Australian Income Support Recipients by Demographics, Monthly Time Series

Monthly counts of recipients for 11 Australian government income support payments, including Age Pension and JobSeeker Payment. The Department of Social Services publishes this data, which includes demographic breakdowns by age, gender, state, earnings, rate, and marital status. The dataset was last updated on 2026-03-26.

Use Cases

• Forecast monthly payment recipient trends based on the time-series nature of the data
• Analyze demographic disparities in welfare access based on age, gender, and state breakdowns
• Model correlations between economic factors and payment types like JobSeeker Payment
• Compare uptake patterns across different support programs such as Carer Payment and Youth Allowance

Strengths

• Covers 11 distinct income support payment types, providing broad program coverage
• Includes demographic breakdowns by multiple dimensions: age, gender, state, earnings, rate, and marital status
• Published monthly by the Department of Social Services, a primary source

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Department of Social Services

Collection Method

Administrative data from government payment systems

Time Range

Monthly time series

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 23:52:47.833520; freshness should be verified

Geography

Australia, with state-level breakdowns