tenancy Survey - End of Tenancy Survey 2 Aug 2021 - 30 June 2022

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End of Tenancy Survey 2 Aug 2021 - 30 June 2022

Download URL: https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/c3140df4-50a5-453c-9022-a625853d1519/resource/25fcb641-6730-49e4-b833-62c523c353a0/download/220928-data-nsw-end-of-tenancy-survey-sep-29-final.csv

NSW tenancy laws say how residential tenancy agreements can be ended. Tenancies are usually terminated by the tenant, landlord, the landlord's agent, or by a NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal order.

Fair Trading conducts an end-of tenancy survey to collect data about how and why tenancies end. This survey was designed to help Fair Trading to better understand the renting experience to help inform future tenancy reforms. The current survey commenced on 2 August 2021.

The survey content and questions have been developed with reference to the laws about how tenancies can end under the NSW Residential Tenancies Act 2010 https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-2010-042

The survey process

Every principal tenant and landlord or nominated agent is asked to complete a survey when a bond claim is finalised through an online bonds system. Survey invitations are sent by email and participation is voluntary. Individual responses are kept anonymous.

Fair Trading initially conducted a pilot survey in 2019/2020. Results from that survey informed the current ongoing end of tenancy survey.

The end of tenancy survey

The survey data is collected quarterly, and is available to download for use by the community, research, business and industry.

To mitigate re-identification risks, postcode information has been removed and response dates grouped into months.

It should be noted that the representativeness of the survey data is limited, including because:

participation is voluntary
the survey only includes respondents who used Rental Bonds Online to lodge and claim their rental bond, so the sample does not extend to all terminated tenancies
no demographic information is collected
some tenancies had duplicate responses
domestic violence victims may also self-select out of completing such a survey, given their vulnerability and the difficult circumstances they may experience after ending a tenancy

Explanatory notes

Description of data and key terms

All answered survey questions are provided.
'Recipient ID' is a randomly generated number that can match responses that relate to the same rental bond claim. It is not used as part of the online bond system, and has not been provided to any respondents. 'Null’ response indicates either that particular respondent did not answer the question or was not asked that question because of their answer to the previous survey question.
Some responses to ‘What was the weekly rent at the end of the tenancy?’ appear to be incorrect, with respondents potentially providing the rent amount on a monthly rather than weekly basis.
‘Role’ indicates if the survey respondent was a managing agent, landlord or tenant
‘Month response received’ indicates the month that the survey response was received. Survey invitations are usually sent out within 10 days of a bond claim being finalised.
The initial 2021 survey period (August-September) was reduced to two months. This is because the survey only commenced in August 2021.
Duplicate responses (where more than one tenant, or both the tenant and the agent or landlord responded to the survey invitation) have not been removed from this dataset.

End of Tenancy possible pathways

This document explains the design of the End of Tenancy Survey. There are a total of 62 possible pathways that a survey participant may travel through to complete the survey, shown in column A ‘Pathways’.

For further information about ending a tenancy: https://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/housing-and-property/renting/ending-a-tenancy

For further information about the end of tenancy survey: https://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/housing-and-property/end-of-tenancy-survey

Details
Last updated	29/09/2022
Date Created	27/09/2022
File format	CSV
Licence	Creative Commons Attribution

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Field	Value
Title	End of Tenancy Survey 2 Aug 2021 - 30 June 2022
Data last updated	29/09/2022
Metadata last updated	29/11/2022
Format	CSV
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Size	14.93 MB

Data Dictionary

Label	Type	Description
RecipientID	text
What kind of agreement was the tenancy when it ended	text
How did this tenancy end	text
How did the tenancy end by Tribunal order	text
Why did the tenancy end	text
Why did the tenancy end_2	text
Why did the tenancy end_3	text
Why did the tenancy end_4	text
Why did the tenancy end_5	text
Why did the tenancy end_6	text
Why did the tenancy end_7	text
Why did the tenancy end_8	text
Why did the tenancy end_9	text
What evidence was used for the domestic violence notice	text
What was the rent amount at the end of the tenancy	text
Was the rent amount entered in the previous question paid	text
Did the tenancy end due to COVID-19	text
What was the rent amount at the end of the tenancy_2	text
Was the rent amount entered in the previous question paid_2	text
Did the tenancy end due to COVID-19_2	text
What was the rent amount at the end of the tenancy_3	text
Was the rent amount entered in the previous question paid_3	text
Did the tenancy end due to COVID-19_3	text
Role	text
Timestamp	text

CKAN Data API

Access resource data via a web API with powerful query support. Further information in the main CKAN Data API and DataStore documentation.

Code examples:

curl JavaScript PowerShell Python R

Querying

Get 5 results containing "jones" in any field:

curl https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search \
  -H"Authorization:$API_TOKEN" -d '
{
  "resource_id": "25fcb641-6730-49e4-b833-62c523c353a0",
  "limit": 5,
  "q": "jones"
}'

const resp = await fetch(`https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search`, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'content-type': 'application/json',
        authorization: API_TOKEN
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
        resource_id: '25fcb641-6730-49e4-b833-62c523c353a0',
        limit: 5,
        q: 'jones'
    })
})
await resp.json()

$json = @'
{
  "resource_id": "25fcb641-6730-49e4-b833-62c523c353a0",
  "limit": 5,
  "q": "jones"
}
'@
$response = Invoke-RestMethod https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search`
  -Method Post -Body $json -Headers @{"Authorization"="$API_TOKEN"}
$response.result.records

(using the ckanapi client library)

from ckanapi import RemoteCKAN

rc = RemoteCKAN('https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/', apikey=API_TOKEN)
result = rc.action.datastore_search(
    resource_id="25fcb641-6730-49e4-b833-62c523c353a0",
    limit=5,
    q="jones",
)
print(result['records'])

library(httr2)

req <- request("https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search")
result <- req %>% 
    req_headers(Authorization = API_TOKEN) %>% 
    req_body_json(list(
        resource_id = '25fcb641-6730-49e4-b833-62c523c353a0',
        limit = 5,
        q = 'jones'))
    req_perform %>% 
    resp_body_json

Get results with either "watershed" or "survey" as subject and "active" as its stage:

curl https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search \
-H"Authorization:$API_TOKEN" -d '
{
"resource_id": "25fcb641-6730-49e4-b833-62c523c353a0",
  "filters": {
    "subject": ["watershed", "survey"],
    "stage": "active"
  }
}'

const resp = await fetch(`https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search`, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'content-type': 'application/json',
        authorization: API_TOKEN
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({resource_id: '25fcb641-6730-49e4-b833-62c523c353a0', filters: {
        subject: ['watershed', 'survey'],
        stage: 'active'
    }})})
await resp.json()

$json = @'
{
  "resource_id": "25fcb641-6730-49e4-b833-62c523c353a0",
  "filters": {
    "subject": ["watershed", "survey"],
    "stage": "active"
  }
}
'@
$response = Invoke-RestMethod https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search`
  -Method Post -Body $json -Headers @{"Authorization"="$API_TOKEN"}
$response.result.records

from ckanapi import RemoteCKAN

rc = RemoteCKAN('https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/', apikey=API_TOKEN)
result = rc.action.datastore_search(
    resource_id="25fcb641-6730-49e4-b833-62c523c353a0",
    filters={
      "subject": ["watershed", "survey"],
      "stage": "active",
    },
)
print(result['records'])

library(httr2)

req <- request("https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search")
result <- req %>% 
    req_headers(Authorization = API_TOKEN) %>% 
    req_body_json(list(
        resource_id='25fcb641-6730-49e4-b833-62c523c353a0', 
        filters = list(
            subject = list("watershed", "survey"), 
            stage = "active")))
    req_perform %>% 
    resp_body_json

Using the API with this Web Browser

Some API endpoints may be accessed using a GET query string.

Query example (first 5 results)

https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=25fcb641-6730-49e4-b833-62c523c353a0&limit=5

Query example (results containing 'jones')

https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=25fcb641-6730-49e4-b833-62c523c353a0&q=jones