The National Disability Data Asset is being made by the:

• Department of Social Services (DSS)
• Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

These Australian government agencies are called ‘Commonwealth Partners’. Partners means that they work together.

When you see the word ‘we’ or ‘us’ it means the Commonwealth Partners.

The National Disability Data Asset is a new way to bring together information about all Australians.

In this document we call it the data asset.

Data is:

• facts
• information
• records.

The information in the data asset will not have private information. This means the data asset will not have a person’s:

• name
• where they live
• their phone number
• email address
• bank details.

We worked with a company called Maddocks to do a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA). Maddocks are not part of the government. They are a business that is very good at helping to make or keep data private.

Maddocks did a report on the PIA.

A report is a written document to say what was learned.

You can get a summary of the PIA report on the webpage: Privacy for the National Disability Data Asset.