ACTGHS discrimination, adult age groups
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Commentary
18.6% of respondents to the 2022 ACT General Health Survey aged 18 to 24 years, 21.9% of respondents aged 25 to 44 years, 18.7% of respondents aged 45 to 64 years and 11.4% of respondents aged 65 years and over reported that they had experienced discrimination or been treated unfairly by others in the past 12 months. Of the respondents who said that they had experienced discrimination in the last 12 months, 84.0% of respondents aged 18 to 24 years, 58.1% of respondents aged 25 to 44 years, 44.1% of respondents aged 45 to 64 years and 51.1% of respondents aged 65 years and over indicated that they experienced discrimination little of the time/one time. There was no significant difference between age groups for those who had experienced discrimination in the last 12 months or the frequency of the discrimination experienced in 2022.
Only includes experiences in Australia.
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.
Discrimination is collected every third year (2019 and 2022). Respondents are aged 18 years and over (i.e. no children).
Persons includes respondents who identified as male, female, other and those who refused to answer and may not always add to the sum of male and female.
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 experienced discrimination in the past 12 months, by age group, ACT General Health Survey, 2019-2022
Data
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Codes and sources
Q. In the past 12 months, do you feel that you have experienced discrimination or have been treated unfairly by others?
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.