Youth survey

This is another report that has been produced as a result of an ongoing partnership between Mission Australia and Orygen. The purpose of this report is to better understand the cohort of young people who experience extreme weather events and the impact these events have on their lives.

Each year, we ask young people aged 15 to 19 in Australia to share their challenges, concerns and experiences in Australia’s largest annual survey of young people. The report details findings from 19,501 responses to the Youth Survey 2023. Young people identified concerns relating to the environment, equity and discrimination, the economy and financial matters and mental health.

This booklet includes key infographic summaries from the Youth Survey Report 2023. It provides an overview of the top national issues identified by young people and a summary of key challenges they have personally faced this year.

A breakdown of the Youth Survey 2023 findings for each state and territory can be found here. Each state/territory sub-report includes a summary of key findings presented as an infographic summary as well as data tables.

This is another report that has been produced as a result of an ongoing partnership between Mission Australia and Orygen. The purpose of this report is to better understand young people who are experiencing social exclusion, and the impact this has on their mental health and wellbeing and their help-seeking behaviour.

This is another report that has been produced as a result of an ongoing partnership between Mission Australia and Orygen. The purpose of this report is to better understand the cohort of young people who are highly concerned about climate change, and the impact this concern has on their mental health and perceptions of the future. 

A breakdown of the Youth Survey 2022 findings for each state and territory can be found here. Each state/territory sub-report includes a summary of key findings presented as an infographic summary as well as data tables.

Each year, we ask young people aged 15 to 19 in Australia to share their challenges, concerns and experiences in Australia’s largest annual survey of young people. The report details findings from 18,800 responses to the Youth Survey 2022. Young people identified concerns relating to the environment, equity and discrimination and mental health.

This summary booklet includes infographic summaries of the Youth Survey Report 2022. Young people identified concerns relating to the environment, equity and discrimination and mental health. Young people also voiced the importance of asking friends, family and health professionals for support, the need for learning strategies to reduce stress and more emphasis on mental health and wellbeing at school.

This is Mission Australia’s fourth youth homelessness report. The report uses 2021 Youth Survey data to understand the experiences of young people in Australia who were homeless for the first time during the COVID-19 period. It looks at the prevalence of first-time youth homelessness during that time, explores the risk factors for first-time youth homelessness in this group and provides an overview of their mental health and housing situation.

This booklet contains the key findings, policy and practice recommendations from the report Without a home: First-time youth homelessness in the COVID-19 period.

This is the first report that has been produced as a result of an important partnership between Mission Australia and Orygen. The report looks into the types of impact experienced by young people during the pandemic, and the particular groups of young people who have faced more challenges. The report also details how the experience of different and multiple impacts relate to increases in stress, loneliness, and psychological distress, as well as decreases in feelings of control, happiness and mental health and wellbeing.

This summary booklet contains the key findings and policy & practice recommendations from the report Clusters of COVID-19 impact: Identifying the impact of COVID-19 on Young Australians in 2021.

In 2021, Mission Australia conducted its 20th annual Youth Survey. This overview provides a summary of the key findings from this year’s survey, including their concerns about COVID-19, the environment, equity and discrimination and mental health.

Each year, young people aged 15 to 19, from across Australia share their values, aspirations and concerns in Australia’s largest annual Youth Survey. This year, 20,207 young people identified concerns relating to COVID-19, the environment, equity and discrimination and mental health.

This is the fifth national report on young people’s mental health produced by Mission Australia and the Black Dog Institute. The report reveals important insights about prevalence of psychological distress in 15-19 year olds over time (2012 to 2020). Then, focusing on 2020 data, we look at the characteristics of young people living with psychological distress, explore impact of psychological distress on experiences in daily life, and identify barriers that might prevent them from seeking help when they need it.

This summary booklet contains the key findings, policy and practice recommendations, and messages to the community from the Psychological Distress in Young People in Australia Fifth Biennial Youth Mental Health Report: 2012-2020.

Mission Australia’s Young Voices of the Pandemic reports on the free-text responses provided by young people in the 2020 Youth Survey in answer to the question ‘In the past year, what is the biggest issue that you have been dealing with? What do you think needs to be done about it?’. This report seeks to amplify young people’s voices using their own words to provide a glimpse of how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on young people’s experiences of education, isolation and mental health.

This infographic details the key findings and recommendations from Mission Australia’s Young Voices of the Pandemic report. Direct quotes provided by young people highlight how living through the early stages of the pandemic in Australia affected their experiences of education, isolation and mental health wellbeing.

Mission Australia’s Economic Disadvantage report uses data from the 2020 Youth Survey and compares the responses of young people without parent/s or guardian/s in paid work with those who reported at least one parent or guardian in paid work. The findings demonstrate the need for a whole-of-society response to improve the outcomes for young people.