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Preliminary material: Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Symbols

Summary

  1. Introduction

    • 1.1 Brief history of the CSTDA and the NMDS
    • 1.2 Details of the collection
    • 1.3 Government expenditure on CSTDA services
    • 1.4 Overview of services used in 2007–08

  2. Service users

    • 2.1 State distribution and service type
    • 2.2 Age, sex and disability
    • 2.3 Country of birth
    • 2.4 Communication method and need for an interpreter
    • 2.5 Income and labour force status
    • 2.6 Location of service users

  3. Informal carers, support needs and living arrangements

    • 3.1 Presence of an informal carer
    • 3.2 Carer age and relationship to service user
    • 3.3 Primary carer status and co-residency
    • 3.4 Support needs
    • 3.5 Living arrangements and residential setting

  4. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service users

    • 4.1 Number, location and distribution
    • 4.2 Characteristics
    • 4.3 Service use

  5. Service agencies and outlets

    • 5.1 Distribution of agencies
    • 5.2 Service type outlets
    • 5.3 Outlets and service users
    • 5.4 Outlet period of operation

  6. Patterns of service use

    • 6.1 Multiple service use
    • 6.2 Measures of service quantity
    • 6.3 New users
    • 6.4 Service exits

  7. Data quality

    • 7.1 Service type outlet response rate
    • 7.2 Service user response rate
    • 7.3 ‘Not stated’ and ‘not known’ rates
    • 7.4 Other data quality issues

Appendixes

  1. Detailed tables
  2. Time series tables
  3. CSTDA NMDS 2007–08 collection forms
  4. The statistical linkage key
  5. Service type classification
  6. Data items requiring collection by various service types
  7. English proficiency groupings

End matter: References; List of tables; List of appendix tables; List of boxes and figures

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