A quarter of the 15 million adult Australians are aged between 50 and 69. Most people think they are living the good life - married, homeowners, full-time employees earning good incomes, with kids out of the home. They can choose what they'd like to do when they retire. But is this the true picture? Simon...

The new private health insurance reforms - in particular the 30 per cent rebate and Lifetime Health Cover - were partly aimed at relieving pressures on public hospitals. Combining the use of two new models - Private Health Insurance and NSW hospitals - Agnes Walker, Richard Percival, Linc Thurecht, Jim Pearse estimate that, with the...

Ann Harding, Rachel Lloyd, Anthea Bill and Anthony King outlines new techniques used to create synthetic household microdata and demonstrates how they can be used to analyse poverty rates, the spatial impact of possible policy change, and the characteristics of the poor by geographic area.

This report presents the findings of a research project that was completed as part of the implementation of the Kobe Recommendation: Plan of Action for Women and Health. Agnes Walker, Anthea Bill and Ann Harding summarise the literature on key characteristics of leaders, the differences between male and female leaders, and an analytical framework for...

Describes the techniques used to create the synthetic small area data. It then provides some examples of how the new methods and data are being used for estimation and analysis of income, wealth and other socio-economic characteristics, as well as the spatial distribution of policy change.