North metropolitan area profile consultation document - accessible

Profile—North Metropolitan area
Area profile for comment
January 2013
cared accommodation including residents of hospitals, nursing homes, aged care
and disability hostels and other homes such as children’s homes, who had been or
were expected to be living there for at least three months
prisons
boarding houses
indigenous communities
caravan parks and camping grounds.
Annual Client and Service Data Collection (ACDC) 2011–2012, Service
user data (Disability Services Commission 2012)
The ACDC is the Disability Services Commission’s (the Commission’s) system of collecting
and analysing important information concerning people with disabilities and the services
they use. This information is collected on an annual basis by each service provider and is
reported to the Commission.
Organisations are requested to provide information about:
each of the service types they are funded to provide
all service users who received appropriate support over the financial year
the service type(s) the service user received.
For more detailed definitions about ACDC collection refer to Annual Client and Service Data
Collection (ACDC) Data Guide: Questions and Definitions (disability.wa.gov.au) .
Reporting exclusions:
Some service type outlets—particularly those providing advocacy or information/referral
services are not requested to provide any service user details.
Unique count:
Service use data
People recorded in ACDC as using services in this area have been reported as a unique
count, with multiple recordings of people against service types removed.
If a person lives in two profile regions during the same year they may be counted in both
locations.
Provider data
Some people are reported as using services from multiple service providers within a service
type. In this instance multiple records have not been removed as this occurrence could
reflect personal choices in changing their provider (i.e., portability of funding).
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