Factsheet: Study Youth's Education Participation: Findings from Wave 13 Summary Report for Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC)

Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) began in 2008 with a sample of nearly 1,700 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 0.5-5 years and their families from 11 sites, including major cities and very remote areas across Australia. This factsheet presents key findings from the LSIC Wave 13 survey about the impact of family-level financial stress on the wellbeing of Study Youth (aged 12-17 years in 2020). Wave 13 interviews were conducted entirely by telephone during the pandemic crisis (June to December 2020). A total of 755 families were surveyed in Wave 13, only accounting for 49% of the in-scope population for the wave. The Wave 13 sample was more clustered around non-remote areas, with 40% of families from major cities, 44% from regional areas and 16% from remote and very remote areas, compared with 30%, 41% and 29%, respectively, in Wave 12.