National Disability Agreement: j-Proportion of people with disability receiving income support, 2012

Collection and usage attributes

Number of persons with disability who receive the Disability Support Pension divided by total number of people with disability.

R/N x 100
Where
R = number of people received disability support pension aged 16-64 years at the end of the reporting period and

N = estimated potential population for receipt of disability support pension (people aged less than 65 years with profound or severe core activity limitation) on 30 June at the end of the reporting period.

Number of persons with disability aged 16 to 62 years who receive the Disability Support Pension (DSP).

Estimated potential population for receipt of disability support pension (people aged less than 65 years with profound or severe core activity limitation) on 30 June at the end of the reporting period.

All with reported disability 16-64 years by state/territory:

- Sex and age groups (male, female, persons)
- Country of birth (Australia, other English speaking countries, all English speaking countries, non-English speaking countries, total (including inadequately described))

Performance indicator is restricted to the age range 16-64 years.

Representational attributes

Data source attributes

Accountability attributes

Data Source for Numerator:
Centrelink/FaHCSIA DSP 2010

Data Sources for Denominator:

ABS SDAC 2009
ERP June 2010
ABS 2006 Census of Population and Housing

FaHCSIA/Centrelink and ABS; quality statement to be produced by ABS.

Available disaggregation depends on sampling errors and other caveats.

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes