National Healthcare Agreement: PI 26-Residential and community aged care places per 1,000 population aged 70+ years (and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50-69 years), 2018 QS
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Quality Statement |
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| METEOR identifier: | 681607 |
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| Indicators linked to this Quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 26–Residential and community aged care places per 1,000 population aged 70+ years (and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50–69 years), 2018 |
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Data quality | |
| Quality statement summary: |
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| Institutional environment: | Approved services submit data to Department of Human Services (DHS) to claim subsidies from the Australian Government. These data are provided to Department of Health (DoH) to administer services under the Aged Care Act 1997and the Aged Care Principles and to administer places delivered under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Aged Care Strategy. The data quality statement was developed by the then Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) in 2009 and includes comments from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). For further information see the AIHW website. |
| Timeliness: | Numerator: Based on a stocktake of aged care places which were operational, and count of Home Care Packages recipients, at 30 June 2017. Data for the current reporting period are available in October each year. |
| Accessibility: | Aggregated data items are published in the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision's (SCRGSP’s) Report on government services, the Reports on the operation of the Aged Care Act 1997 prepared by DSS, and in the AIHW’s Aged care statistics series. |
| Interpretability: | Further information on definitions is available in the Aged Care Act 1997 and at the following page on the Department of Health website: https://agedcare.health.gov.au/publications-and-articles/legislation. |
| Relevance: | Numerator: The data includes all residential places offered by aged care services subsidised by the Australian Government under the programs identified above. Residential places are those allocated to an Aged Care Planning Region which were delivered in an Australian Government subsidised residential aged care facility and were operational at 30 June 2017, and includes Multi-Purpose Services and places delivered under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care and Innovative Care Programs provided in a residential aged care facility.
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| Accuracy: | The data used to calculate this indicator are from an administrative data collection designed for payment of subsidies to service providers and have accurate data on the number and location of funded aged care places. |
| Coherence: | The data items used for the numerator in this indicator are consistent and comparable over time. This indicator is consistent with other publicly available information about aged care places. In 2011, the ABS updated the standard geography used in Australia for most data collections from the Australian Standard Geographical Classification to the Australian Statistical Geography Standard. Also updated at this time were remoteness areas, based on the 2011 ABS Census of Population and Housing. The new remoteness areas will be referred to as RA 2011, and the previous remoteness areas as RA 2006. Data for 2009 through to 2012 reported by remoteness were reported for RA 2006. Data for 2013 and subsequent years are reported for RA 2011. The AIHW considers the change from RA 2006 to RA 2011 to be a series break when applied to data supplied for this indicator, therefore remoteness data for 2012 and previous years are not directly comparable to remoteness data for 2013 and subsequent years. |
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