Australian Child Wellbeing Project, 2014

The Australian Child Wellbeing Project (ACWP) is a child-centred study in which young people’s perspectives have been used to design and conduct Australia’s first major nationally representative and internationally comparable survey of wellbeing among young people aged 9-14 years. Particular attention was given to understanding the perspectives of seven groups of young people with specific experiences and needs that may have a bearing on their wellbeing: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people, culturally and linguistically diverse young people, young people with disability, young carers, young people in regional and remote Australia, materially disadvantaged young people, and young people in out-of-home care. The survey aimed to benchmark young people's wellbeing in Australia, provide the basis for international comparison of their wellbeing, and provide information to contribute to the development of effective services for young people’s healthy development. The survey instrument includes questions that are comparable with the international Health Behaviour in School Aged Children study (www.hbsc.org) and the international Children's World's study (www.isciweb.org). The ACWP survey was dstributed to a national probability sample of students in Years 4, 6 and 8 and was successfully completed during Term 3 2014 in 180 schools across Australia, with final sample of 5440 students. Please refer to the project website for more details: http://www.australianchildwellbeing.com.au<br><br>Methodology<br>Sampling Procedure: Multi-stage stratified random sample<br>Data Kind: Survey data<br>Response Rate: 12.3 percent (39.4 percent of schools, and 31.1 percent of students within those schools). See Technical Report Section 4 for further details.<br><br><br>Date coverage: 2014<br>Location: Australia