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Fewer restrictions makes for happier Victorians

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ANU Poll
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01 Aug 2021
Health + Pandemic + Mental Health
Based on the work of
Nicholas BiddleMatthew Gray

Life satisfaction for Victorians rebounded somewhat in October after a sharp drop lower than the rest of Australia in August when the COVID-19 second wave hit. Satisfaction for those in regional Victoria rebounded at the same rate as for those in Melbourne despite restrictions lifting earlier.

6.31

On a 1-10 scale, life satisfaction for Victorians lifted moderately from 6.08 in August to 6.31 in October 2020.

6.79

Life satisfaction for those in the rest of Australia didn’t change significantly during the period (6.85 in August, 6.79 in October)

0.16

Satisfaction for those in regional Victoria and those in Melbourne rose by the same amount in October.

7

Life satisfaction for Victorians in January was higher than for the rest of Australia (at 7) before the pandemic hit.

Life Satisfaction in Victoria and the Rest of Australia, January to October 2020
Overall, how satisfied are you with life as a whole these days with 0 meaning 'not at all satisfied' and 10 meaning 'completely satisfied'?
Sources & Methodology
Variable description Average response, by month
Variable time span January 2020 - October 2020
Published by ANU Poll
Publisher Link https://csrm.cass.anu.edu.au/research/publications/tracking-outcomes-during-covid-19-pandemic-october-2020-reconvergence
Data Source doi:10.26193/I6ZDOR
© Copyright 2021, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University.
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ANU Poll is a quarterly survey of Australian public opinion. The topic of each survey is an issue of national importance. ANUpoll differs from other opinion polls by placing public opinion in a broad policy context, and by benchmarking Australia against international opinion. lt is also able to follow trends in opinions over many decades.

ANUpoll is collected by the Social Research Centre's panel, Life in AustraliaTM. The Social Research Centre collected data online and through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) in order to ensure representation from the offline Australian population.

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Researchers

Professor Nicholas Biddle is Associate Director of the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods and Director of the newly created Policy Experiments Lab (http://csrm.cass.anu.edu.au/pelab). He has a Bachelor of Economics (Hons.) from the University of Sydney and a Master of Education from Monash University. He also has a PhD in Public Policy from the ANU where he wrote his thesis on the benefits of and participation in education of Indigenous Australians. He previously held a Senior Research Officer and Assistant Director position in the Methodology Division of the Australian Bureau of Statistics and is currently a Fellow of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute.

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Professor Matthew Gray is Director of the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods. Previous positions include Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Director of Research for the College of Arts and Social Sciences and Deputy Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies (2005–2010). He has published research on a wide range of social and economic policy issues including those related to Indigenous Australians. He has particular expertise in work and family issues, labour economics, social capital and social inclusion, measuring wellbeing, the economic consequences of divorce, child support, and social and economic policy development. He has undertaken extensive work on economic policy issues involving Indigenous Australians, including health status, labour market outcomes, poverty and the CDEP scheme.

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Citation

Biddle, N., Gray, M., Tracking outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic (October 2020) – Reconvergence [Computer file]. Canberra: Australian Data Archive, The Australian National University, 2020.

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