Spatial microsimulation techniques have become an increasingly popular way of fulfilling the need for generating small-area data estimates. However, the technique also poses numerous methodological challenges, including the utilisation of two different databases simultaneously to produce...

In recent months in Australia there has been extended debate about whether the age pension, particularly with regard to single pensioners, is sufficiently high to allow older Australians to attain an acceptable standard of living. This is an important policy consideration given Australia's...

Spatial microsimulation techniques have become an increasingly popular way to fulfil the need for generating small area data estimates. Nevertheless, this technique poses numerous methodological challenges, including those that relate to fundamental differences between the multiple data sources...

This paper examines national and spatial trends in the number and proportion of children with jobless parents during the past decade. At the national level, we found that the number of dependent children living in households where no parent had a job fell from around 756,000 in 1995-96 to around...

V<sc>idyattama</sc> Y., C<sc>assells</sc> R., H<sc>arding</sc> A. and M<sc>c</sc>N<sc>amara</sc> J. Rich or poor in retirement? A small area analysis of Australian private superannuation savings in 2006 using spatial microsimulation, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Substantial differences in retirement savings exist among Australians. Little is known,...

One method of calculating small area estimates using survey data involves deriving new weights for each respondent in the survey. These new weights are derived so that the survey data sums to some known totals for a small area (from either a Census or administrative data). There are different...

Intergenerational disadvantage has been defined as “disadvantage induced by the attitudes, social circumstances or economic limitations of a person’s parents’ (Vinson, 2009,P. 1). This disadvantage could be in terms of poverty, labour force, or lack of access to opportunities that other...