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• InSummary: Barriers and Incentives to Labour Force Participation, 2023

Persistent skill and labour shortages combined with historically high labour force participation rates and demographic challenges associated with an ageing population and workforce as well as the projected decline in new workforce entrants will require a concerted effort to understand barriers and incentives to labour force participation in order to attract and/or enable people to work to meet our growing labour force needs. This InSummary provides an analysis of the factors preventing Australians from participating in the labour force and how those factors differ for each age group, men and women and their personal circumstances.

• InSummary: ABS Regional Internal Migration Estimates, March 2021

This InSummary report analyses the ABS Regional Internal Migration Estimates (RIME) (provisional) data for Tasmania to identify any changes in trends from the pre-pandemic period and during the pandemic up to March 2021. 

• InSummary: The life-long and long-term economic and social implications of low and declining literacy and numeracy knowledge and skills for Tasmania – an analysis of 10 years of NAPLAN data, January 2022

This InSummary report provides a 2021 cohort analysis for each NAPLAN domain; reading, writing, spelling, punctuation and grammar, and numeracy for each year group, a comparative analysis with the outcomes of the 2011 cohort, and an assessment of change over time using 10 years of data. The report also provides a socio-economic gap analysis for year 9 students whereby parental education is used as a proxy for socio-economic status as well as a gender gap analysis.