Technical Report 2, 2014: The Number and Characteristics of Parents with Intellectual Disability from Centrelink Income Support Administrative Data

Abstract

This report reports the situation of parents with intellectual disability compared to parents with other disabilities and non-disabled parents in a national administrative data set. Compared with other Australian parents, parents with intellectual disability were more likely to be caring for a child with disability, more likely to be in public housing and more likely to live in the Northern Territory.