Child Support Program Statistics on Cases and Payments

Quarterly child support statistics from Australia's Department of Social Services include data on private and agency-collected cases. The data covers care arrangements, collection methods, median annual assessment amounts, and payee/payer circumstances. A revision to June 2023 data was noted as forthcoming in May 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in child support collection methods based on private vs. agency-collected cases
• Modeling median annual assessment amounts based on payee and payer circumstances
• Tracking changes in care arrangements over time using quarterly updates

Strengths

• Data is updated and published quarterly, providing regular snapshots
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license by the authoritative Department of Social Services
• Covers multiple facets of the program including cases, arrangements, and financial assessments

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Primary data files are in PDF format, which may complicate automated analysis

Provenance

Source

Department of Social Services, Australia

Collection Method

Administrative data from the Child Support Program

Freshness

Updated quarterly; last metadata update was 2026-07-03.

Geography

Australia