Living with Disability in New Zealand: Summary
Key results from the 2001 Household Disability Survey and the 2001 Disability Survey of Residential Facilities

Prepared for Ministry of Health/Intersectoral Advisory Group, October 2004

Date of publication: February 2005

Published in February 2005 by the Ministry of Health

ISBN 0-478-25790-2
ISBN 0-478-25791-0

HP 4039


Ih 2001 Statistics New Zealand did two surveys in New Zealand about people with disability.

• The Household Disability Survey which was about day-to-day living situations and what goes on in the lives of over 7000 adults and children with disabilities.

• The Disability Survey of Residential Facilities which gathered information on over 900 adults with disability living in homes for older people and hospitals.
  

A full report on the results of these two surveys can be found in the publication Living with Disability in New Zealand.

This summary report is a shortened and simplified version of Living with Disability in New Zealand. It presents a selection of key survey results and is intended for a wide audience.

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This summary is intended to make the information in the full report more accessible to a wider audience. For this reason, it is available in hard copy, Braille, audio tape and
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You can order a copy by emailing moh@wickliffe.co.nz or calling 04 496 2277 quoting HP number 4039. Please let us know your name, your physical address and how many copies you would like.

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