ACTGHS disability, adult age groups

Commentary

In 2022, 19.4% of respondents to the ACT General Health Survey aged 18-24 years, 16.1% aged 25-44 years, 24.5% aged 45-64 years and 29.5% aged 65 years and over reported that they have a disability, health condition or injury that has lasted, or is likely to last, 6 months or more which restricts their everyday activities. In 2022, adults aged 65 years and over were significantly more likely to report that they have a disability than adults aged 25 to 44 years.

For the purpose of reporting the ACT General Health Survey data on HealthStats, if the 95% confidence intervals of the estimates do not overlap, they are considered to be significantly different.

Note: The indicator shows self-reported data collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). Estimates were weighted to adjust for differences in the probability of selection among respondents and were benchmarked to the estimated residential population using the latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates.

Respondents to the 2022 survey were aged 18 years and over. Persons includes male, female, other and refused sex respondents and may not always add to the sum of male and female.

The 2021 estimate for adults aged 18 to 24 years has a relative standard error between 25% and 50% and should be used with caution.

The 2019 and 2020 estimates for those aged 18 to 24 years have not been published due to small numbers, a relative standard error greater than 50% or unreliability of another group.

Statistically significant differences are difficult to detect for smaller jurisdictions such as the Australian Capital Territory. Sometimes, even large apparent differences may not be statistically significant. This is particularly the case in breakdowns of small populations because the small sample size means that there is not enough power to identify even large differences as statistically significant.

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Proportion of adults aged 18 years and over who have a disability, by age group, ACT General Health Survey, 2019-2022

Data

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Codes and sources

Q. Do you have a disability, health condition or injury that has lasted, or is likely to last, 6 months or more which restricts your everyday activities?

Yes; No; Don't know; Refused

Don't know and refused responses were excluded from analysis.

A copy of the ACT General Health Survey questionnaires can be found in Data collections.