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Article 31 – Statistics and data collection The Australian Bureau of Statistics Personal Safety Survey does not disaggregate by disability, and is not administered in institutional residential settings. The experiences of individuals living in these settings, as well as those requiring communication support, are thus excluded by this survey. The Disability, Ageing and Carers survey relies on carers and support workers to answer on behalf of people with disability The Australian Bureau of Statistics should modify its research methodology, sampling techniques and research design to ensure that people with disability are comprehensively included in the collection of data. Administrative data collected by services, institutional settings and the police should disaggregate by disability to help form a baseline of information about violence levels against older people with disability.
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