This snapshot presents an overview of the health expenditure of households in Australia, focusing on medical care and health costs. This article is based mainly on data from the 2003–04 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Household Expenditure Survey (HES) and the 2004–05 ABS National Health Survey (NHS). HES data shows net household costs i.e. out-of-pocket...

This publication presents results from the 2006-07 Family Characteristics and Transitions Survey (FCTS) and compares them to results from the 2003 and 1997 Family Characteristics Surveys (FCS), providing information about changing patterns of family and household composition in contemporary Australia. Information on family transitions such as relationship history, relationship expectations, children born and fertility expectations...

This report examines health literacy using information from the 2006 Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALLS). The ALLS provides information on the knowledge and skills of 15 to 74 year olds in the following four domains: prose literacy, document literacy, numeracy and problem solving. A fifth domain measuring health literacy was produced as a...

Australian Social Trends 2008 is the 15th edition of an annual series that presents information on contemporary social issues and areas of public policy concern, and describes aspects of Australian society, and how these are changing over time. Australian Social Trends 2008 is the 15th edition of an annual series that presents information on contemporary...

This publication presents national crime statistics relating to victims of a selected range of offences that have been recorded by police. These statistics provide indicators of the level and nature of recorded crime victimisation in Australia and a basis for measuring change over time. As not all crimes are reported to or recorded by police...