The experience of volunteers during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
Author/editor: Biddle, N & Gray, M
Year published: 2020
Australia and the world are currently experiencing a public health and economic shock that may end up being larger than any experienced since the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 and the Great Depression of the 1930s respectively. The spread of the Coronavirus and associated disease (COVID-19) around…
The initial impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Edwards, B, Gray, M & Sollis, K
Year published: 2020
This paper provides a summary of the initial impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed based on data from the 33rd ANUpoll which collected information from 3,155 Australians over the period 14-27 April 2020. It is the first longitudinal survey data on the impact of COVID-19 in Australia, with…
Tracking outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic (August 2020) – Divergence within Australia
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Edwards, B, Gray, M & Sollis, K
Year published: 2020
In order to monitor the impacts of COVID-19, the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods has established a COVID-19 impact monitoring survey program. The first wave of data collection occurred in April 2020, during the peak of the first wave of infections in Australia. This was followed by a…
Tracking outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic (May 2020) - Job and income losses halted and confidence rising
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Edwards, B, Gray, M & Sollis, K
Year published: 2020
In order to monitor the impacts of COVID-19, the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods has established a COVID-19 impact monitoring survey program. Data collected using Life in AustraliaTM is still the only longitudinal survey of a large, representative sample of Australians with information…
Tracking outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic (November 2020) – Counting the costs of the COVID-recession
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Edwards, B, Gray, M & Sollis, K
Year published: 2020
Given the substantial improvement in the Australian economy and easing of restrictions, it is an opportune time to take stock and reflect on the economic and wellbeing costs of the pandemic over the past nine months. Between the 9th and 23rd of November, the Social Research Centre on behalf of the…
Tracking outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic (October 2020) – Reconvergence
Author/editor: Biddle, N & Gray, M
Year published: 2020
From mid-late October, the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods and the Social Research Centre conducted a survey of a little over 3,000 adult Australians, as part of the longitudinal COVID Impact Monitoring Survey Program. We found that anxiety and worry due to COVID-19 has continued to…
Big Australia, small Australia, diverse Australia: Australia’s views on population
Author/editor: Biddle, N.
Year published: 2019
Alongside their level of economic development, countries are often defined by their population size. Australia, with a population of around 25 million, was the 54th largest country by population in 2018 and around the upper-middle part of the distribution of countries.1 Countries grow through a…