Every policy wonk in Canberra will be rifling through the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia report from the University of Melbourne looking for data to support political point scoring.
It’s wonkery heaven—a new HILDA that’s jam packed with information on child poverty, wealth gaps and household debt levels, and just in time to generate a brisk trade in jibes over policy during the fast-approaching federal election campaign.
HILDA is Australia’s only large-scale, nationally representative research survey of Australian households. It uses annual interviews with 12,000 households to build up a detailed picture of how lives are changing over time. University of Melbourne researchers will now use the data to produce more detailed reports on specific areas of social and economic policy.
This article on Research Professional News is only available to Research Professional or Pivot-RP users.
Research Professional users can log in and view the article via this link
Pivot-RP users can log in and view the article via this link.