ACTGHS social support, adults

Commentary

In 2022, the majority of respondents to the ACT General Health Survey said that if they needed to, they could ask someone for help when they had a serious illness or injury (95.0%), for advice on what to do (93.8%), for emotional support (92.2%), for help to maintain family or work responsibilities (88.7%) and to provide emergency money, accommodation or food (87.7%). In 2022, males (89.9%) were significantly less likely to report that they could ask for emotional support than females (94.4%). Respondents aged 18 to 24 years (98.0%) were significantly more likely to report that they could ask for emergency money, accommodation or food than respondents aged 25 to 44 years (88.4%), respondents aged 45 to 64 years (85.6%) and respondents aged 65 years and over (84.5%) in 2022.

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.

Social support in a crisis 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.

Definitely yes and probably yes response categories were combined for reporting.

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.

Data

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Codes and sources

Q. If you needed to, could you ask someone for any of these types of support in a time of crisis?

for advice on what to do
for emotional support
to help out when you have a serious illness or injury
for help to maintain family or work responsibilities
to provide emergency money, accommodation or food.

Definitely yes; Probably yes; Probably not; Definitely not; Don't ever need this kind of support; Don't know; Refused

Don't ever need this kind of support, 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.