Data dictionary - Unmet hospitalisation need - Health and wellbeing - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Attributes

Outcome area	Health and wellbeing
Priority	Health and wellbeing
Measure	Proportion of people with disability who reported unmet need for hospital admission in the last 12 months.
Most recent data	2018
Baseline data	2018
Population	People with disability of all ages, living in households, who needed to go to hospital in the last 12 months.
Numerator	Number of people with disability of all ages living in households who at least one time in last 12 months needed to go to hospital but did not.
Denominator	Number of people with disability of all ages living in households who needed to go to hospital in the last 12 months.
Computation description	The number of people with disability of all ages living in households who at least one time in last 12 months needed to go to hospital but did not, divided by the number of people with disability living in households who needed to go to hospital in the last 12 months. Expressed as a percentage.
Computation	100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

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

Measure	Unmet hospitalisation needs