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Estimates of prevalence of intellectual disability in Australia
- Author:
- AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND WELFARE
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 29(3), September 2004, pp.284-289.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Estimates provided by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
People with an intellectual or early onset disability in Australia
- Author:
- AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND WELFARE
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 28(1), March 2003, pp.79-83.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In 1998 there was a total of 278,100 Australians with ''severe or profound core activity restriction'' living in households, who experienced disability before the age of 18 years. A total of 102,800 people reported an intellectual ''main disabling condition'' and of those, 96,100 had the condition before 18 years of age. The primary data source for this data brief is the Australian Bureau of Statistics' 1998 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers.
A snapshop of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities using specialist disability services in Australia 2002
- Author:
- AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND WELFARE
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 28(3), September 2003, pp.297-304.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement (CSDA) provides the arrangements whereby specialist disability support services are planned, funded and administered in Australia. The Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement Minimum Data Set (CSDA MDS) is a national collection of data conducted under the heads of government disability services throughout Australia. The data are collected on a single 'snapshot' day each year in May or June. Discusses the results of a data collection from 2002, including information about the users of disability support services and the service outlets that provide these services.