Overview

People with disability interact with every aspect of social policy and programs in Australia. They access both specialist and mainstream services across a wide variety of areas. Many also receive support through informal carers.

More reports and statistics on disability services can be found under Disability.

Latest findings

Almost one-third of NDA service users aged 15 and over were not in the labour force (30%) Most NDA service users who transitioned to the NDIS had an intellectual or learning primary disability (71%) About 1 in 11 (9%) NDA service users transitioned to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) during the year 164,000 Australians had autism in 2015 Males were 4 times as likely as females to have autism About 2 in 5 NDA service users had an intellectual or learning disability (43%) In 2016–17, about 331,000 people used services under the National Disability Agreement (NDA) Almost 4 in 5 NDA service users with autism were aged under 25 83% of Australians with autism were aged under 25 43,500 NDA service users had autism

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