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Author(s) -
Will Lou
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8462.12131
Subject(s) - payment , welfare , point (geometry) , research data , process (computing) , business , resource (disambiguation) , actuarial science , computer science , public economics , economics , data science , finance , computer network , geometry , mathematics , data curation , market economy , operating system
At any point in time, Centrelink is administering the welfare payments of over 5 million Australians. A large amount of data is created in the process. Since early 2013, researchers have been able to request access. These longitudinal data, covering all income support payment recipients back to at least mid‐1998, are a rich resource for policy‐relevant research. This article overviews the data, noting some of their advantages and limitations. It also highlights ways in which the research potential of the data could be enhanced.