NSW Community Attitudes Survey on Privacy and Data Sharing

In 2020, 2023, and now in 2026 the NSW Department of Communities and Justice, through the Family and Community Services Insights, Analysis and Research (FACSIAR) Branch commissioned the Communities Attitude Survey (CAS) to investigate NSW community attitudes towards data sharing and privacy protection.

The objective of the research was to enable DCJ to:

• Identify community attitudes and expectations towards data sharing, its benefits and risks, and necessary practices to manage these.
• Identify a measurable and actionable ‘threshold’ and scope of appropriate data sharing practice.
• Examine how the views and needs of vulnerable sub-groups differ from those of the wider NSW population
• Identify trends and changes over the last 3 years.

View the NSW Community Attitudes Survey on Privacy and Data Sharing December 2023 (PDF, 791.2 KB)

The NSW Community Attitudes Survey on Privacy and Data Sharing December 2020 (PDF, 2.4 MB)