The GENERATION Study, a national post-school destination survey of year 10 students, asked a number of questions about young people’s identity and sociodemographic background. These questions are important to form a picture of who participated in the study and how priority equity groups are represented. Key equity groups measured in this study include Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander, living in regional or remote locations, identifying as having a disability, and neither parent having completed a university degree. Six in ten (61%) of all participating students identify as being from at least one of these equity groups, with 16% identify as a member of more than two equity groups.
5% of students identified as being from an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background.
One in ten (9%) students were from a regional or remote area.
15% of students reported they have had a long term disability for more than 6 months.
Just over half (51%) of all participants reported that neither of their parents had completed an a Bachelor’s Degree, Graduate Certificate or Postgraduate Degree.
5% of participants identified as being from an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background. Of these students…
- Nine in ten (88%) identified as members of at least one other equity group, with half (51%) identifying with one other equity group and one-third (32%) with two additional equity groups.
- One-quarter (26%) identified as a person with a disability.
- 23% were from a regional area.
- Eight in ten (80%) of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students reported neither of their parents had completed a university degree.
15% of students reported they had a disability. Of these students…
- Just over half (54%) identified with at least one other equity group.
- 8% of students with a disability identified as being Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
- One in ten (9%) of students with a disability are from a regional area.
- Half (50%) of students who identified as having a disability reported that neither of their parents had completed a university degree.
9% of students reported being from a regional area. Of these students…
- Almost three-quarters (73%) identified with at least one other equity group.
- 15% identified as being Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
- 18% identified as a person with a disability.
- 68% of students from regional areas reported that neither of their parents had completed a university degree.
51% of all students reported neither of their parents completed a university degree. Of these students…
- The majority (70%) did not identify with an additional equity group; a quarter (25%) identified with one additional group.
- 11% of students were from a regional area.
- 8% of students also identified as being Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
- 15% of students reported they had a disability.
- Of the students whose parents were university graduates, 78% did not identify as a member of any equity group.
Of the Student who participated in the GENERATION study, 50% of students attended a Government school and 42% attended an Independent school.
Government schools had a higher proportion of students whose parents have not graduated from university and were more likely to be at a school where more of tehir peer's parents also did not graduate from university.
40% of students who attended a Government School that had 70-90% of the student body whose parents have not graduated from university. While almost half (47%) of students who attended an Independent School which had 20-40% of the student body whose parents did not graduate from university.