Tom Wilson is a Principal Research Fellow in the Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University. His research includes demographic projections, subnational demographic change, household change, migration estimation and analysis, indirect estimation, very elderly population trends, Indigenous demography, and LGBT demography.
Fiona Shalley is a data scientist and Research Fellow netherlands rcs data in the Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University. Her research interests include the demography of socially constructed population groups, and the use and communication of population data.
Tom and Fiona used the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, the second Australian Study of Health and Relationships (ASHR2), and the ABS General Social Survey (GSS), as well as figures from the 2016 Australian Census.
The Australian Census is conducted every five years, unlike the UK census which is conducted every ten years.
HILDA has similarities to the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society.
ASHR2 has similarities to the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles.
The GSS is conducted by the Australian Bureau of statistics every four years and covers a range of topics including.