Family Characteristics and Transitions, Expanded Confidentialised Unit Record File
 

Microdata on the 2006-07 Family Characteristics and Transitions Expanded Confidentialised Unit Record File (CURF) were compiled from the Family Characteristics and Family Transitions and History topics in the Multi Purpose Household Survey (MPHS). The MPHS was conducted in Australia (excluding very remote areas), as a supplement to the ABS Monthly Population Survey (MPS), from July 2006 to June 2007.

The Family Characteristics topic collected information on household and family composition including demographic, labour force, and family types. A particular focus is families with children aged 0–17 years. The additional information collected for families with children included information about family structure, the social marital status of the parents, and contact arrangements for children with non-resident parents. The Family Transitions and History topic collected information for persons aged 18 years and over about the family transitions they have experienced in their lives, such as the death or divorce of their parents, their experiences of leaving the family home, the forming of marital relationships, children born and their expectations of having children in the future.

The Family Characteristics topic has been conducted before, in 1982, 1992, 1997 and 2003 and the content is largely repeated in 2006-07, allowing comparisons over time. The Family Transitions and History topic is new for 2006-07.

Steps to confidentialise the dataset for the CURF are taken to ensure integrity of data, optimise its content and maintain confidentiality of respondents. They include removing any information that might uniquely identify an individual, reducing the level of detail for some items and collapsing some categories.

The expanded CURF can be accessed via the ABS Remote Access Data Laboratory (RADL).

For more information, please refer to the Family Characteristics and Transitions, Expanded CURF Technical Manual, 2006-07 (cat. no. 4442.0.55.002).

Please note an additional condition of use for this CURF:

  • An individual user cannot be approved to access the Multi-Purpose Household Survey 2006/07 and the Family Characteristics and Transitions 2006/07 Expanded CURF at the same time.
  • However, an individual may access one of these CURFs, relinquish access to it and then apply for access to the other CURF.