Research and publications

The Department of Social Services Longitudinal Surveys Research archive (FLoSse) contains bibliographic details for research material, which uses data from one or more of the Centre’s longitudinal surveys.

Key findings

Research Summaries and Data Highlights

In addition to managing longitudinal studies, researchers from the Centre are involved in analysing the data to inform policy discussion and development.

If you would like to request research be completed and documented, on a particular topic of interest, please email NCLD@dss.gov.au

Data Highlights

Data Highlights provide brief descriptive statistics from Centre data.

Data Highlight No.1/2014: Financial Hardship in Australia by Laura Bennetts Kneebone
Data Highlight No.2/2015: Building a New Life in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants by David Marshall
Data Highlight No.3/2016: Parenting Efficacy of Parents of Indigenous Children by Deborah Kikkawa
Data Highlight No.4/2016: Strengths and Problems in Indigenous Children’s Communities by Deborah Kikkawa

Research Summaries

Research Summaries provide in-depth statistical analysis of current policy-relevant issues. They may include summaries of existing research.

Research Summary No.1/2014: Multiple Disadvantage by Deborah Kikkawa
Research Summary No.2/2015: Domestic violence in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) by Helene Shin, Helen Rogers and Vincci Law
Research Summary No.3/2015: Partner violence in the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) by Laura Bennetts Kneebone
Research Summary No.4/2015: Increased literacy scores for Indigenous children in schools using the cross-curriculum priority by Fiona Skelton
Research Summary No.5/2016: Parents’ Involvement in Education of Indigenous Children by Anastasia Sartbayeva
Research Summary No.6/2016: School/Preschool Enrolment of Indigenous Children by Peng Yu
Research Summary No.7/2016: Housing Conditions and Children’s Health by Anastasia Sartbayeva
Research Summary No.8/2016: Productive Engagement and Welfare Receipt: a Life Course Profile in Australia by Peng Yu

NCLD Workshop summary

The workshop, held in July 2015, brought together senior officers from across different portfolios and senior academics in longitudinal research.

The key priorities from the workshop were to:

Ensure the sustainability of Australia’s longitudinal data assets by encouraging a more coordinated “systems” approach to investments
Use a life course model in the design of longitudinal data sets, recognising that interactions across life domains and developing broad based datasets will enable the best understanding of lifetime wellbeing
Recognise that strong partnerships across government, academia, NGOs, and the private sector are critical for promoting the greater use, access, sharing and linkage of datasets while maintaining data security, analytical integrity and public confidence.

Statistical reports

Technical reports

LSIC Technical reports

The following documents are available on the Footprints in Time - The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) page:

Wave 6 Report on Who Am I and the Renfrew Word Finding Vocabulary Test
A Measure of Global Social and Emotional Wellbeing at Wave 1
Implications of the study design for analysis and results

BNLA Technical and scoping reports

Design Options for Building a New Life in Australia: The Longitudinal Survey of Humanitarian Migrants
Position Paper – Building a New Life in Australia: The Longitudinal Survey of Humanitarian Migrants
Key Research Questions for a Longitudinal Survey of Refugee and other Humanitarian Migrants

BNLA reports

BNLA publications

Annual reports

Conference presentations

Other recent research

Other recent publications from the Centre studies are in a number of formats such as government reports, research papers, conference presentations, journal articles and book chapters.

Last updated: 23 June 2022 - 8:54am