Service usage and service gaps during the COVID-19 pandemic
Author/editor: Biddle, N & Gray, M
Year published: 2020
The aim of this paper is to analyse the level and distribution of service needs during the peak of the COVID-19 infection period in Australia – roughly mid-March to mid-May 2020. We show that the greatest rate of unmet need was for issues related to domestic and family violence; drug and alcohol…
The experience of Asian-Australians during the COVID-19 pandemic: Discrimination and wellbeing
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M & Yung Lo, J
Year published: 2020
There is a strong potential for people from an Asian-ethnicity background in Australia to have been particularly impacted by the spread of COVID-19. This could be because they are held responsible for the spread of the virus around the world, or because of their demographic characteristics and…
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…