Disability support services 2005-06: national data on services provided under the Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement

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• Preliminary material (188KB PDF)
  • Half title and verso pages
  • Title page and verso pages
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Symbols
  • summary
• Sections (480KB PDF)
  1. Introduction
     1. Outline of the report
     2. Brief history of the CSTDA NMDS
     3. Counts and definitions
     4. Collection method and data included
     5. Scope of the CSTDA NMDS
     6. Government expenditure
     7. Outputs from the CSTDA NMDS collection
     8. Data quality
  2. Service users: characteristics and service use
     1. State distribution and service type
     2. Age, sex and disability group
     3. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Service Users
     4. Country of birth
     5. Communication method and need for an interpreter
     6. Income and labour force status
     7. Individualised funding
     8. Location of service users
  3. Informal carers, support needs and living arrangements
     1. Presence of an informal carer
     2. Carer age and relationship to service user
     3. Carer primary status and co-residency
     4. Support needs
     5. Living arrangements and residential setting
  4. Service users with autism spectrum disorders
     1. Autism in the Australian population
     2. Disability groups, age and sex
     3. Service usage
     4. Support needs
     5. Informal carers
     6. Summary
  5. Service outlets
     1. Agency sector
     2. State distribution and service type
     3. Period of operation
     4. Location of service type outlet
  6. Service usage
     1. Measures of service quantity
     2. Multiple service usage
     3. Service exits
  7. Service usage
     1. Service type outlet response rates
     2. Service user response rate
     3. 'Not stated' and 'not known' rates
• End matter (384KB PDF)
  • Appendixes
    • Appendix 1: Detailed tables
    • Appendix 2: Trend tables
    • Appendix 3: CSTDA NMDS 2005 - 06 collection forms
    • Appendix 4: The statistical linkage key
    • Appendix 5: Service type classification (definitions)
    • Appendix 6: English proficiency groupings
  • References
  • List of tables
  • List of appendix tables
  • List of figures and boxes

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. (8 May 2008) Figure 2.3 on page 22 has been updated. The previous figure did not take into account all service users reported under the CSTDA
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