Disability in Australia: changes over time in inclusion and participation fact sheets: community living, education and employment
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2017) Disability in Australia: changes over time in inclusion and participation fact sheets: community living, education and employment, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 23 October 2024.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2017). Disability in Australia: changes over time in inclusion and participation fact sheets: community living, education and employment. Canberra: AIHW.
MLA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Disability in Australia: changes over time in inclusion and participation fact sheets: community living, education and employment. AIHW, 2017.
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Disability in Australia: changes over time in inclusion and participation fact sheets: community living, education and employment. Canberra: AIHW; 2017.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2017, Disability in Australia: changes over time in inclusion and participation fact sheets: community living, education and employment, AIHW, Canberra.
While people with disability participate actively in all aspects of Australian life, they are more likely to face challenges than people without disability, and their rates of participation in various life areas are generally lower. These fact sheets use data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers to look at changes that occurred between 2003 and 2015 for people with disability in the key life areas of education (DIS 69), employment (DIS 68), and community life (DIS 67).
- Cat. no: DIS 67-69
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53% of working-age people with disability participated in the labour force in 2015, similar to 2003
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10% of working-age people with disability in the labour force were unemployed, a slight increase from 2003
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Around 4 in 5 children and young people with disability (81%) attended school in 2015, similar to 2003