Reporting
Reporting dates | Privacy | Aggregate data reports
Agencies that are funded under the Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement are required under their funding arrangements to record key information about their service users on an ongoing basis.
Agencies need to provide the data they collect to DSQ quarterly, and DSQ will transmit the information to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) annually.
Reporting dates for 2008-09
September quarter
- Reporting period – 1 July to 30 September 2008
- Reference week – 24 to 30 September 2008
- Lodgement date – 31 October 2008
December quarter
- Reporting period – 1 October to 31 December 2008
- Reference week – 25 to 31 December 2008
- Lodgement date – 31 January 2009
March quarter
- Reporting period – 1 January to 30 March 2009
- Reference week – 24 to 31 March 2009
- Lodgement date – 30 April 2009
June quarter
- Reporting period – 1 April to 30 June 2009
- Reference week – 24 to 30 June 2009
- Lodgement date – 31 July 2009
Information about collecting and providing data including access to data collection materials and contact information is available from the data collection page.
Privacy
To comply with privacy legislation and privacy and data principles, it is the responsibility of each CSTDA funded agency to inform it’s service users that non identifying data about them will be provided to DSQ and from there to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) to become part of a national disability services data set.
It is important that service users are made aware not only that data will be provided to DSQ and the AIHW, but that this data will be used only for statistical purposes and will not be used to affect individual entitlements.
For further information and a sample privacy statement for use on standard service user forms, refer to the CSTDA NMDS Data Guide: Data Items and Definitions 2008-09 and CSTDA NMDS Privacy and Data Principles available from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) website.
Aggregate data reports
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) produces an annual data report titled; Disability support services: National data on services provided under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement. Further information on the report can be obtained from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) website.
Last updated September 2008