Research snapshot Mar 2022
Looking back, looking forward
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Looking back, looking forward presents a summary of findings on how Australian families experienced 2021 and their hopes for 2022.
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Research snapshot Mar 2022
Looking back, looking forward presents a summary of findings on how Australian families experienced 2021 and their hopes for 2022.
Facts and figures Mar 2023
Figures around marriages in Australia: marriage rate, age at first marriage, religious and civil weddings, and more.
Family Matters article Dec 2014
Family Matters article about measuring socio-economic status of women
Media release Jun 2023
A new report by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) has found that young people are increasingly living with their parents well into their late teens and early twenties.
Research report Sep 2021
Data access and usage terms and procedures
Research report Dec 2021
This report presents findings from the most extensive study on elder abuse in Australia to date.
Research snapshot Dec 2021
This report summarises the findings of a nationally representative survey of 7,000 people aged 65 and over living in community dwellings.
Media release May 2023
A new report by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) has found that women are increasingly remaining employed when they take time off to have a baby, demonstrating the uptake of parental leave in recent years.
Media release Jul 2021
New research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies shows one in five Australian women changed their plans of having children because of COVID-19, and one in seven women indicated that COVID-19 likely impacted on when they would have children, with the majority of this cohort (92%) choosing to delay having children.
Facts and figures Jul 2023
This research snapshot outlines some key changes in the population, households and families of Australia over the last four decades, with some of the trends going back before this time. This research snapshot is mainly based on Australian censuses.