The study will collect information on living and housing challenges in a range of areas such as:
  • Personal circumstances - participants physical and mental health; participation in the workplace, employment, education and training; and any significant life events;
  • Family circumstances - participants family status and living arrangements, support networks; and experiences of domestic and family violence;
  • Housing circumstances - participants housing situation, the periods, nature of, and reasons for, homelessness; and
  • Use of support services - types of assistance sought and used, including health care and support services.

The Melbourne Institute has subcontracted Roy Morgan Research to collect information for this study.

Taking Survey The information is collected mostly through face to face interviews, although some interviews may be conducted by telephone. Interviewers from Roy Morgan Research will contact participants between 1 September and 30 November 2011. The interview will take approximately 50 minutes to complete depending on answers and can be stopped at any point with the option to resume the interview at a later date.

An interviewer will also try to contact participants again in the future to find out how they are going. Future interviews will be shorter and only take approximately 40 minutes.