This report provides a summary of the key issues and trends facing Australian families. It examines a selection of key topics, including fertility, caring responsibilities, economic wellbeing of families, health of family relationships and how Australians are balancing work and family responsibilities. The accompanying snapshot provides a summary of key data from the report and...

This report provides a summary of measures which relate to the fourteen headline dimensions of progress presented in the Bureau's Measures of Australia's Progress (MAP) project. It presents the headline indicators (where a headline indicator is available) at the national level, and a brief discussion about the measure and associated trends.

There are only two ways a country can sustain increases in productivity over time: through enhancing its skill base or by innovating more successfully. New figures reveal a very patchy performance, write Paul Jenson and Elizabeth Webster.

This paper provides data on the four separate summary indexes derived from the 2006 Census of Population and Housing.

This paper presents a number of tables and charts that allow comparisons to be made between individual Australian states and territories in terms of their performance across a wide range of social and economic indicators. Each table has data for the last five years, while each chart presents data for the latest year that data...