The AIHW's report Australia's Welfare 2003 presented a set of broad summary indicators of the welfare of Australia's population, assembling indicators and data from authoritative Australian literature and statistical publications. This working paper presents the background research on which that material was based, together with more detailed information on the development of the conceptual framework...

This paper present findings of the review of the first year of collection of the National Community Mental Health Care Database, which is supplied to the AIHW under the specifications of the National Minimum Data Set for Community Mental Health Care.

The National Community Services Data Dictionary, Version 3, contains definitions and data domains that are endorsed as national standards for use by those collecting community services data in Australia. Version 3 introduces metadata items that are common with the National Health Data Dictionary (NHDD) and updates metadata items: some following endorsement by the World Health...

This report is the outcome of a project undertaken for the Australian government's Department of Health and Ageing on the consistency and comparability of dependency information across three aged and community care programs: Home and Community Care, Aged Care Assessment Program and Community Aged Care Packages.

The 2002-03 home purchase assistance collection was the fourth and final collection to occur under the 1999 CSHA. The 1999 CSHA aims to facilitate access to affordable, appropriate and secure housing for people on low incomes and people with special needs. Under this CSHA a new national performance indicator framework was developed for the public...