Australian Unity, in partnership with the Australian Centre on Quality of Life at Deakin University, regularly measure how satisfied Australians are with their lives and life in Australia
Some of the Australian well-being index results for 2009, compared to the 2001 results, are:
How safe you feel in Australia
- 2001: 75.40
- 2009: 81.33
Standard of Living in Australia
- 2001 74.78
- 2009 78.69
Life as a whole in Australia
- 2001 75.48
- 2009 78.64
State comparison
Personal Wellbeing Index 2001 to 2009
- Tas: 75.24 up to 78.22 a change of 3.96%
- SA: 73.25 up to 76.57 a change of 4.53%
- Vic: 72.64 up to 76.12 a change of 4.79%
- QLD: 73.36 up to 75.10 a change of 2.37%
- WA :74.05 up to 74.81 a change of 1.03%
- NSW: 72.90 up to 74.40 a change of 2.06%
- ACT: 74.88 down to 72.82 a change of -2.75%
- NT: 75.71 down to 71.77 a change of -5.20%
Source Information:
- http://acqol.deakin.edu.au/index_wellbeing/index.htm
- http://www.australianunity.com.au/wellbeingindex/
- 2001 Results http://www.australianunity.com.au/pdf/WIndex_survey1_report1.pdf
- 2009 Part A Results http://www.australianunity.com.au/au/info/pdf/Part_A_%20Report_20_1_Final.pdf
- 2009 Part B Results http://acqol.deakin.edu.au/index_wellbeing/report-20-1-part-b-tables.pdf
- 2008 Results http://www.australianunity.com.au/au/info/pdf/Part_A_Report_20.pdf