The Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set (JJ NMDS)
The Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set (JJ NMDS) is a national unit-record data collection that contains information on all young people who were supervised by juvenile justice agencies in Australia, both in the community and in detention. It contains data from 2000-01.
Data collected for the Juvenile Justice NMDS include:
Characteristics of young people under juvenile supervision
- age
- sex
- Indigenous status
- age at first supervision
Supervised orders
- order start and end dates
- end reason
- order type
Detention periods
- start and end dates
- end reason
- detention type
The JJ NMDS does not contain information on young people on unsupervised orders or under supervision by agencies other than juvenile justice agencies.
Data access
For access to published data from the JJ NMDS, please refer to the annual statistical publications (Juvenile justice series) (Juvenile justice publications) and the state/territory appendixes, which are only available online.
Researchers can apply to access unpublished national and state/territory data. Requests for access to unpublished data may require approval from the Australasian Juvenile Justice Administrators (AJJA) and the AIHW Ethics Committee. Please contact us for more information about juvenile justice data holdings and applications for access to data.
Further information