Disability

• 1,464,415 people identified as requiring assistance with core activities.
• Females are slightly more likely to indicate they require assistance at 6.1 per cent compared to males at 5.5 per cent.
• 8.2 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people identified requiring assistance with core activities.
• 76.6 per cent of people identifying as requiring assistance live with family and 19.4 per cent live alone. 

Contains the first results from the 2015 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers

This release includes analysis and data cubes focusing on national level data as well as relevant explanatory material