Australian Social Trends - Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Social Trends (AST) podcasts bring you short, easy listening highlights from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' latest release of the AST publication. Each quarterly release of AST contains several in depth articles, which cover many broad areas of social concern such as population, health, work and housing just to name a few. We aim to do this in an interesting and easy to understand way. Other aims of AST are to address current and perennial social concerns and to provide answers to key social questions. Each podcast will focus in upon the highlights from a different article.

E15 - Hitting the books: Characteristics of higher education students

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the characteristics of students enrolled at tertiary institutes

10-03
09:40

E14 - Same-sex couples

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the characteristics of same-sex couples in Australia

09-09
09:38

E13 - Young adults: Then and now

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the characteristics of 18-34 year olds in 1976 and 2011

08-12
08:17

E12 - The average Australian

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the characteristics of the average Australian

06-25
09:57

E11 - People identified as having dementia or Alzheimer's disease

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the characteristics of people identified as having dementia or Alzheimer's disease in the 2009 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Caring

06-11
08:12

E10 - Australian farming and farmers?

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast looks at the business of farming and the characteristics of Australian farmers.

12-21
09:08

E09 - Household energy use and costs

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast looks at Australian household energy use and costs, and what people are doing to reduce their energy consumption.

11-28
07:20

E08 - Is life in Australia getting better?

Australians have a higher income, an increased life expectancy, and are better educated compared with a decade ago. But, the number of animals and plants which are endangered has increased over the last ten years.

10-09
07:53

E07 - Right person for the job

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast looks at employed people aged 20-64 years with a qualification, and the relevance of their highest level qualification for their current employment.

10-05
07:04

E06 - Sexually transmissible infections

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast considers notification rates of major STIs by age and sex.

09-03
08:18

E05 - Child's play

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast looks at participation in organised sport or dancing for children, by selected characteristics relative to an average or typical situation.

07-25
09:36

E04 - Children with a disability

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the 'Children with a disability ' article from the June 2012 AST publication. It discusses the prevalence of disability among children aged 0-14 years, and the types of disability most common among children.

06-26
08:31

E03 - Love Me Do

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the 'Love Me Do' article from the March 2012 AST publication. It examines trends in marriage, de facto relationships and divorce over the last twenty years.

05-30
08:34

E02 - Life on 'Struggle Street'

This Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the 'Life on Struggle Street' article from the March 2012 AST publication. It looks at the characteristics of people in households with both relatively low income and relatively low wealth.

04-26
10:09

E01 - Disability and Work

This first Australian Social Trends (AST) podcast discusses the 'Disability and Work' article from the March 2012 AST publication. Are many people with disability engaged in work? If so, in what sort of jobs and how do their labour force characteristics differ from those without disability?

03-28
07:15

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