Library guides: Social Work and Community Welfare: Statistics

Australian statistics

Australian Institute of Health & Welfare (AIHW)
Browse topic-specific publications, or look at the biennially released publication: Australia's Welfare.
Most of the reports include detailed data tables - look for a Data tab.
Statistics by Topic (ABS)
Publishes a wide range of statistics relating to many aspects of Australian life.
Also look at Community Profiles and Socio-Economic Indexes for Area, produced from Census data.
Australian Institute of Criminology (Cth)
Government department providing research reports and statistics on criminal justice, homicide, deaths in custody, fraud, violent crime, illicit drugs, federal offences and victims of crime.
Family Facts and Figures (Cth)
Produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is Australia’s national statistical agency and an official source of independent, reliable information. They provide key statistics on a broad range of topics including trade, finance, employment, industry, tourism, technology, housing, population and regional trends.

The ABS is also the home of Australia's census data (detailed statistics about housing and population).

MicroData & TableBuilder:

Most ABS publications can be accessed on the ABS website free of charge. However, there are sophisticated data extraction tools that assist in building more detailed data sets and are only accessible to SCU students and staff after you have registered. To register to use the tools TableBuilder and Microdata, all new users must register for an account using your SCU email address.

Register here using your SCU email address to access MicroData & TableBuilder.
Detailed information on using TableBuilder
Detailed information on using Microdata

Troubleshooting and general data services help / contact information:

Troubleshoot any TableBuilder or Microdata access and usage issues using these pages:

Southern Cross University contacts:

Microdata &TableBuilder contacts: Library Systems and Resources Team

International statistics

World Bank Data
Datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports and other resources.
OECD Social Welfare Statistics
Includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level, covering old age, survivors, and incapacity-related benefits; health, family, and active labor market programmes; and unemployment, housing, GINI, poverty, income inequality, and other social policy areas.
World Health Organization
WHO's annual World Health Statistics reports present the most recent health statistics for the WHO Member States and each edition supersedes the previous one.