Table 2.

Sample characteristics for the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index (AUWI) and COVID-19 Pandemic Adjustment Survey (CPAS) samples.

	Australianpopulation$	AUWI Norms%	CPAS§
		N (%)	%
Parent age, m(sd)	n/a	45.9 (11.8)	38.3 (7.1)
Child age, m(sd)	n/a	n/a	8.7 (5.1)
Parent gender
Cisgender men	46%	8255 (47%)	19%
Cisgender women	54%	9274 (53%)	81%
Transgender or nonbinary	n/a	n/a	<1%
Child gender
Cisgender boy	n/a	n/a	51%
Cisgender girl	n/a	n/a	49%
Transgender or nonbinary	n/a		<1%
Geographic location
Major Cities of Australia	74%		70%
Inner Regional Australia	17%		23%
Outer Regional Australia	7%		6%
Remote Australia	2%		1%
Number of children
1 child	42%	n/a	28%
2 children	39%	n/a	46%
3 children	14%	n/a	18%
4 or more children	5%	n/a	7%
Single parent household	11%		11%
Parent born overseas	21%	n/a	18%
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	4%	n/a	2%
Did not complete high school	40%	n/a	9%
Receiving government benefit	n/a	n/a	6%
Low household income
$52,000 or less per year	21%		14%
$60,000 or less per year		13%
Parent mental health condition	n/a	n/a	37%
Parent chronic health condition	n/a	n/a	30%
Child neurodevelopmental or mental health condition	n/a	n/a	31%
COVID-19 related factors
Deprivation index, m(sd)	n/a	n/a	0.4 (1.0)
Child home while working	n/a	n/a	50%
COVID-19 environmental risk index, m(sd)	n/a	n/a	1.4 (1.2)

Notes: m(sd) = Mean (standard deviation); AUWI = Australian Unity Wellbeing Index; CPAS = COVID-19 Pandemic Adjustment Survey.

^$Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics summarising characteristics of Australian parents living with a dependent child (usually defined as 0–14 years).

^%Norms from 2002 to 2019, N = 17,529 parents living with children (includes children of all ages living in the same household as their parent/s).

^§Data collected 8th–28th April 2020, N = 2365 parents of a child 0–18 years, data are multiply imputed and thus can only be presented as percentages.