Youth survey report 2016

Summary A total of 21,846 young people aged 15-19 years responded to Mission Australia’s Youth Survey 2016. The largest number of responses came from New South Wales (32.5%), Queensland (20.0%) and Victoria (19.1%). Over half of the respondents (55.0%) were female and 6.1% identified as Aboriginal and/ or Torres Strait Islander. The percentage of young people who spoke a language other than English at home was 18.3%, slightly lower than results in 2015 (21.9%). The level of reported disability in 2016 was 3.8%. The vast majority of respondents were studying full-time (94.6%), consistent with the 94.0% in 2015. Around four in ten (38.5%) respondents were working part-time and 35.1% were looking for work, again consistent with previous years