This paper uses new data on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES), an eight-item measure included in the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA ) Survey for the first time in 2020. It found roughly 2 million people were food insecure in Australia in 2020 and severe food insecurity is a bigger concern...

Benefits of the digital economy are evident in everyday life, but there are significant concerns that these benefits may not be appropriately reflected in official statistics. The measurement of the net benefits of new and disappearing products depends on what type of price index the statistical agency is using to deflate final demand aggregates. We...

This paper provides a typology of work arrangements and reviews how different arrangements, and especially gig activity, are captured in existing data.

This review, commissioned after equipment at two locations (Thredbo and Goulburn) failed to record the temperature when it dropped below -10.4 degrees Celsius in July 2017, found that the site hardware was unsuitable at very low temperatures.

Surveys have errors. Tax data errors are rare, but they still matter. This paper analyses measurement error in the classification of employment. We show that the true employment rate and time-invariant error rates can be identified, given access to two measures of employment with independent errors. Empirical identification requires at least two periods of data...