This publication is one of the Series 8 reports on the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) National Data Collection for 2002-03. The series provides information on people who were homeless and people who were at risk of being homeless who accessed SAAP in 2002-03. This report looks at the demand for SAAP services and the...

The interface between acute hospital care and residential aged care has long been recognised as an important issue in aged care services research. Investigations into the feasibility of linking hospital morbidity and residential aged care data to examine the interface between the two sectors using linkage keys which did not include name, part of name...

This publication examines the coverage and quality of data about Indigenous households in the 2001-02 Commonwealth State Housing Agreement (CSHA) data collections. It identifies gaps in data coverage and highlights data quality issues in public housing, CSHA community housing, the Crisis Accommodation program, home purchase assistance and private rent assistance. The publication also includes recommendations...

This report uses the results of the 1998 Australian Bureau of Statistics Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers to present a picture of informal care in Contemporary Australia, focusing on the questions: who are the primary carers, who do they assist, and what does caring involve? The report explores the impact of caring work and...

This series of Drug Treatment Data Briefings presents findings from the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set for New South Wales, Tasmania, South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory, Victoria and Western Australia. This is a nationally agreed set of common data items collected by government funded service providers of...