NDIS Total Payments — methodology
Category: Government & Fiscal · Unit: AUD millions · Published quarterly
What this metric measures
Total payments made under the NDIS per quarter for participant supports and services.
Why it matters: Tracks the fiscal cost of the NDIS. Important for fiscal sustainability assessment alongside participant outcomes.
Source & provenance
- Publisher
- NDIS Quarterly Report Payments Data
- Update frequency
- quarterly
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
How the score is computed
The score is a 0–100 normalisation of the latest observation, compared to a baseline window. The traffic-light rating (RAG) reflects both the absolute level and the recent trend.
- Direction
- Context-dependent
- Trend window
- 60 months
- Baseline
- Last 10 years
Thresholds:
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"neutral": true
}See related corrections at /corrections, or the live data and chart at https://www.australiametrics.org/metric/ndis-total-payments.