Previous research on social inclusion
Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage
Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage, a major project supported by a Linkage grant from the Australian Research Council, was led by the Social Policy Research Centre of the University of New South Wales, with partner investigators from the Brotherhood and ACOSS. Mission Australia and Anglicare Diocese of Sydney were other industry partners.
The project drew on expertise in poverty research, policy analysis and practice to develop new indicators and directly measure social exclusion and deprivation in Australia. It combined recent living standards research with the knowledge of those who experience exclusion and deprivation. Stage 1 gathered information from focus groups with people who are financially vulnerable or otherwise at risk. Stage 2 involved a national survey of public opinion on acceptable minimum standards of living and necessary patterns of social interaction and participation, and a survey of clients of the three partner community agencies.
Reports and papers
Janet Taylor, Peter Saunders and Kelly Sutherland 2005, New indicators of disadvantage: Victorian voices (PDF file, 35KB), paper presented at VCOSS Congress, Melbourne, 20 October.
Peter Saunders and Kelly Sutherland 2006, Experiencing poverty: the voices of low income Australians (PDF file, 237KB) report on the first stage
Peter Saunders 2006, Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage Project: bulletin no. 1: identifying the essentials of life (PDF file, 52KB)
Peter Saunders 2007, Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage Project: bulletin no. 2: deprivation in Australia (PDF file, 236 KB)
Peter Saunders 2007, Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage Project: bulletin no.3: social exclusion in Australia (PDF file, 308 KB)
Peter Saunders and Yuvisthi Naidoo 2008, Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage Project: bulletin no.4: social exclusion and children (PDF file, 188 KB)
Left out and missing out: voices from the margins: snapshot 2007 (PDF file, 483 KB)
Left out and missing out: disability and disadvantage: snapshot 2007 (PDF file, 339 KB)
Peter Saunders, Yuvisthi Naidoo and Megan Griffiths 2007, Towards new indicators of disadvantage: deprivation and social exclusion (PDF file, 826 KB), final report of the second stage