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released: 28 Jun 2001 author: AIHW media release

Disability Support Services 2000: National Data on Services Provided Under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement presents data on services directly provided or funded by governments under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement (CSDA).The report describes the data collection process, consumers, their characteristics and the service outlets they used. Estimates fo consumers were possible by the use of a statistical linkage key to adjust for people receiving more than one type of service on the one day. For the first time, the report includes information on trends since 1996.

ISSN 1444 3589; ISBN 978 1 74024 124 3; Cat. no. DIS 23; 127pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (201K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables, appendix tables, figures and boxes
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
  • Sections
    1. Summary (182K PDF; HTML)
    2. Introduction (144K PDF)
      1. CSDA MDS collections
      2. Collection method and data included
      3. Scope of the collection
      4. Counts in the collection
    3. Consumers of CSDA services (374K PDF)
      1. Age and sex.
      2. Trends in age
      3. Disability group
      4. Country of birth
      5. Indigenous status
      6. Communication
      7. Frequency and area of support
      8. Income source
      9. Accommodation
      10. Urban, rural and remote area distribution
      11. Service type and State distribution
    4. Consumers of multiple services (162K PDF)
      1. Combinations of services used
      2. Multiple service usage by consumer groups
      3. Use of services in 1999 and 2000
    5. CSDA service outlets (145K PDF)
      1. Auspice
      2. State distribution
      3. Staff hours
    6. Data quality and development of the collection (158K PDF)
      1. Response rates and data quality
      2. Change in the collection
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1: Papers and publications using the CSDA MDS collections (82K PDF)
      • Appendix 2: Detailed tables (184K PDF)
      • Appendix 3: CSDA MDS 2000 collection forms (1.17M PDF)
      • Appendix 4: Using the statistical linkage key (179K PDF)
      • Appendix 5: User Guide to Interactive Disability Data (102K PDF)
    • References (81K PDF)

Recommended citation

AIHW 2001. Disability support services 2000, national data on services provided under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement. Disability Series. Cat. no. DIS 23. Canberra: AIHW.