LSAC data and documentation

• Accessing LSAC data
  Information about how to apply for the latest data release.
• Data User FAQs
  Questions about the study? Find answers on our Data User’s Frequently Asked Questions page.
• LSAC's Child Health CheckPoint study and data
  The Child Health CheckPoint is a special one-off physical health assessment offered to the 11-12 year old children in Growing Up in Australia.
• Data linkages
  Learn more about LSAC data and gain confidence in understanding and navigating the datasets from the experts.
• Response rates by wave and instrument
  A table that shows the response rates across waves, broken down by cohort and instrument.
• Data user guide
  A reference tool for data users, providing information on how to use LSAC data, survey methodology, file structure and variable naming conventions. Particular issues are highlighted to ensure data analysts use the LSAC data appropriately in their research.
• Data dictionary
  Documents that provide information about all variables in LSAC over the course of the study, including variable names, variable labels, items, cohort, wave, and populations
• Study questionnaires
  Questionnaires used in each of the LSAC waves for which data has been released. The questionnaires are annotated with variable names.
• Rationale documents
  Documents designed to provide contextual information on the scales and items included in the LSAC datasets – for example, item sources, scoring, and psychometric information.
• Issues paper 
  Papers containing summaries of data-related issues that have emerged over the life of LSAC. Includes topics such as missing data, cleaning of Time Use Diary data, cleaning of income data, and issues with height data.
• Technical papers
  Papers about various topics on using LSAC data, to help users with specific types of data analyses. Includes topics such as weighting and non-response, and using Time Use Diary data and My School data.
• Data frequencies
  Data frequencies contain descriptive information for every variable available in the General Release dataset for Waves 1–9C.
• Discussion papers
  Papers about the study methodology, data management issues and key research questions
• School Subject Coder
  The LSAC School Subject Coder was developed for the purposes of collecting senior school subjects of the K cohort Study Children (SC) in the study.
• Using LSAC questions in other studies
  Information about what to do if you want to use questions from LSAC in your own study.
• Data Users news
  This is the Data User email campaign archive from Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC).