This statistical report for the Childcare and School Teacher Survey provides a summary of the data collected in the survey conducted as part of the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study. The purpose of this report is to provide a useful reference point for policy officers, frontline workers, teachers and researchers.

In this paper the authors investigate the changing characteristics of working age women, focusing on their financial independence. They combine an examination of policy and institutional changes that occurred in Australia during the 1980s and 1990s with an analysis of income survey microdata for the years 1982 and 1996-97. They argue that demographic changes (relating...