NSMHW: National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing

Information on the mental health and wellbeing of people in Australia, including prevalence of selected mental disorders, level of impairment, health service usage, suicidality and self-harm behavious, and demographic and socio-economic characteristics.

Provides collection scope, mental-health topics, file structure and data item lists.

Dataset summary

Asset

PLIDA

Collection

survey

Supplier

ABS

Custodian

ABS

Reference period

2020 to 2022

Update frequency

Follows ABS publication

Products

1

Tables

2

Unique variables

3,319

Variable occurrences

3,321

Metadata source

PLIDA Data Item List, 19 March 2026

Official information

ABS mental-health-study microdata

Products and tables

NSMHW has 1 product covering 2 tables.

Product	Tables	Variables
madipge-nsmhw-d-survey-20-22	2	3,319

Variables

Select a row for the full detail: the official description, the value definition, every valid value, the source, and the tables the variable appears in.