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Bearing the Burden of Unemployment - Unequally. A Study of Australian Households in 1981

dc.contributor.author Bradbury, Bruce en_US
dc.contributor.author Garde, Pauline en_US
dc.contributor.author Vipond, Joan en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T16:13:11Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T16:13:11Z
dc.date.issued 1985 en_US
dc.description.abstract In 1983 for the first time, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released a sample of selected information from individual records from the 1981 census. This report analyses these data. It is based upon the Household Sample File of the 1981 Census. By linking information on individuals within households, it was possible to analyse the incidence and impact of unemployment within households and to show how concentrated they were. The report has five chapters. The first introduces the topic of the concentration of unemployment in households and outlines why it is important. It also discusses the relevance to today of data based upon the situation in 1981. Chapter 2 presents the main statistics on the level of unemployment, on how many households were affected and on the types of families who lived in them. It shows how many unemployed people were in households with a multiple incidence of unemployment. In a more detailed analysis of the last topic, the relationships of unemployed people to each other within households are examined. Chapter 3 explores incomes and unemployment. It compares average income levels within the households of employed and unemployed people. Chapter 4 links data about young people who lived at home with information about their parents. It uses the logit regression technique to analyse first, the high youth unemployment rates among sole-parent families and second, the association of parents' and children's characteristics and unemployment probabilities of young people who lived with both parents. Chapters 2 to 4 contain the main results of the report. Inevitably, because of the nature of the data source, they contain many tables and references to fairly complex statistical techniques. In general, the chapters contain tables of data and the results of statistical analysis. As far as possible, descriptions of the procedures used and discussions of the statistical significance of the results have been confined to footnotes and appendices. Chapters 2 to 4 end with summaries of the main results contained within them. Chapter 5 summarises the whole report focussing on the most important results. It outlines the relevance of these results to current policy debates. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 0858233878 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/45303
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher Social Welfare Research Centre en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Reports and Proceedings en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other Inequality en_US
dc.subject.other Unemployment en_US
dc.subject.other Australian Households en_US
dc.title Bearing the Burden of Unemployment - Unequally. A Study of Australian Households in 1981 en_US
dc.type Working Paper en
dcterms.accessRights open access
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/988
unsw.publisher.place Sydney en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofworkingpapernumber 53 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Bradbury, Bruce, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Garde, Pauline, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Vipond, Joan, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school Social Policy Research Centre *
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