On the snapshot day of 22 May 2002, an estimated 1,388 people with disabilities accessed 1,669 services in Tasmania funded by the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement. Of these services, the majority (76.2%) were received by people who identified their primary disability as intellectual. People with a physical disability received a further 6.2% of services.
State-wide, males accessed 54.0% of services, and females received the remaining 45.2% of services (source: Department of Health and Human Services).
PERSONS WITH A DISABILITY RECEIVING SERVICES, Tasmanian regions(a) - 22 May 2002 |
|
 | Greater Hobart-Southern | Northern | Mersey-Lyell | Tasmania |
Disability type(b) |
no.
|
no.
|
no.
|
no.
|
|
| Developmental delay | - | - | - | - |
| Intellectual | 656 | 312 | 303 | 1,271 |
| Autism | 8 | 9 | 16 | 33 |
| Physical | 46 | 28 | 30 | 104 |
| Acquired brain injury | 32 | 43 | 11 | 86 |
| Speech | 3 | - | - | 3 |
| Psychiatric | 41 | 5 | 10 | 56 |
| Neurological | 39 | 26 | 21 | 86 |
| Other(c) | 8 | 16 | 6 | 30 |
| Total | 833 | 439 | 397 | 1,669 |
|
- nil or rounded to zero
(a) Refers to persons receiving a Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement funded service on the snapshot day. Note that it is possible for a single person to utilise more than one service on a given day.
(b) Refers to the person's primary disability.
(c) Includes 'not stated' and specific learning/ADD, deafblind, vision and hearing disability types.
Source: Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement Minimum Data Set collection, Department of Health and Human Services. |
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