Background

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

In this document we call it the data asset.

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The data will come from different parts of the government.

Data is:

  • facts
  • information
  • records.

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The data asset will help show how people with disability live.

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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.

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The data asset is being made by the:

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

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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.

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States and territories and the disability community are part of making and choosing how the data asset will be used.