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A Carer Payment is a payment to a person providing full-time personal care or supervision to a person with a disability, medical condition or who is frail aged. Carer Payment also allows maximum opportunities to participate in society through respite provisions and training, education and employment assistance.
At 1 June 2001, Carer Payment was made to 9.7 per 1,000 persons in the local government area of Break O'Day. Tasmania as a whole recorded 4.0 Carer Payment recipients per 1,000 persons.
RECIPIENTS OF CARER PAYMENT, Tasmanian local government areas(a)(b) - 1 June 2001 |
|
 | | Recipients | Estimated resident population -
as at 30 June 2001(c) |
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Local government area |
no.
|
crude rate(d)
(per 1,000 persons)
|
no.
|
median age
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| Greater Hobart-Southern | | | | |
| Brighton | 97 | 7.5 | 12,915 | 29 |
| Central Highlands | 16 | 7.1 | 2,316 | 39 |
| Clarence | 163 | 3.3 | 49,594 | 38 |
| Derwent Valley | 53 | 5.7 | 9,373 | 36 |
| Glamorgan/Spring Bay | 23 | 5.7 | 3,989 | 45 |
| Glenorchy | 246 | 5.6 | 44,003 | 37 |
| Hobart | 60 | 1.3 | 47,446 | 36 |
| Huon Valley | 65 | 4.7 | 13,846 | 36 |
| Kingborough | 52 | 1.8 | 29,379 | 37 |
| Sorell | 52 | 4.7 | 11,004 | 36 |
| Southern Midlands | 31 | 5.4 | 5,730 | 36 |
| Tasman | 5 | 2.2 | 2,259 | 42 |
| Total | 863 | 3.7 | 231,854 | 37 |
Northern | | | | |
| Break O'Day | 56 | 9.7 | 5,781 | 43 |
| Dorset | 23 | 3.1 | 7,339 | 37 |
| Flinders | - | - | 887 | 43 |
| George Town | 28 | 4.3 | 6,491 | 36 |
| Launceston | 269 | 4.3 | 62,335 | 36 |
| Meander Valley | 68 | 3.8 | 18,066 | 36 |
| Northern Midlands | 46 | 3.8 | 11,926 | 37 |
| West Tamar | 77 | 3.8 | 20,290 | 38 |
| Total | 567 | 4.3 | 133,115 | 37 |
Mersey-Lyell | | | | |
| Burnie | 75 | 4.0 | 18,886 | 36 |
| Central Coast | 104 | 5.0 | 21,029 | 38 |
| Circular Head | 24 | 3.0 | 8,047 | 34 |
| Devonport | 133 | 5.5 | 24,257 | 38 |
| Kentish | 23 | 4.2 | 5,499 | 36 |
| King Island | - | - | 1,724 | 38 |
| Latrobe | 32 | 3.9 | 8,241 | 38 |
| Waratah/Wynyard | 65 | 4.8 | 13,627 | 37 |
| West Coast | 23 | 4.2 | 5,516 | 33 |
| Total | 480 | 4.5 | 106,826 | 37 |
Tasmania |
1,910
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4.0
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471,795
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37
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- nil or rounded to zero
(a) Data have been aggregated to local government areas from postcode data supplied by Centrelink. Consequently, some figures have been rounded.
(b) Small area data in this table has been confidentialised. Totals for Tasmania may differ to those published in Statistics - Tasmania.
(c) Source: ABS data available on request, Population by Age and Sex.
(d) This is a crude rate only. It has not been adjusted to take into account the population eligible to receive payment. Therefore, care should be taken when interpreting figures.
Source: Centrelink. |
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