The HILDA Data Users
The HILDA Survey has already developed a sizeable community of users. The two tables below show the total number of persons who have been approved access to at least one of the last five data releases and the composition of our user community. There are also 28 users of the HILDA-Cross-National Equivalent File (HILDA-CNEF).
Table 3: HILDA Survey total number of data users: Release 1 to 5
| Release |
Total data orders |
Orders by new users |
Cumulative no. of users |
| Release 1 |
204 |
204 |
204 |
| Release 2 |
265 |
167 |
371 |
| Release 3 |
280 |
154 |
525 |
| Release 4 |
329 |
171 |
696 |
| Release 4 |
369 |
165 |
861 |
Table 4: HILDA Survey data users by type: Release 1 to 5
| Type of user |
Release 1 |
Release 2 |
Release 3 |
Release 4 |
Release 5 |
| Academic – Australia |
84 |
105 |
118 |
138 |
138 |
| Academic – Overseas |
5 |
13 |
20 |
20 |
24 |
| Students – Honours year |
5 |
14 |
18 |
15 |
12 |
| Students – Postgraduate |
9 |
23 |
24 |
33 |
43 |
| Government – Australian |
87 |
89 |
85 |
100 |
104 |
| Government – State/Local |
7 |
13 |
5 |
14 |
7 |
| Other |
7 |
8 |
10 |
5 |
11 |
| Total |
204 |
265 |
280 |
329 |
369 |
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