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Housing and children's development and wellbeing: evidence from Australian data

Summary

This study builds on a recent scoping study on child development to undertake quantitative analysis of key longitudinal data sources, including the Longitudinal Survey of Indigenous Children, to understand whether housing factors play an important role in child development and wellbeing.

Project Number: 80651
Research Theme: Social_wellbeing
Project Leader: Dockery, Michael
Funding Year: 2011
Research Centre: Western Australia

Description

International studies have shown that the housing circumstances of children can have significant impacts upon their development, and that adequate housing may be an important mediating force in preventing the transmission of disadvantage from one generation to another.

This study involves analysing a range of established longitudinal data sets to understand the linkages between housing related factors and child development outcomes and wellbeing. Impacts will be analysed across three development stages: infancy/toddlerhood (0-3 years); preschool (4-5 years) and middle childhood (6-9 years).