Mapping Social Cohesion Survey, 2021

The Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s Mapping Social Cohesion study provides a series of detailed surveys on social cohesion, immigration and other topical social issues in Australia. The surveys provide a key source of information to understand patterns and change in the perceptions, attitudes and experiences of Australians across society and within social and demographic groups. The 2021 survey is the fifteenth national survey that the Scanlon Foundation
has conducted since 2007 – and the
third during the pandemic. The survey
is administered on the Social Research
Centre’s Life In AustraliaTM (LinA) panel,
Australia’s first and only national
probability-based online panel. The 2021 survey employed a questionnaire comprising 95 substantive and 21
demographic questions in ten modules. The sample included 3,572 respondents. This year, a new product was added: The Australian Cohesion Index. Developed using funding from the Department of Home Affairs, this Index will be published every two years, and combines the data contained in this Mapping Social Cohesion Survey dataset with objective indicators from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and other sources. The objective data is contained in the Mapping Social Cohesion 2021 report.