Youth detention reports
In addition to this report, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) publishes the annual Youth justice in Australia report series, which provides comprehensive information on young people under youth justice supervision.
The presentation of data in this report is slightly different from the presentation in Youth justice in Australia.
- This report presents the average nightly population for each quarter, while Youth justice in Australia presents the average daily population for each year. These data are reported differently because unit record data are not available for all reporting years for the youth detention population in Australia.
- Young people who are concurrently unsentenced and sentenced are classified as sentenced in this report but are counted separately as both unsentenced and sentenced in Youth justice in Australia (although they are only counted once in the total detention population in both publications).