Standardised disability flag module
Data Set Specification Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Set Specification |
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METEOR identifier: | 521050 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 19/09/2013 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 |
DSS type: | Data Set Specification (DSS) |
Scope: | The Standardised disability flag is a module comprising questions and output data items to identify people with disabilities or long term health conditions who experience difficulties and/or need assistance in various areas of their life. The module looks at how people function in everyday activities, as well as whether they have a specific restriction in participating in education or in employment. The module is designed to provide consistent and comparable information across services in all Australian jurisdictions over time and across data collections. Services in scope are those that people encounter in everyday life—such as healthcare, education, housing, transport, and community services. While information is available on services especially designed for people with disabilities, information on the experience of people with disabilities in other services is not. |
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Statistical unit: | Person | ||||||||||
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Guide for use: | The Standardised disability flag comprises a set of questions and associated derived items:
The questions comprising the Standardised disability flag need to be asked directly of a respondent or via proxy, and answers to these questions should not be substituted/ transferred from existing records. The Flag does not include a question on disability type: this information may be collected in addition to the Flag by individual organisations, as required. The input items for the module comprise:
The output items for the module comprise:
The education participation restriction flag and the employment participation restriction flag are independent input/output items, and these are in turn independent from the activity limitation extent and flag items. It is expected that the presentation and wording will be standard across all services and settings, although there is some flexibility in terms of the grammar of questions to allow a proxy/carer to answer the Standardised Disability Flag questions on behalf of a person who would be unable to complete the questions themselves. All components of the Standardised disability flag should be collected in the context of a long-term health condition or disability. A long-term health condition is one that has lasted, or is expected to last, 6 months or more. Examples of long-term health conditions that might restrict a person’s everyday activities include severe asthma, epilepsy, mental health condition, hearing loss, arthritis, depression, autism, kidney disease, chronic pain, speech impairment, stroke. Disability is a general term that covers:
Note that in the context of this definition, for a person to be fully assessed as having disability (as conceived by the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health), the person has to report:
as captured by the output items described above. Hence, if only the Extent of activity limitation or Activity limitation flag items are reported, then some clients who only have a specific education and/or employment participation restriction (that is, do not have an activity limitation in one of the eight life areas covered by the Activity and participation need for assistance cluster) may be excluded from the identified group of people with disability.
As noted above, the Extent of activity limitation, Activity limitation flag and Extent of core activitiy limitation items are derived from the Activity and participation need for assistance cluster, and the output and input items use different but complementary terminology. The relationship between these terms is described in the following table:
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Collection methods: | The mandatory data items required for analysis of the Standardised disability flag are: • Activity and participation need for assistance cluster • Education participation restriction flag • Employment participation restriction flag. It is recommended that data covering socio-demographic factors—such as age, gender, Indigenous status, country of birth, living arrangements, student status and employment situation—also be collected to provide contextual information about clients and assist in the analysis of client needs. However, as such data are likely to already be collected by each organisation, there is no further information about these data items in the following sections. The Flag questions can be completed by the client (or the client’s proxy, such as parent, guardian or carer), or by a staff member ‘interviewing’ the client or their proxy. It can be completed using paper forms or an online form as part of the organisation’s systems.
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Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | ||||||||||
Reference documents: | Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2006. Disability variables, 2006. ABS cat. no. 1200.0.55.001. Canberra: ABS. Viewed 24th August 2001, ABS 2009. Disability, aging and carers, Australia: user guide. ABS cat. no. 4431.0.55.001. Canberra: ABS. Australian Government 2011. National Carer Strategy. Viewed October 2012. COAG (Council of Australian Governments) 2011. National Disability Strategy 2010–2020. Viewed September 2012. COAG 2012. National Disability Agreement (2012). Viewed September 2012. Productivity Commission 2011. Disability care and support: Report no. 54. Canberra: Productivity Commission. SCRGSP (Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision) 2011, National Agreement Performance Information 2010-11: National Affordable Housing Agreement. Viewed March 2013, <http://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/national-agreements/affordable-housing> World Health Organization (WHO) 2001. ICF: International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. Geneva: WHO | ||||||||||
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Related metadata references: | See also Disability Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 09/08/2023 Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Standard 30/08/2022 Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Disability, Standard 28/09/2016 Health, Standard 29/06/2016 |
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