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SOCIAL CONDITIONS STATISTICS

OBJECTIVES

The Social Conditions Program provides statistical leadership, standards development and information for a broad picture of the economic and social wellbeing of the Australian population. It provides statistics covering a range of topics including income; expenditure; wealth; housing; homelessness; superannuation; families; gender; time use; volunteering; ageing and carers.

The program provides design, development, data collection and processing services to support the Growing up in Australia Study (Longitudinal Study of Australian Children), in partnership with the Department of Social Services and the Australian Institute of Family Studies.

The program’s statistics are used to support policy development, program delivery and program evaluation of key government agencies involved in social security; taxation; housing; homelessness; community and family services; and issues related to older people; children; youth; men and women.


OUTPUTS

The program produces a range of outputs including: frameworks and standards; information development plans; statistical products; information/ technical papers; guides and analytical articles.

The main outputs of the program are:

• from the Survey of Income and Housing, and the Household Expenditure Survey: Household Income and Income Distribution, Australia (cat. no. 6523.0); Household Expenditure Survey, Australia: Summary of Results (cat. no. 6530.0); Household Wealth and Wealth Distribution, Australia (cat. no. 6554.0); Housing Occupancy and Costs, Australia (cat. no. 4130.0); Housing Mobility and Conditions, Australia (cat. no. 4130.0.55.002); and Government Benefits, Taxes and Household Income (cat. no. 6537.0)
• from the General Social Survey: a profile of the socio-economic characteristics of Australia’s adult population with data on a range of social dimensions of the community, published in General Social Survey: Summary Results, Australia (cat. no. 4159.0)
• from the Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers: Caring in the Community, Australia, 2009 (cat. no. 4436.0)
• the six monthly Gender Indicators, Australia (cat. no. 4125.0)
• from monthly population survey components: Family Characteristics and Transitions, Australia (cat. no. 4442.0), and Pregnancy and Employment Transitions, Australia (cat. no. 4913.0)
• from the Census of Population and Housing: Estimating Homelessness, 2011 (cat. no. 2049.0)
• annual information on registered marriages and divorces granted in Marriages and Divorces, Australia (cat. no. 3310.0).

• provide support to the 2016 Census of Population and Housing, in particular the development of the Homelessness Enumeration Strategy
• update and publish statistical standards relating to families, carers, income and housing (from late 2014)
• develop and publish results from: 2015-16 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (from mid 2017) and 2016 Personal Safety Survey (from mid 2017)
• publish results from: the 2013-14 cycle of Survey of Income and Housing (from mid 2015); the 2015 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers, Caring in the Community results (from early 2017) and the 2014 General Social Survey (from mid 2015).