The median age of both mothers and fathers rose again in 2024, according to data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Beidar Cho, ABS head of demography, said: 'In 2024, the ...

For the first time, the Census recorded more than a million one parent families (1,068,268), of which four out of every five of those parents were female. As a proportion of families this is ...

In the last week did the person spend time doing unpaid domestic work for their household? Include all housework, food/drink preparation and clean-up, laundry, gardening, home maintenance and repairs, ...

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey, 2023 ...

The Relationship in Household and Social Marital Status Standards were reviewed and updated in September 2022. These updated versions reflect amendments to the Marriage Act 1961 and align them with ...

Life expectancy for males has improved at a faster rate than that for females. Around 30 years ago (1990), life expectancy at birth in Australia was 73.9 years for males and 80.1 years for females, a ...

New analysis of the Australian Health Survey (AHS) tells us whether Australians are consuming the required amount of a variety of nutrients. The Usual Nutrient Intakes release of the AHS provides ...

Media note A volunteer is someone who is over the age of 15 and, in the previous 12 months, willingly gave unpaid help, in the form of time, service or skills, through an organisation or group.

This experimental indicator is derived from Australian Taxation Office (ATO) Business Activity Statements (BAS) turnover data from monthly BAS remitters. It includes 13 of the 19 ...

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In the 2021 Census, the number of people counted as usual residents of the Northern Territory (NT) was 233,000. This was up from 229,000 in 2016. Fifty years ago, in 1971, the Census counted 72,000 ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) produces two key measures of underlying inflation – the Trimmed mean and the Weighted median. These measures, also known as ‘core’ inflation, provide an ...