ACOSS Reports & Submissions
Community Sector Surveys
February 2010
Community and welfare organisations provided crucial support to keep struggling Australians afloat during the financial crisis, reports ACOSS' Australian Community Sector Survey 2010.
Surveyed organisations provided services to Australians on 4.3 million occasions in 2008-09, an increase of 4% on the previous year.
Young people, sole parents and Indigenous Australians were among the groups with the highest need for services. There were over half a million requests for help from people needing youth employment and youth welfare services during the year.
June 2009
Community services organisations provided assistance to over 3.1 million clients in 2007-2008 reports the Australian Community Sector Survey. Demand for community services across Australia increased by 19% in 2007-2008 compared to the previous year - services in highest demand are long term and crisis housing and health services (including mental health and drug and alcohol services). The Australian Community Sector Survey is the only annual survey providing an overview of the non-profit community services and welfare sector. Respondent organisations included community and welfare organisations from the membership of ACOSS and the State and Territory Councils of Social Service.
ACOSS Paper 157
June 2008
This Report presents the results of the Australian Community Sector Survey 2008 (ACSS). The Report provides information on service use, income, expenditure and workforce issues for the community services and welfare sector. The ACSS is the only annual survey which covers the non-profit community services and welfare sector, which is a major provider of the community services that most of us rely on at some point in our lives, but which are particularly important to people on low incomes.
ACOSS Paper 154
February 2007
This Report presents the results of the Australian Community Sector Survey 2007 (ACSS). The Report provides information on service use, income, expenditure and workforce issues for the community services and welfare sector. The ACSS is the only annual survey which covers the non-profit community services and welfare sector, which is a major provider of the community services that most of us rely on at some point in our lives, but which are particularly important to people on low incomes.
ACOSS Paper 154
January 2006
This Report presents the results of the Australian Community Sector Survey 2006 (ACSS). The Report provides information on service use, income, expenditure and workforce issues for the community services and welfare sector.
ACOSS Paper 143. Includes: Community services survey of organisations.
January 2005
This Report presents the results of the Australian Community Sector Survey 2005 (ACSS). The Report provides information on income and expenditure, service use and workforce issues for the non-profit community sector.
ACOSS Paper 138. Includes: Community services survey of organisations.
January 2004
This is the sixth Australians Living on the Edge survey of the community services sector conducted by ACOSS and the state and territory Councils of Social Service. The survey examines key changes in the operating environment of community organisations, major issues of concern to organisations, and how the community services sector is responding. Indirectly, the survey also aims to provide a sense of how the primary users of community services - low-income and disadvantaged Australians - are faring.
ACOSS Paper 132. Includes: Community services survey of organisations.
August 2003
ACOSS Paper 125. Published by ACOSS, 2002.
Includes: Community services survey of organisations.
The Australian Community Sector Survey is the only annual survey providing an overview of the non-profit community services and welfare sector.
In 2008-09 surveyed organisations provided services to Australians on 4.3 million occasions in 2008-09, an increase of 4% on the previous year.
The report provides information on service use, income, expenditure and workforce issues for the community services and welfare sector. The 2009 survey covers the financial year 2008-09 and had 582 survey respondents.
