LSIC Housing Research Report Factsheet: Housing pathways for Indigenous children

AuthorsMichael Dockery, Megan Moskos
PublishedMarch 2026
PublisherBankwest Curtin Economics Centre

From 2008, the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) has been following a cohort of Indigenous children, interviewing their families each year as they grow up. The initial sample comprised of 1,671 children from two age groups: from 6 months to 2 years and 3 ½ years to 5 years.

This factsheet is based on data up to Wave 13 (2020), when the children were aged 13 to 18 years. It looks at the main housing pathways those children experienced as they grew up, and their outcomes as they approach adulthood.

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