HACC data collections
More detailed data on HACC-funded services are available from two distinct data
collections held by the Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and
Community Services on the extent and nature of HACC services—the HACC Service
Provision Data Collection and the HACC User Characteristics Survey.
The HACC Service Provision Data Collection contains data on all clients seen by
provider agencies over the one-month period of the survey. Surveys are generally
conducted by the States biannually, although this has not always been uniformly
implemented across all States. As a consequence, national data are not available for all
time periods. Table 5.10 presents data from November 1988 (the first collection),
November 1990, and a composite of the most recent and reliable data collected and
compiled for each State or Territory during 1991 and 1992.