Whether has arthritis and mental health condition (COARMHP)

This variable describes whether a person has reported having both arthritis and a mental health condition (including depression and anxiety).

All persons

This variable is derived from responses to the long-term health conditions question and aims to capture people who have specific combinations of health conditions (known as comorbidity).

Where a respondent selects ‘Arthritis’ and ‘Mental health condition (including depression and anxiety)’ they are coded to 1 ‘Has arthritis and mental health condition’. The respondent could also have other long-term health conditions, but those conditions are not recorded in this variable. All other combinations of responses, including ‘No long-term health condition’ are coded to 2 ‘Does not have arthritis and mental health condition’.

If a person has more than one specified combination of long-term health conditions, they will be captured in more than one comorbidity health variable.

This is a new variable for 2021.

If a person has more than one specified combination, they will be captured in more than one comorbidity health variable.

This variable does not have a non-response rate as it is created during Census processing by using responses from one or more questions on the Census form. For the item non-response rate for the health question, see CLTHP.

• Whether has arthritis (HARTP)
• Whether has mental health condition (including depression or anxiety) (HMHCP)

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