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4102.0 - Australian Social Trends, March Quarter 2012  
Previous ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 04/04/2012   
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Download the LATEST issue in full of Australian Social Trends March 2012 or see the individual articles below.

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Life on 'Struggle Street': Australians in low economic resource households
This article looks at the characteristics of people in households with both relatively low income and relatively low wealth.
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Duration: 10:09 min, filesize: 4.5MB,
updated monthly, download transcript
Life after Homelessness
This article presents a comparison of people who have been homeless in the last 10 years with those who have never been homeless.


Love Me Do
This article examines the trends in marriage, de facto relationships and divorce over the last twenty years.
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Duration: 8:34 min, filesize: 3.5MB,
updated monthly, download transcript

Disability and Work
This article looks at the characteristics of working-age people with disability and their involvement in the labour force.
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Duration: 7:15 min, filesize: 3.0MB,
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Download the LATEST Australian Social Trends indicators below:

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Please reply to social.reporting@abs.gov.au

Australian Social Trends includes national and state summary indicator sets across several broad areas of social concern. Two of nine indicator sets were released in September. You can download all the Excel spreadsheets below.
December 2011
Family and community
Housing
Economic resources
Work		June 2011
Population
Education and training
Other areas of social concern
September 2011
Health
International comparisons

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