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released: 20 Dec 2000 author: Anderson P, Psychogios C & Golley L media release

This report presents national data on open employment services for people with a disability and the clients of these services in 1998-99. It details the characteristics of open employment clients and examines their employment and support experiences. Over 34,000 clients were supported by open employment services in 1998-99, with about half of these clients working at some time during the period. The average worker was employed for 33 weeks and, while employed, worked 24 hours per week. The data were collected via the National Information Management System (NIMS) for open employment services.

ISBN 978 1 74024 092 5; Cat. no. DIS 20; 103pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (100K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Acknowledgements
    • Summary (78K PDF)
  • Sections
    1. Introduction: People with disabilities and employment (95K PDF)
      • Disability in Australia
      • Employment services in Australia
      • NIMS data system and its development
    2. Service providers (63K PDF)
      • Numbers of open employment services
      • Staff numbers
      • Client numbers
      • Open employment outlets and predominant disability groups
    3. Client characteristics (87K PDF)
    4. Job characteristics (140K PDF)
      • Numbers of jobs
      • Wages of jobs
      • Job hours per week
      • Reasons for jobs ending
      • Duration of jobs
    5. Job experience of clients (130K PDF)
      • Job history
      • Measures of job experience
      • Job experience of male and female workers
      • Job experience by age
      • Job experience by Indigenous and South Sea Islander status
      • Job experience by preferred spoken language
      • Job experience by primary disability
      • Job experience and prescence of other disability
      • Job experience and frequency of assistance required for activities of daily living
      • Job experience and type of living arrangement
      • Job experience and referral source
      • Job experience, employment basis, occupation and industry
      • Job experience by State and Territory
      • Job experience and location
    6. Client support (115K PDF)
      • Total hours of support
      • Support for workers and non-workers
      • Client support and client characteristics
      • Client support and characteristics of primary job
      • Client support by State or Territory and location
  • End matter (75K PDF)
    • Appendix 1: Technical notes
    • Appendix 2: Codes update
    • Glossary
    • References

Recommended citation

Anderson P, Psychogios C & Golley L 2000. Open employment services for people with disabilities 1998-99. Disability Series. Cat. no. DIS 20. Canberra: AIHW.