ESAFETY - Longitudinal survey of the social media ban

Question

On the longitudinal survey of the social media ban: 1. Are the 4,121 child-parent pairs involved in the longitudinal study of the social media ban being compensated in any way? 2. How was this number (4,121) selected? 3. How were participants selected? 4. How will results from the survey be published, and on what dates? 5. As the budget for the survey is 1.46 million dollars, but the researchers are not being paid, what is this money being spent on? 6. Please provide a breakdown of the planned expenditure on the longitudinal survey. 7. What has the survey revealed, to date? 8. What were the findings of Wave 1 of the survey? 9. What were the findings of Wave 2 of the survey? 10. How many survey participants will turn 16 over the life of the survey? 11. Why were girls aged 10-13 underrepresented in the survey by 4.3 percentage points (relative to proportion of the 10-16 population)? 12. How was 10 selected as the lower bound of the survey? 13. What information, if any, does the government have on the usage of social media by children under the age of 10? 14. Why were members of IRSAD Quintile 1 (the poorest 20%) underrepresented in the survey by 3.5 percentage points (relative to proportion of the 10-16 population)? 15. Why were regional and remote participants underrepresented in the survey by 5.9 percentage points (relative to proportion of the 10-16 population)? 16. What effect is this disproportionality expected to have, and what weighting and other measures are being implemented to ensure the integrity of the results? 17. Please provide the list of questions asked of the young people and the parents as part of the survey in each wave of the survey, to date. 18. Is it the case that young participants were asked (or their parents were asked) if the young person takes Ritalin? If so, why? 19. How many young participants have installed the phone tracking app that is used to track phone usage? 20. Is it the case that, in March 2026, as few as 274 of the 4,000-odd young participants had installed the phone tracking app? 21. How many participants have agreed to the linking sources of data (e.g. phone data and survey answers) together? 22. Will the survey seek responses on negative mental health outcomes brought on by the social media ban? 23. Will the survey seek responses on self-harm brought on by the social media ban? 24. Will the survey seek responses on suicidal ideation brought on by the social media ban?