Count of persons with selected long-term health condition(s) in household (CPLTHD)

This variable counts the number of people in a household who reported they had at least one of the selected long-term health conditions. Selected long-term health conditions include:

• arthritis
• asthma
• cancer (including remission)
• dementia (including Alzheimer’s)
• diabetes (excluding gestational diabetes)
• heart disease (including heart attack or angina)
• kidney disease
• lung condition (including COPD or emphysema)
• mental health condition (including depression or anxiety)
• stroke.

‘Any other long-term health condition(s)’ are excluded from the count. 

Occupied private dwellings

This variable is derived from responses to the long-term health conditions question. It counts the number of people in a household who have marked one of the following long-term health conditions:

• arthritis
• asthma
• cancer (including remission)
• dementia (including Alzheimer’s)
• diabetes (excluding gestational diabetes)
• heart disease (including heart attack or angina)
• kidney disease
• lung condition (including COPD or emphysema)
• mental health condition (including depression or anxiety)
• stroke.

If all people in the household did not answer the long-term health conditions question, this variable is set to ‘All persons in household not stated’.

If some people in the household did not answer the long-term health conditions question, this variable is set to category 11, ‘Some persons in household had not stated a long-term health condition’.

If a person marks only ‘Any other long-term health condition(s)’, they are not counted as having a long-term health condition in this variable. These people are counted in category 00 'No persons in the household have a long-term health condition'.

Visitor only households and Other non-classifiable households are excluded. Persons temporarily absent are excluded from this variable.

This is a new variable for 2021. 

Count of persons with selected long-term health condition(s) in household (CPLTHD) should be used carefully when comparing to other health data from within the ABS and for external organisations or agencies. Relevant definitions and response categories can differ between different statistical collections and may not match Census definitions. For more information, see Comparing ABS long-term health conditions data sources. 

This variable does not have a non-response rate as it is created during Census processing by using responses from more than one question on the Census form. The proportion of dwellings where either all people in the household did not answer the long-term health conditions question, or some people in the household did not answer the long-term health conditions question, was 7.3%.

• Count of persons with selected long-term health condition(s) in household (ranges) (CPLTHRD)
• Count of adults (15 years and over) with selected long-term health conditions in household (CALTHD)
• Count of children with selected long-term health conditions in household (CCLTHD)
• Long-term health condition(s)

• National Health Survey: First results
• National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey
• Health: Census