National Disability Agreement: h-Proportion of carers of people with disability accessing support services to assist in their caring role (h-interim), 2012
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | Proportion of carers of people with disability accessing support services to assist in their caring role (h-interim), 2012 |
METEOR identifier: | 467950 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Superseded 23/05/2013 |
Description: | Support services for carers. |
Indicator set: | National Disability Agreement (2012) Community Services (retired), Superseded 23/05/2013 |
Outcome area: | Families and carers are well supported Community Services (retired), Standard 23/07/2010 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 |
Data quality statement: | National Disability Agreement: (h) interim-Proportion of carers of people with disability accessing support services to assist in their caring role, 2012 QS Community Services (retired), Standard 05/03/2012 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age from: | 0 |
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Population group age to: | 64 years. |
Computation description: | (Interim) Number of disability support service users aged 0-64 years with an informal carer, where the service user accessed services to assist the carer in their caring role, in the reporting period divided by number of disability support service users aged 0-64 years with an informal carer in the reporting period. |
Computation: | R/N x 100 (Interim) where R = number of DS NMDS service users aged 0–64 years with an informal carer, where the service user accessed services to assist the carer in their caring role in the reporting period and N = number of DS NMDS service users aged 0–64 years with an informal carer in the reporting period. |
Numerator: | (Interim) Number of disability support service users aged 0–64 years with an informal carer, where the service user accessed services to assist the carer in their caring role, in the reporting period. |
Numerator data elements: | |
Denominator: | (Interim) Number of disability support service users aged 0–64 years with an informal carer in the reporting period. |
Denominator data elements: | |
Disaggregation: | Disaggregation's will be presented for each of the following categories of services:
Each category of services will be presented for the following disaggregation's. State/territory by
Disaggregation's will be presented for each of the following categories of services: Where possible, respite services will be further disaggregated as follows: State/territory by:
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Disaggregation data elements: | |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NN.N] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Health |
Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | Data Sources for Numerator: DS NMDS 2009-10 CSTDA NMDS 2008-09 Data Source for Denominator: DS NMDS 2009-10 |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. |
Benchmark: | Not applicable |
Further data development / collection required: | The DPRWG has committed to further work to develop a more broadly based (population) measure of support services for carers. Data development may involve data linkage across administrative data sets. (Interim) The AIHW will conduct an investigation into the feasibility and data quality of attaching SEIFA to the DS NMDS. (Interim) Classifications proposed above are appropriate for the current CSTDA/DS NMDS. Classifications will need to be reviewed in line with any future changes to the NMDS. Note that the existing DS NMDS counts people with informal carers; it does not count carers. The National Disability Data Network has identified improved carer data as a priority area for NMDS redevelopment. Use of DS NMDS data in the interim only provides a proxy measure for this indicator. |
Other issues caveats: | Available disaggregation depends on sampling errors, confidentiality and other caveats. Cells with numerator counts less than 5 will be suppressed. Numerator and denominator cells will be suppressed, where disaggregated by state/territory (excluding totals). Information about the Indigenous status of the carer, the country of birth of the carer and the remoteness of the carer is not available from the DS NMDS. Service users with age in the range 0 to 64 years and service users with ‘not stated’ age are included in calculations for this indicator. Service users with age reported to be 65 years or older are not included. Treatment of ‘not stated’ values within disaggregation's:
Caution is recommended in the use or interpretation of performance at service type level. There is a risk when the service type level data is interpreted in isolation as various service types are complementary and the emphasis on different services reflects jurisdictional policy directions. Potential population estimates in these tables are not necessarily specific to the individual service type. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Steward: | Disability Policy and Research Working Group (DPRWG) |
Relational attributes | |
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