We would like to see questions similar to the UK census which capture -Number of people providing care by sex, age, general self rated health, and hours a week spent providing care.
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Population
Sex and gender
Households and families
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Income and work
Unpaid work and care
Education and training
Ticked
Disability and carers
Housing
Location
Transport
Cultural diversity
Religion
Other topic
Topics on Disability and carers
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Need for assistance
Ticked
Unpaid care (due to the disability, long term illness or old age of another person)
Other/unknown
Assessment Criteria 1
1.
This topic is of current national importance.
National Importance
The topic is needed to support policy development and planning and the research data will be used for research purposes.
Assessment Criteria 2
2.
There is a need for data from a Census of the whole population.
For whole population
We cannot get a true picture of how many people are carers providing unpaid care supports on a National nor State level.
Assessment Criteria 3
3.
The topic can be accurately collected in a form which the household completes themselves.
Easy to answer
The topic can easily be understood and responded to by quick questions such as the ones used in the UK census. Number of people providing care by sex, age, general self rated health, and hours a week spent providing care.
Assessment Criteria 4
4.
The topic would be acceptable to Census respondents.
Acceptable
Census respondents may not have identified that they are unpaid carers previous to anyone asking these questions. The questions potentially are awareness raising.
Assessment Criteria 5
5.
The topic can be collected efficiently.
Collected efficiently
If the UK census ask these questions then presumably they do not present too much of a difficulty coding, processing, nor should they significantly add to the cost of the census.
Assessment Criteria 6
6.
There is likely to be a continuing need for data on this topic in the following Census.
Continuing need
The data is likely to be needed on an ongoing basis and will remain more and more relevant into the future.
Assessment Criteria 7
7.
There are no other alternative data sources or solutions that could meet the topic need.
No alternatives
As far as we are aware there is no large scale survey which collects this data already.
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Further comments
We believe it would be of great value to a variety of organisations and government departments to ascertain via data collection the; number of people providing care by sex, age, their general self rated health, and hours a week spent providing care.