People with disability in Australia

Amendments

16 Jan 2023 – The data on school students with disability from the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability have been updated to 2021. The updated data can be found in Education and skills – Engagement in education – School (primary and secondary) section of the report, under ‘Other sources of data on school students’.

5 July 2022 – A major update was performed, including new content on personal life, social inclusion and finances of people with disability and their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, and updating data on specialist disability services, social housing, homelessness services, education, and income support.

2 Oct 2020 – A major update was performed, including replacing the 2015 ABS SDAC data with 2018 SDAC data and updating data on specialist disability services, social housing, homelessness services, education, and income support.

21 Oct 2019 – A number of small typographical and aesthetic changes were made to figures throughout the report. 

18 Sep 2019 – Figure 1 located under The disability policy environment section of this report was modified, including reformatting the diagram and amending a typographical error.