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The 1993 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers CURF contains data on 4,816 residents in 512 health establishments (type 3 special dwellings) and 42,060 persons from 15,717 households in private dwellings and other special dwellings. The data include capital city and rest-of-state identifiers, but no State/Territory identifiers; household, family and income unit types; index decile of relative socio-economic disadvantage; age, sex, marital status, birthplace, year of arrival in Australia, birthplace of parents and main language spoken at home; labour force details, occupation, student status, educational achievement, employment and education limitations, details of income and source of income; tenure and type of dwelling structure; disability status, disabling conditions and severity of handicap; need for and receipt of help for a range of daily life activities; level of and reasons for unmet need; types of providers of formal and informal care; access to transport; emergency arrangements; participation in community activities; relationships of principal carers to recipients, type of care undertaken, availability of training and support for carers, and impact on carers of the caring role.
More information about the CURF may be available on request from ABS.
This page last updated 4 July 2008
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