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Work-Life issues in Australia: What do we know

acknowledgements. Australian Research Council Linkage Project (LP0776732)UniSA partnership with the Western Australian State Health Advisory Committee on Work Life Balance and SafeWork SA, Government of South Australia. . 2. Overview. Why are work-life issues important?Overview of AWALIResearch

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Work-Life issues in Australia: What do we know

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    1. Work-Life issues in Australia: What do we know? Natalie Skinner Barbara Pocock Philippa Williams Centre for Work + Life, Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies University of South Australia 22nd AIRAANZ Conference, 6 – 8 Feb 2008, Melbourne

    2. acknowledgements Australian Research Council Linkage Project (LP0776732) UniSA partnership with the Western Australian State Health Advisory Committee on Work Life Balance and SafeWork SA, Government of South Australia. 2

    3. Overview Why are work-life issues important? Overview of AWALI Research questions: Does self-employment reduce work-life conflict? Who is most at risk of w-l conflict? Who wants to downshift their work hours? Implications Future plans 3

    4. Why are work-life issues important? Health economics (Higgins et al 2004) 2001, Canada, health costs High work-family spillover: C$2.8 billion Mental and physical health impairments (for self & family functioning) Organisational costs Turnover intention, performance effectiveness Reduced marital and life satisfaction (Kossek & Ozeki 1999; Allen et al. 2000) 4

    5. AWALI Australian Work and Life Index National survey of work–life outcomes Repeated annually from March 2007 CATI interviews conducted by Newspoll 1435 randomly selected working Australians 29 Qs + 10 demographic Qs (Newspoll) 5

    6. Existing data sources Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey (HILDA), Melbourne University ‘Growing up in Australia’ Longitudinal Study of Australia Children (LSAC), Australian Institute of Family Studies Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA), ANU 6 Excellent data sources exist which cover range of issues related to work and family life HILDA and LSAC address issues around the work-life relationship, primarily focused on workers with parenting responsiblities AuSSA also has questions related to work; scope is broad and only a few questions focus directly on work-life issues Use these data sets ourselves – felt there was a need for a data collection main focus on work-life issues, to complement these existing projects.Excellent data sources exist which cover range of issues related to work and family life HILDA and LSAC address issues around the work-life relationship, primarily focused on workers with parenting responsiblities AuSSA also has questions related to work; scope is broad and only a few questions focus directly on work-life issues Use these data sets ourselves – felt there was a need for a data collection main focus on work-life issues, to complement these existing projects.

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