Contact the relevant areas of the departments or agencies, to identify and analyse this data and determine its relevance to each policy item. Highly disaggregated data can be sensitive, and the Office for the National Data Commissioner has guidance on how to safely share data, including using five Data Sharing Principles as a risk management framework.
| Data source | Description |
|---|---|
| Gendered key facts products | The Office for Women has developed key fact sheets that include gender-disaggregated data across a number of policy areas. These are a useful starting point for finding data and can be accessed by contacting OFW-Evidence@pmc.gov.au. |
| Status of Women Report Card | The Government released a Status of Women Report Card on International Women’s Day 2023 (8 March 2023) to provide a picture of what life looks like for women in Australia. The data shows the challenges women and girls in Australia face across key areas of life; in education, economic outcomes, health, safety and wellbeing, housing, and gender norms. |
| Women’s Budget Statement 23-34 | The Women’s Budget Statement is available on the Treasury Budget Website and provides a summary and analysis of the key initiatives relating to women and gender equality. |
| Cabinet Handbook (15th edition) | Processes in the Cabinet Handbook give effect to the Government’s commitment to gender equality by elevating consideration of gender equality in policy design and decision making through gender responsive budgeting. |
| Australian Government Data | Includes data on benefit and payment recipient demographics, taxation data 2020-21 and more. Searches can be conducted by department. |
| Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW): Research and data | Various publications including on differences including distinct health and welfare needs and concerns related to their gender and biological sex men and women. |
| Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) Research | Various publications, research, as well as facts and figures relating to family, including on early childhood education and care, Child Care Subsidy and young people. |
| Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) data products including the Data Explorer | WGEA data is from non-public sector employers with 100 or more employees. Organisations report annually on six gender equality indicators including gender composition of the workforce and governing bodies, equal remuneration between men and women, availability of flexible working arrangements, and prevention of sexual harassment and discrimination. |
| ATO taxation statistics | Summary statistics as well as detailed data from tax returns. Individual classifications by sex include average and median income, net tax and superannuation account balance. |
| Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey | A longitudinal study of Australian households that collects a broad range of information. Provides valuable insight into labour market and economic outcomes, family dynamics and gender roles. |
| National Community Attitudes towards Violence Against Women Survey (NCAS) | A national population survey of Australians’ understanding of violence against women, their attitudes towards it, what influences their attitudes, and if there has been a change over time. It also gauges attitudes to gender equality and people’s preparedness to intervene when witnessing violence or disrespect towards women. |
| Australia's National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) | Research and resources concerning violence against women and their children, and its impacts across Australia’s economy, community, people’s health and wellbeing. |
| Data source | Description |
|---|---|
| Gender Indicators | Provides a summary of existing sex disaggregated data in six domains: economic security; education; health; work and family balance; safety and justice; democracy, governance and citizenship. |
| Personal Safety Survey | Collects information from men and women aged 18 years and over about the nature and extent of violence experienced since the age of 15 (Last conducted in 2016). |
| Labour Force | Provides employment and unemployment numbers, hours worked, and participation and unemployment rates by sex. Employment numbers included by full-time or part-time. |
| Labour Force, Detailed | Provides detailed monthly and quarterly labour force survey data by sex, but includes other characteristics such as marital status, age, location (capital city or state), country of birth, hours worked and duration of job search. These are available broken down by industry (based on Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC)) and occupation (based on Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO)). |
| Average Weekly Earnings | Provides average weekly earnings by characteristics such as sex, sector, industry, and state/territory. |
| Employee Earnings and Hours | Provides detailed statistics on the composition and distribution of employee earnings, hours paid for and the methods used to set employees’ pay. Data disaggregation for various groups of employees including by sex, industry, occupation and pay setting method is available. |
| Time Use | Measures and compares the volume of paid and unpaid work (including caregiving responsibilities) by sex and other characteristics. |
| Census | Allows for cross-classification of sex with a broad range of characteristics such as children, social marital status, Indigeneity, language spoken at home, relationship in household and unpaid care and work. Important source of geographically disaggregated data. |
| Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Australia | Ranks areas according to their relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage using Census data. |