Whether has cancer and heart disease (COCNHDP)

This variable describes whether a person has reported having both cancer (including remission) and heart disease (including heart attack or angina).

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 ‘Cancer (including remission)’ and ‘Heart disease (including heart attack or angina)’ they are coded to 1 ‘Has cancer and heart disease’. 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 cancer and heart disease’.

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 cancer (including remission) (HCANP)
• Whether has heart disease (including heart attack or angina) (HHEDP)

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