Statistics and Indicators

21.3% of respondents to the 2019 ACT General Health Survey reported that they had experienced discrimination or been treated unfairly by others in the past 12 months. Of these, 10.8% indicated that they experienced discrimination all/most of the time in the past year, 34.5% indicated that they experienced it some of the time, 42.2% indicated that they experienced it a little of the time and 12.5% indicated that it happened only once.

Note: The indicator shows self-reported data collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). Estimates were weighted to adjust for differences in the probability of selection among respondents and were benchmarked to the estimated residential population using the latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates.

Respondents to the 2019 ACT General Health Survey were aged 18 years and over. Persons includes male, female, other sex and refused sex respondents.

Statistically significant differences are difficult to detect for smaller jurisdictions such as the Australian Capital Territory. Sometimes, even large apparent differences may not be statistically significant. This is particularly the case in breakdowns of small populations because the small sample size means that there is not enough power to identify even large differences as statistically significant.