LSIC Housing Research Report Factsheet: Housing transitions 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: f rom 6 months to 2 years and 3½ years to 5 years.

This factsheet looks at how the study children’s housing circumstances evolved over 13 waves (2008-2020), to when the children were aged from 13 to 18 years.

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