Change log registry

Overview

The purpose of this document is to provide the list of changes affecting the data across Ten to Men releases. The scope of this document outlines Information at the variable level where data corrections have been made and provides a description of the change and related impact to other data products, such as data frequencies, data user guide etc.

The information provided in this document covers the corrections made in the data values, code frames, renaming of variables and/or labels and the impacted data products due to the changes. The list will not cover detailed information on any changes made with the metadata.

Change Log Registry updates

Ten to Men data

Periodically a new release of the Ten to Men datasets will be generated as additional information becomes available after each data collection wave. The releases are numbered in sequential order and a new Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is minted.

There have been 8 releases of data:

• Release 1.0 was issued by the University of Melbourne and contained data from Wave 1 only.
• Release 2.0 was also issued by the University of Melbourne. It contained data from both Wave 1 and Wave 2, as well as a respondent dataset.
• Release 2.1 was issued by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) and comprised of updated Wave 1 and Wave 2 datasets. Relevant data from the respondent dataset was included in these datasets and it is no longer available as a separate dataset.
• Release 3.0 was issued by AIFS and contained data from Wave 1, Wave 2 and Wave 3.
• Release 4.0 was also issued by AIFS, and contained data from Wave 1, Wave 2, Wave 3 and Wave 4.
• Release 4.0.1 was issued by AIFS and contained some minor corrections and updates to data from Wave 1, Wave 2, Wave 3, Wave 4.
• Release 4.1 was issued by AIFS and contained data from the Sample Top Up.
• Release 5.0 was issued by AIFS, and contained data from Wave 1, Wave 2, Wave 3, Wave 4, Wave 5, and the Sample Top-Up.

Acknowledgements

Ten to Men: The Australian Longitudinal Study on Male health is the first large-scale, nationally representative, longitudinal study to focus exclusively on investigating and improving the health and wellbeing of males in Australia. It is also the largest longitudinal study of male health in the world.

Ten to Men was commissioned and is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (formerly the Department of Health) to inform the Nation Male Health Policy. The study was initially conducted by the University of Melbourne (UoM) who released datasets, including data documentation, for Wave 1 and Wave 2. Roy Morgan Research (RM) undertook the data collection and initial data processing for these 2 waves.

After a competitive tender process in 2017, the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) was awarded with the responsibility to conduct Waves 3 and 4. Since then, AIFS has updated the Wave 1 and Wave 2 datasets, including data documentation.

In 2020, the study team re-evaluated and revised the survey content and methodology to enable contactless interviewing for Wave 3. The online survey went live in July 2020, with data collection concluding in February 2021.

Minimal changes, both in terms of the survey content and the data collection method, occurred between Wave 3 and Wave 4. The Wave 4 online survey data collection period was from August 2022 to December 2022.

Due to attrition of the original sample, a top-up of the sample was undertaken, with empanelment occurring at Wave 5.

Wave 5 of Ten to Men was conducted from August 2024 to March 2025. In addition to participants from the original cohort recruited in 2013/14, this wave included the Sample Top-Up cohort, recruited between 2022 and 2024, participating in a wave for the first time. Additional recruitment was also undertaken during this period, and those participants are included in the Wave 5 dataset.

The Social Research Centre (SRC) was contracted to undertake the fieldwork component for Waves 3 and 4, the Sample Top Up and Wave 5 of the study.