Building wellbeing into policy and action in Australia forum, Canberra
26-28 June 2024
REGIONAL
WELLBEING
SURVEYS
The Regional Wellbeing Survey team measure wellbeing, resilience and liveability across Australia in surveys including the Regional Wellbeing Survey, Living Well in the ACT Region survey, and Carer Wellbeing Survey.
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REGIONAL
WELLBEING
SURVEYS
The Regional Wellbeing Survey team measure wellbeing, resilience and liveability across Australia in surveys including the Regional Wellbeing Survey, Living Well in the ACT Region survey, and Carer Wellbeing Survey.
Click here to complete the 2024 Carer Wellbeing SurveyFind out more and register here for the 2024 Building Wellbeing into Policy and Action forum
WHAT’S HAPPENING?
Media Release – 2022 Carer Wellbeing Survey
The Regional Wellbeing Team is proud to work with Carers Australia to track the wellbeing of Australian unpaid carers through the Carer Wellbeing Survey. To mark World Mental Health Day this year, Carers Australia is highlighting new data from the 2022 Carer Wellbeing...
Media release – ACT residents happier than other regions
People living in Canberra and the close surrounding regions are happier, on average, than Australians living in other areas of the country, according to the Living well in the ACT region survey.
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the 2022 Living Well in the ACT check-in survey
WHAT’S HAPPENING?
Media Release – 2022 Carer Wellbeing Survey
The Regional Wellbeing Team is proud to work with Carers Australia to track the wellbeing of Australian unpaid carers through the Carer Wellbeing Survey. To mark World Mental Health Day this year, Carers Australia is highlighting new data from the 2022 Carer Wellbeing...
Media release – ACT residents happier than other regions
People living in Canberra and the close surrounding regions are happier, on average, than Australians living in other areas of the country, according to the Living well in the ACT region survey.
The findings of the latest Living Well in the ACT survey are out
The findings of the latest Living Well in the ACT survey are out – and suggest that while the wellbeing of many Canberrans remains high despite the impacts of COVID-19, some groups are doing it harder than others.
The Regional Wellbeing Survey team are proud to be working with Carers Australia to track the wellbeing of carers – findings from the first annual survey are now available
The 2021 Carer Wellbeing Survey found that unpaid carers are lonelier, in poorer physical and mental health, and are less likely to be employed compared to the average Australian. The results from the 2021 Carer Wellbeing Survey can be found here:...
Magda Szubanski and Will Connolly set to test creative arts as trauma therapy
Have you heard about UC’s Regeneration project? It's an exciting initiative funded by money raised by Magda Szubanski and Will Connolly during the 2019/2020 bushfires! Regeneration is a creative arts-based therapy project to help support health and wellbeing in...
WHAT IS THE REGIONAL WELLBEING SURVEY?
Worldwide, many nations and organisations — including the United Nations, the OECD, and more than 50 countries — are starting to measure social progress using measures that go beyond economic growth. This is because it is increasingly understood that economic growth alone doesn’t guarantee a good quality of life. We need to understand how liveable, safe and friendly communities are, if they have good access to key services and infrastructure, and if they are welcoming and inclusive. In other words, we need to know if they provide a good life for the people who live in them, as well as producing economic growth.
Often there’s not much information to help us understand quality of life — particularly for rural and remote regions. Since 2013, the Regional Wellbeing team at the University of Canberra have been asking people
across Australia, in remote, rural and urban regions, about the liveability of their community, their wellbeing, and their ability to cope with challenging times.
We produce a wide range of reports, as well as data tables showing the latest survey data for regions right across Australia, and for specific groups including farmers. Many organisations use our data to track quality of life in their region or industry — check out who is using the survey data. Researchers can also apply to access our data set, if they are able to meet our strict confidentiality and privacy requirements — find out more here.
WHAT IS THE REGIONAL WELLBEING SURVEY?
Worldwide, many nations and organisations — including the United Nations, the OECD, and more than 50 countries — are starting to measure social progress using measures that go beyond economic growth. This is because it is increasingly understood that economic growth alone doesn’t guarantee a good quality of life. We need to understand how liveable, safe and friendly communities are, if they have good access to key services and infrastructure, and if they are welcoming and inclusive. In other words, we need to know if they provide a good life for the people who live in them, as well as producing economic growth.
Often there’s not much information to help us understand quality of life — particularly for rural and remote regions. Since 2013, the Regional Wellbeing team at the University of Canberra have been asking people across Australia, in remote, rural and urban regions, about the liveability of their community, their wellbeing, and their ability to cope with challenging times.
We produce a wide range of reports, as well as data tables showing the latest survey data for regions right across Australia, and for specific groups including farmers. Many organisations use our data to track quality of life in their region or industry — check out who is using the survey data. Researchers can also apply to access our data set, if they are able to meet our strict confidentiality and privacy requirements — find out more here.
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what is the regional wellbeing survey?
Often there’s not much information to help us understand quality of life — particularly for rural and remote regions. Since 2013, the Regional Wellbeing team at the University of Canberra have been asking people across Australia, in remote, rural and urban regions, about the liveability of their community, their wellbeing, and their ability to cope with challenging times.
We produce a wide range of reports, as well as data tables showing the latest survey data for regions right across Australia, and for specific groups including farmers. Many organisations use our data to track quality of life in their region or industry — check out who is using the survey data. Researchers can also apply to access our data set, if they are able to meet our strict confidentiality and privacy requirements — find out more here.