Gambling participation and risk after COVID-19: analysis of a population representative longitudinal panel of Australians
Author/editor: Suomi, A, Kim, J, Hahn, M & Biddle, N
Year published: 2023
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gambling participation, and levels of gambling harm across populations during the pandemic is now addressed in a well-established body of empirical literature. This literature highlights reduction in gambling frequency and expenditure overall, but also shows…
Taking stock: Wellbeing and political attitudes in Australia at the start of the post-COVID era, January 2023
Author/editor: Biddle, N & Gray, M
Year published: 2023
The aim of this paper is to use data collected during January 2023 and Australia’s recent history to take stock of Australia’s wellbeing, as well as its attitudes towards key political and social institutions as Australia enters a post-COVID world. The data was collected by the ANU Centre for…
Economic and other wellbeing in Australia – October 2022
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M
Year published: 2022
The October 2022/23 Budget signals a shift to including a range of non-economic measures of progress and quality of life. During the COVID-19 period and into late 2022, there has been large changes in many wellbeing measures. The ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods (CSRM) has been…
Mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 period in Australia
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M & Rehill, P
Year published: 2022
In April 2020, the Social Research Centre on behalf of the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods collected the first wave of data as part of the centre’s COVID-19 Impact Monitoring Series. Since that first wave of data collection, surveys have been undertaken a further 10 times, with the most…
Ongoing disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Australia using survey data – August 2022
Author/editor: Biddle, N
Year published: 2022
On the 8th of August 2022, data collection began for the 12th wave the COVID-19 Impact Monitoring series, with a total of 3,510 responses collected between the 8th and 22nd of August. The aim of this paper is to try to understand some of the reasons why booster uptake in Australia may have stalled…
Tertiary student finances under COVID-19
Author/editor: Norton, A
Year published: 2022
Tertiary education students have three main sources of financial support – their families, the labour market, and government payments. This paper explores how COVID-19 affected these sources of student finance. Only limited information is available on family finances, but multiple datasets provide…
The experience of COVID-19 in Australia, including long-COVID – Evidence from the COVID-19 Impact Monitoring Survey Series, August 2022
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Korda, R
Year published: 2022
The aim of this paper is to describe the experience of COVID-19 in Australia, examine the factors associated with whether or not someone had COVID-19, including long-COVID, and relate this experience to broader measures of wellbeing. Data for the paper comes from the 12th wave of the COVID-19…