Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
www.aifs.gov.au/growingup
Publications
Survey Instruments
Any researcher who intends to use the Growing Up in Australia questionnaires to collect data should inform the Australian Institute of Family Studies' LSAC Project Operations Team advising which items are to be used and providing some general information on the sample to be surveyed.
When Growing Up in Australia measures are used to collect data, or when publications arise from the use of these measures, it is requested that the following text be used to acknowledge the study:
'This study uses questionnaires (or part of) developed for Growing up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). These questionnaires are the property of the Australian Government Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. LSAC is an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (www.facsia.gov.au), and is being undertaken in partnership with the Australian Institute of Family Studies (www.aifs.gov.au), with advice being provided by a consortium of leading researchers at research institutions and universities throughout Australia.'
Some items used in Growing Up in Australia are copyrighted and cannot be used without permission of the copyright holders. Every effort has been made to identify these items: Copyright information is contained within the individual questionnaires and in the Copyright acknowledgments document.
- Labelled variables questionnaires for Waves 1, 1.5, 2 and 2.5 are available in a zip file - questionnaires.zip (31.5MB)
Wave 2.5 2008
Wave 2 2006
- P1 Interview (B and K) and Child Interview (K) (Word 1MB)
- Parent 1 interview self-complete (B) (PDF 658KB) | Parent 1 interview self-complete (K) (PDF 658KB)
- Parent 1 leave behind self-complete (B) (PDF 1.2MB) | Parent 1 leave behind self-complete (K) (PDF 1.4MB)
- Parent 2 leave behind self-complete (B) (PDF 824KB) | Parent 2 leave behind self-complete (K) (PDF 1.1MB)
- Parent living elsewhere self-complete (B) (PDF 851KB) | Parent living elsewhere self-complete (K) (PDF 762KB)
- Centre based carer (B) (PDF 879KB)
- Home based carer (B) (PDF 930KB)
- Teacher (K) (PDF 784KB)
- Diary (B) (PDF 1.5M) | Diary (K) (PDF 1.4M)
Wave 1 with relabelled variables
- Parent 1 interview (B) (PDF 3.2MB) | Parent 1 interview (K) (PDF 3.6MB)
- Parent 1 self-complete (B) (PDF 2.1MB) | Parent 1 self-complete (K) (PDF 2.1MB)
- Parent 2 self-complete (B) (PDF 1.9MB) | Parent 2 self-complete (K) (PDF 1.9MB)
- Centre based carer (B) (PDF 1.6MB)
- Home based carer (B) (PDF 1.6MB)
- Teacher (K) (PDF 1.8MB)
- Diary (B) (PDF 658K) | Diary (K) (PDF 677K)
Wave 1.5 2005
Wave 1 2004
- Parent 1 interview (B) (PDF 3.1MB) | Parent 1 interview (K) (PDF 3.5MB)
- Parent 1 self-complete (B) (PDF 2.1MB) | Parent 1 self-complete (K) (PDF 2.1MB)
- Parent 2 self-complete (B) (PDF 1.9MB) | Parent 2 self-complete (K) (PDF 1.9MB)
- Centre based carer (B) (PDF 1.6MB)
- Home based carer (B) (PDF 1.6MB)
- Teacher (K) (PDF 1.8MB)
- Family contact form (B) (PDF 326K) | Family contact form (K) (PDF 325K)
- Diary (B) (PDF 658K) | Diary (K) (PDF 677K)
