Katherine A Thurber|Emily Banks|Cathy Banwell
Cohort Profile: Footprints in Time, the Australian Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children
Australian National University|Australian National University|Australian National University
indigenous australians experience profound levels disadvantage health living standards life expectancy education employment particularly comparison nonindigenous australians little information available healthy development australian indigenous children longitudinal study indigenous children lsic designed fill knowledge gap dataset provides opportunity follow development 1759 indigenous children lsic conducts annual facetoface interviews children aged 052 355 years baseline 2008 caregivers represents 5 10 total population indigenous children age groups including families varied socioeconomic cultural backgrounds study topics include physical social emotional wellbeing children caregivers language culture parenting early childhood education lsic shared resource formed partnership communities data readily accessible australian government department social services see httpdssgovaulsic data access arrangements one longitudinal studies indigenous children national one lsic enable understanding indigenous children wide range environments cultures findings lsic form part growing infrastructure understand indigenous child health