Youth Allowance and the Financial Position of Young Australians
type="main" xml:lang="en"> This article uses data that follow young Australians to their mid-20s to assess how their views of their financial position change as their circumstances change. Full-time students in receipt of Youth Allowance are the least satisfied about their financial position, even among other students, and experience more financial ‘stress’-related incidents than other young people. Little of these differences from other groups seem to be a consequence of the receipt of Youth Allowance. Furthermore, the differences do not translate into recipients having lower levels of life satisfaction, unlike young people in receipt of other forms of government income support.
The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth: 20 Years and Beyond
The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) follow several cohorts of young Australians as they move through secondary school, into further study, work and other destinations. The LSAY datasets provide an evidence‐based capacity for sophisticated exploration of policy and research questions through insights into individual changes, transitions and trajectories across the life‐course of young Australians. This article aims to provide an update on the progress of LSAY, including its history, evolution of the sample, sample maintenance activities, updates to the information collected, developments to the survey, the many uses that have been made of the data and possible enhancements.
Local public health agency performance and community health status.
This study describes the results of an analysis of the relationship between local public health agency performance and health outcomes. Findings support the model that local public health agency performance affects community health status, and depending on the outcome, performance contributions vary. New hypotheses are offered that could help determine how system performance affects health outcomes.