The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) receives and aggregates data from over 1,800 specialist homelessness services agencies (SHS) across Australia on a monthly basis.
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WGEA is a Commonwealth government agency established by the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012. The Agency's purpose under the Act is to: promote and improve gender equality (including equal remuneration between women and men) in employment and in the workplace support employers to remove barriers to the full and equal participation of women in the workforce promote, amongst employers, the elimination of discrimination on the basis of gender in relation to employment matters (including in relation to family and caring responsibilities) foster workplace consultation between employers and employees on issues concerning gender equality in employment and in the workplace improve the productivity and competitiveness of Australian business through the advancement of gender equality in employment and in the workplace. The Act requires private and Commonwealth public sector employers with 100 or more employees to report annually against six gender equality indicators. Employers with 500 or more employees must also have a policy for each of the 6 gender equality indicators. Those with 500 or more direct employees also need to select and achieve or improve against gender equality targets. WGEA works work with employers to help them comply with the reporting requirements under the Act. Read more about our legislation on the WGEA legislation page. We are committed to promoting and contributing to understanding, acceptance and public debate of gender equality issues in the workplace. WGEA employees regularly speak at events on workplace gender issues and work with business, academics, equal opportunity networks and women’s groups on like-minded projects.
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Building a New Life in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants (BNLA) aims to identify factors which help or hinder positive settlement outcomes. BNLA follows 1,509 humanitarian migrating units who arrived in Australia or had their permanent visas granted in the six months between May and December 2013. Participants include offshore visa holders who arrived in Australia holding a permanent humanitarian visa and onshore visa holders who received their permanent protection visa between May and December 2013. Wave 1 took place from October 2013 to March 2014 interviewing 2,399 principal and secondary applicants. The first five waves of data collection were conducted annually. Waves 1, 3 and 5 interviews were conducted face-to-face and waves 2 and 4 interviews were conducted by telephone. Wave 6 was conducted 5 years after wave 5, between January and July 2023. Wave 6 data was collected online and face-to-face. The survey and participant materials were translated into 14 languages in wave 1, 9 languages in waves 2 - 5 and 5 languages in Wave 6. Interviews were conducted by bilingual interviewers; some interviews also used interpreters (interviews were conducted in nineteen languages in total in waves 1 and 2, thirteen languages in Wave 3, eleven languages in Wave 4, and ten languages in Wave 5 and seven languages in wave 6). For waves 2 and 4, shorter telephone interviews omit some of the questions asked in the longer face-to-face interviews. Topics covered by the study include: demographics, immigration experience, housing and neighbourhood, English language proficiency, education and training, employment and income, health, self-sufficiency, community support, personal resources and life satisfaction, and life in Australia. Additional modules include the child module in Wave 3, childcare and gender roles from Wave 5 and the COVID-19 and youth module in Wave 6. Researchers interested in using this data should note: (1) BNLA does not include data about migrants in the family and skilled streams of the permanent Migration Program; (2) BNLA only includes humanitarian migrants who arrived/were granted a visa during a specific time period; (3) Analysis at the state level is not possible.
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Contact Person: LongitudinalStudies@dss.gov.au
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