LSAY Research

Work in progress

Briefing papers

  • Who takes a gap year and why?
  • Aspirations and the importance of career planning

Research reports

  • School completion: what we learn from different measures of family background
  • Do aspirations overcome multiple disadvantage?
  • How do young people fare in an economic downturn?
  • Student income support and education and training participation in Australia

Release of LSAY 2010 data

New data for the active Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) cohorts are collected annually. The data are then added to the respective data sets and lodged with the Australian Data Archive (ADA) .

LSAY data collected from the 2010 interviews for the Y03 and Y06 cohorts are now available. The latest LSAY data collected from the 2010 interviews for the Y09 cohorts will become available early in 2012. The latest LSAY data collected from the 2011 interviews for the Y03, Y06 and Y09 cohorts will become available at around September 2012.