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released: 5 Aug 2005 author: AIHW media release

This report presents data on services provided or funded by governments under the CSTDA, and the people accessing these services between 1 July 2003 and 30 June 2004.The report presents a range of data relating to service users, their characteristics, their informal carers, and patterns of service usage. In addition, there is information on the service outlets providing disability support services nationwide during 2003-2004.

ISSN 1444-3589; ISBN 978 1 74024 488 6; Cat. no. DIS 40; 138pp.; OUT OF PRINT

Full publication

Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (171K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of appendix tables
    • List of figures and boxes
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
  • Sections
    1. Summary (Sections 1-3: 252K PDF)
    2. Introduction
      • Brief history of the CSTDA NMDS
      • Collection method and data included
      • Scope of the CSTDA NMDS
      • Counts and definitions
      • Outputs from CSTDA NMDS collections
      • Data quality
    3. Service users: characteristics and service use
      • State distribution and service type
      • Age, sex and disability group
      • Indigenous status
      • Country of birth
      • Communication method and need for an interpreter
      • Income and labour force status Note 1
      • Individualised funding
      • Location of service users
    4. Informal carers, support needs and living arrangements (Sections 4-7: 319K PDF)
      • Presence of an informal carer
      • Carer age and relationship to service user
      • Carer primary status and co-residency
      • Support needs
      • Living arrangements and residential setting
    5. Service outlets
      • Agency sector
      • State distribution and service type
      • Period of operation
    6. Service usage
      • Starting and exiting services
      • Measures of service quantity
      • Multiple service usage
    7. Data quality
      • Service type outlet response rates
      • Service user response rate
      • 'Not stated' and 'not known' rates
  • End matter (346K PDF)
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1: Detailed tables
      • Appendix 2: CSTDA NMDS 2003-04 collection forms
        • CSTDA NMDS Service type outlet form 2003-2004 (115K PDF)
        • CSTDA NMDS Service user form 2003-2004 (153K PDF)
      • Appendix 3: Using the statistical linkage key
      • Appendix 4: Service type classification (definitions)
      • Appendix 5: English Proficiency groupings
    • References

Notes and corrections

The current version of the publication is presented above.
Previous versions of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.

  1. 20050805: Page 36-3.6 Income and labour force status figures contained in the second last paragraph of this page were replaced. Page 39 -3.7 individualised funding figures contained in the last paragraph were replaced. These changes affected Tables 3.17 and 3.19 - please see Errata (48K PDF).

Recommended citation

AIHW 2005. Disability support services 2003-04: national data on services provided under the Commonwealth State/Territory disability agreement. Disability series. Cat. no. DIS 40. Canberra: AIHW.