Resources
Australian Resources
General Resources
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
- ABS Labour Force Surveys
- Consumer Price Index
- Income distribution & household expensitures
- Australian Social Trends
- Australian Economic Indicators
- Year Book Australia
- Measures of Australia's Progress
- Reserve Bank Statistics
- Parliamentary Library Publications
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Online Data
- Australia's Health (Publication home page)
- Australia's Welfare (Publication home page)
- Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
- Disability Policy Sources for Evidence, SPRC 2008 (PDF) (184 Kb) (Also available in Rich Text Format)
Government Information
- Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Australian Government Department of Families, Housing Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
- Australian Government Department of Families, Housing Community Services and Indigenous Affairs: Research Publications
- Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
- Australian Government Directory
- Australian Institute of Family Studies
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Australian Social Inclusion Board
- Centrelink
- Guide to Social Security: Current and Historic Rates
- The South Australian Social Inclusion Initiative
- Social Inclusion Strategy, Tasmania
University Departments and Research Centres
University of New South Wales
- Centre for Refugee Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Disability Studies and Research Centre, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Journalism and Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- National Centre for HIV Social Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Centre for Pensions and Superannuation, Australian School of Business
- Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research, Australian School of Business
- Centre for Applied Economic Research, Australian School of Business
- Centre for Social Impact, a partnership between the Business Schools of the University of New South Wales, the University of Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Western Australia.
- Australian School of Taxation (Atax), Faculty of Law
- Australasian Legal Information Institute, Faculty of Law
- Social Justice Project, Faculty of Law
Australian National University
- The Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ADRSI)
- Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
- Centre for Economic Policy Research, (Discussion Paper Series)
- Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis, and Research Centre
Curtin University
Griffith University
- Griffith Institute for Social and Behavioural Research
- Centre for Governance and Public Policy
- Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing
Macquarie University
RMIT University
University of Canberra
University of Melbourne
- Centre for Public Policy
- Department of Economics
- Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
- HILDA Survey Annual Reports
University of Newcastle
University of Queensland
University of South Australia
Professional Bodies
Think Tanks/Lobby Groups
- Australian Council of Social Service
- The Australia Institute
- Australian Fabians
- Centre for Independent Studies
- Centre for Policy Development
- Committee for the Economic Development of Australia
- COTA National Seniors
- Evatt Foundation
- Institute for Public Affairs
- Menzies Research Centre
- National Welfare Rights Network (NWRN):
- NWRN links
- per capita
- Retirement & Aged Care in Australia
International Resources
- Luxembourg Income Study
- Luxembourg Wealth Study
- International Association for Research in Income and Wealth
- International Sociological Association: Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy RC19
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- OECD: Social and Welfare Issues
- OECD: Social Expenditure statistics
- OECD: Family Database
- OECD: Benefits and Wages: Statistics
- OECD:Society at a Glance: Social Indicators
- OECD: Social and Employment Working Papers
- OECD: Minimum wages and gross earnings of full-time employees
- OECD: Pensions at a Glance Indicators
- OECD Economics Department Working Papers
- OECD: List of worldwide statistical sources
- OECD Tax database
- World Bank
- World Bank: Data
- Asian Development Bank
- Inter-American Development Bank
- International Monetary Fund
- UNICEF
- UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
- UNICEF Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities
International organisations
Social protection/social security
- ISSA - the International Social Security Association
- ILO - Social protection
- Social Protection & Labor at World Bank
- Social Protection at the Asian Development Bank
- NOSOSCO - Nordic Social-Statistical Committee
Disability
- WHO - International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
- Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network
- European Union, People with disability
- United Nations, Persons with Disabilities
- ILO, Disability and Work
- Council of Europe, Integration of People with Disabilities
- Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Disability
Employment
Other
- UN Statistics Division - Demographic and social statistics
- UN Population Division
- UN Human Development - Report & Data (UNDP)
- UN Economic Commission for Europe
- UN Economic Commission for Europe: Gender Programme
- Council of Europe - Directorate General of Social Cohesion
Ageing and Pensions
- International Network of Pensions Regulators and Supervisors (INPRS)
- Pensions Reform
- Topic guide- pensions research
International – specific region or countries
For other international resources including European and Asian organisations, research centres and specific country information please download 'resource file (PDF) (128 Kb)'.






