Count of adults (15 years and over) with selected long-term health condition(s) in household (CALTHD)

This variable counts the number of adults aged 15 years and over in a household who reported they had at least one of the selected long-term health conditions. Selected long-term health conditions include:

• arthritis
• asthma
• cancer (including remission)
• dementia (including Alzheimer’s)
• diabetes (excluding gestational diabetes)
• heart disease (including heart attack or angina)
• kidney disease
• lung condition (including COPD or emphysema)
• mental health condition (including depression or anxiety)
• stroke

‘Any other long-term health condition(s)’ are excluded from the count.

Occupied private dwellings

This variable is derived from responses to the long-term health conditions question and the Age (AGEP) variable. It counts the number of people aged 15 years and over in a household who have marked one of the following long-term health conditions:

• arthritis
• asthma
• cancer (including remission)
• dementia (including Alzheimer's)
• diabetes (excluding gestational diabetes)
• heart disease (including heart attack or angina)
• kidney disease
• lung condition (including COPD or emphysema)
• mental health condition (including depression or anxiety)
• stroke

If all people aged 15 years or over in the household did not answer the long-term health conditions question, this variable is set to ‘Not stated’.

If some people aged 15 years or over in the household did not answer the long-term health conditions question, this variable is set to category 6, ‘Some adults in household had not stated long-term health condition’.

If a person marks only ‘Any other long-term health condition(s)’, they are not counted as having a long-term health condition in this variable. These people are counted in category 0 'No adults reported a selected long-term health condition'.

Visitor only households and other non-classifiable households are excluded. People away from the dwelling on Census Night are excluded from this variable.

This is a new variable for 2021.

Count of adults (15 years and over) with selected long-term health condition(s) in household (CALTHD) should be used carefully when comparing to other health data from within the ABS and for external organisations or agencies. Relevant definitions and response categories can differ between different statistical collections and may not match Census definitions. For more information, see Comparing ABS long-term health conditions data sources.

This variable does not have a non-response rate as it is created during Census processing by using responses from more than one question on the Census form. The proportion of dwellings where either all people in the household did not answer the long-term health conditions question, or some people in the household did not answer the long-term health conditions question, was 6.3%.

• Count of children with selected long-term health condition(s) in household (CCLTHD)
• Count of persons with selected long-term health condition(s) in household (CPLTHD)
• Count of persons with selected long-term health condition(s) in household (ranges) (CPLTHRD)
• Relationship in household (RLHP)
• Long-term health condition(s)

• National Health Survey: First results
• National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey
• Health: Census