National Disability Agreement: b(1)-Proportion of people with disability who participate in social and community activities, 2012

Collection and usage attributes

Number of people aged 5-64 years with disability who have had face-to-face contact with ex-household family or friends in the previous week divided by number of persons with disability aged 5-64 years.

R/N x 100

Where R = number of persons aged 5–64 with disability who have had face-to-face contact with ex-household family or friends in the previous week and

N = total number of persons with disability aged 5–64 years

Number of persons aged 5–64 years with disability who have had face-to-face contact with ex-household family or friends in the previous week.

Total number of persons with disability aged 5–64 years

By state/territory

• Disability status (has profound or severe disability, other disability or restrictive long term health condition, total with disability, has no disability, total)

(All with reported disability 5–64 years by state/territory)

• Sex (male, female, persons)
• Age group (5-14, 15–24, 25-34, 35–44,45–54, 55–64, total 15–64)
• Remoteness Area (Major Cities, Inner Regional, total)
• Country of birth (Australia, other English speaking countries, all English speaking countries, non-English speaking countries, total (including inadequately described))
• English proficiency (no detail provided)
• Sex by age group (where possible)
• Indigenous people by state/territory.
  

Representational attributes

Indicator conceptual framework

Data source attributes

Accountability attributes

SDAC 2009 for all data except Indigenous; NATSISS 2008 for Indigenous data; General Social Survey (GSS) 2006 for comparison data.

Available disaggregation depends on sampling errors and other caveats.

Reporting issues are the same as listed in performance indicator a.

SDAC data are collected every three years.

2009 SDAC does not provide this data for the Indigenous population, therefore Indigenous data needs to be taken from a different source (e.g. NATSISS 2008).

The NATSISS uses the abbreviated form of the Disability Module, which is less detailed than the SDAC.

Social and community activities as defined in the NATSISS are more culturally appropriate for Indigenous Australians than those in the SDAC.

Comparison data for the non-disabled population is only available for the first of these performance indicators, from the General Social Survey 2006, and then only for adults.

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes