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The Survey of Income and Housing
Author(s) -
Taylor Matthew
Publication year - 2018
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 - 10.1111/1467-8462.12265
Subject(s) - survey data collection , cousin , survey research , demographic economics , economics , geography , socioeconomics , statistics , mathematics , archaeology
This data survey presents an introduction to the Survey of Income and Housing (SIH), a cross‐sectional household survey of individuals living in Australian private dwellings starting in 1969. This article provides an overview of the SIH and a description of the content of the most recent edition collected over the course of the 2015–16 financial year. The overview compares and contrasts the SIH to its longitudinal cousin the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, outlining strengths and limits of both data sources depending on the type of research question.