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released: 20 Jun 2003 media release

This report presents data on services directly provided or funded by governments under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement (CSDA).The report describes the data collection process, and provides details of the service outlets providing CSDA-funded services. It also shows the numbers of consumers using the services and some of their characteristics.The 2002 collection is the final one to be based on 'snapshot' day numbers. Future reports will be based on a redeveloped collection with on-going, full-year data.

ISSN 1444 3589; ISBN 978 1 74024 277 6; Cat. no. DIS 31; 118pp.; $19.00

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Disability support services 2002

National data on services provided under the Commonwealth/State disability agreement

Disability series

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (180K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of appendix tables
    • List of figures and boxes
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
  • Sections
    1. Summary (153K PDF; HTML)
    2. Introduction (236K PDF)
      1. CSDA MDS collections
      2. Collection method and data included
      3. Scope of the collection
      4. Counts in the collection
      5. Redevelopment of the CSDA MDS collection
      6. Changes since the 2001 snapshot collection
      7. Applications of the CSDA MDS data
      8. Interactive disability data
    3. Consumers of CSDA services (303K PDF)
      1. State distribution and service type
      2. Age, sex and disability group
      3. Trends in age
      4. Disability group
      5. Indigenous status
      6. Country of birth
      7. Need for interpreter services
      8. Communication
      9. Life areas and frequency of support
      10. Consumer location
      11. Income source
      12. Living arrangements and residential setting
    4. Consumers of multiple services (126K PDF)
      1. Combinations of services used
    5. CSDA service outlets (161K PDF)
      1. Agency sector
      2. State distribution
      3. CSDA funding
      4. Staff hours
      5. Hours, days and weeks of operation
    6. Data quality and development of the collection (124K PDF)
      1. Response rates and data quality
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      1. Appendix 1: Detailed tables (181K PDF)
      2. Appendix 2: CSDA MDS 2002 collection forms (130K PDF)
      3. Appendix 3: Using the statistical linkage key (201K PDF)
      4. Appendix 4: English Proficiency groupings by country of birth (121K PDF)
    • References (75K PDF)

Recommended citation

AIHW 2003. Disability support services 2002: national data on services provided under the Commonwealth/State disability agreement. Disability Series. Cat. no. DIS 31. Canberra: AIHW.