Data dictionary - High psychological distress - Health and wellbeing - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Attributes

Outcome area	Health and wellbeing
Priority	Mental health
Measure	Proportion of adults with disability with high or very high levels of psychological distress.
Most recent data	2022
Baseline data	2018
Population	People aged 18 and over with disability living in households.
Numerator	Number of people aged 18 and over with disability living in households with high or very high levels of psychological distress.
Denominator	Number of people aged 18 and over with disability living in households, excluding those who were not asked the psychological distress questions or where it was not possible to determine the psychological distress score.
Computation description	Number of people with disability aged 18 and over living in households with high or very high levels of psychological distress, divided by number of people with disability aged 18 and over living in households (excluding those who were not asked the psychological distress questions or where it was not possible to determine the psychological distress score). Expressed as a percentage.
Computation	100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

Source Name	Australian Bureau of Statistics – Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers (SDAC)

Measure	High psychological distress