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This comprehensive report explores how Census data can be utilized to analyze service use in various sectors such as education, healthcare, welfare, and justice. Discover the insights gained from linking Census information with hospital records and the importance of accurate data for policy-making.
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Census measures of service use Tim Carlton Commonwealth Grants Commission
Census generally tells us who people are; • Not what they are doing • Why is Census useful? • Internal consistency
Most hospitalised occupations • Hospital data identify occupation • Comparable definitions and coding processes • Context sensitive answers
What State services • School Education • Post school education • Health • Admitted patients • Welfare • Residential care for people with disabilities • Child protection • Public Housing • Justice services • Prisons • Transport Services
Apparent participation rate of 10-14 year oldsRatio of School enrolments to ERP
Welfare • Range of Indicators of use of welfare services • Institutional care: Spent census night in • Hostel for disabled • hostel for the homeless, night shelter, refuge; or • other welfare institution. • Non-Institutional care • Foster care • Group homes for disabled
Relative use of public housingStandardised for equivalised household income
Prisoners • Census forms did not go to individual prisoners • Prison staff filled out based on admin records • Indigeneity, birthplace, age – • have admin data comparability issues • Other indicators — Not Stated
Indigenous Hospital Record Project • Do Indigenous people identify in hospital admissions? • Ideally Census Data enhancement would link records between census and hospital admissions. • Please pleaseplease! • Next best approach is to link hospitals
Linking hospitals • AIHW, through State health departments, tells us about people who spent census night as a patient in a public hospital: • Hospital = Princeton‑Plainsboro Teaching Hospital • SLA = “West Windsor, New Jersey” • Admitted on or before 8 August 2006 • Separated on or after 9 August 2006 • 420 People including 25 Indigenous • Census tells us about people who spent censusnight as a patient in a public hospital • SLA = “West Windsor, New Jersey” • Type of Non Private dwelling = Public hospital (not psychiatric) • Residential status in NPD = Guest, patient, inmate, other resident. • 400 People, including 30 Indigenous
Indigenous identification in hospital separations data-quality report
Conclusions • Census is phenomenally powerful • Use your imagination • Let us use the power • Table builder needs more power • Ethnicity of parents of 17 years olds in school • Really identify Disabled group homes • Where do hospital patients usually live • Census data enhancements