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Title Indigenous disability data - current status and future prospects : report on proceedings of the Canberra workshop, April 1998
Published [Canberra] : Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1998

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 W'PONDS  362.4 Aus/Idd  AVAILABLE
Description viii, 155 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Opening remarks -- Introduction to the Indigenous disability dta workshop / Barry Wight -- An Aboriginal community control perspective / Steve Larkin -- A State perspective / Ian Hamm -- A Torres Strait Islander perspective / Grace Fischer -- ch. 2. Reports on the roles of Commonwealth agencies : -- Department of Health and Family Services / Kim Wisener -- Department of Social Security and Centrelink / Cheryl Trussler -- ch. 3. Reports from State and Territory agencies -- New South Wales / Allan Dernee -- Victoria / Ian Hamm -- Queensland / Mike Lewis -- Queensland / Don Lewis -- South Australia / Vicki-Lee Knowles -- Western Australia / Charlie Rook -- Tasmania / Sue Prestedge -- Northern Territory / Ali Nur -- Australian Capital Territory / Elaine Pulleine -- ch. 4. Concepts, definitions and data collection -- Ideas and options for collecting disability data for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples / Jennie Widdowson -- Disability definitions and concepts : working towards national consistency / Ros Madden -- ch. 5. Assessing the need for services ; surveys, other collections and studies -- Aboriginal perception of disability : developing a shared lexicon / Trish Rees -- The Taree study - a model for Indigenous disability research / Neil Thomson -- Do/How do/should definitions of disability incorporate Indigenous perceptions of disability? / Louis Ariotti -- Plans for testing the Beta ICIDH-2 in the area of indigenous Australians with a disability / Kate Senior -- The Aboriginal community controlled health sector perspective on the collection and use of Aboriginal health data, and its relevance for people with a disability in Aboriginal communities / Pat Swan and John D. B. Williams -- ch. 6. Quality and reporting of indigenous disability data -- Reporting on government services received by indigenous people with a disability / Jeff Byrne -- The indigenous identification standard classification question and issues for disability / Phillipa Scurrah -- Assessing the completeness and quality of indigenous identification in administrative collections / Barbara Gray, Joan Cunningham and Tony Barnes -- Issues of identification in CSDA-funded disability support services - South Australia and Victoria / Mary Beneforti and Yin Paradies.endations
Summary Provides information on the current status of Indigenous disability data collections in the States and Territories; data quality, data requirements and data collection issues; identification of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin
Notes "A joint program of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and Department of Health and Family Services"
AIHW Catalogue No. DIS 10
Includes tables
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Commonwealth of Australia 1998
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Statistics.
Aboriginal Australians with disabilities -- Statistics.
Aboriginal Australians with disabilities -- Population -- Statistical methods.
Aboriginal Australians with disabilities.
Aboriginal Australians -- Disabilities -- Statistics
Aboriginal Australians -- Population -- Statistical methods.
Demographic surveys -- Australia -- Statistical methods.
People with disabilities -- Statistics.
Genre/Form Statistics.
Author Australia. Department of Health and Family Services.
Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Indigenous Disability Data Workshop (1998 : Canberra)
ISBN 0642247684