Notes

Amendments

11 November 2025: 

Editorial updates were made to the About and Summary pages to provide additional context and information consistent with its companion report, Characteristics and Health Conditions of Civilian Spouses of Veterans, which was published subsequently. Minor typographical corrections and formatting adjustments were also applied.

Note that these changes do not affect the overall findings of the report.

Data quality statement

The data quality declaration for the 2021 Census of Population and Housing can be found in the following Australian Bureau of Statistics publication: Census methodology, 2021 quality declaration

Acknowledgements

The AIHW thanks and acknowledges the large contribution by staff from a range of organisations in providing datasets and/or advice in conducting this project. These organisations are:

  • Department of Defence
  • Department of Veterans’ Affairs
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics

Ethical approval of this project was provided by the AIHW Ethics Committee and Departments of Defence and Veterans’ Affairs Human Research Ethics Committee.

The AIHW also thanks and acknowledges contributions of internal staff from the AIHW:

  • Data Linkage who conducted the data-linkage
  • Ethics and Privacy Unit who facilitated the ethics approval process
  • Specialist Capability Unit who provided statistical guidance in the methods used for analysis

The AIHW thanks internal reviews from AIHW staff from the: Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Unit, Justice and Education Unit, Child Welfare Unit.

AIHW also thanks external reviewers from the Australian Institute of Family Studies (Defence & Veteran Family Research) for their valuable input.