FOI 27-3404 – Documents relating to the methodology and assumptions used in the Psychology Supply and Demand Compendium Report, April 2026

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The release comprises an underlying data workbook supporting the Department's Psychology Supply and Demand Study (April 2026), extracted on 24 July 2026 and disclosed under FOI 27-3404. It contains tables of psychology demand activity from 2019 to 2038 broken down by state and territory, age group and sex, with 2019 to 2023 figures drawn from observed service data and 2024 to 2038 figures representing projected unmet demand from a GLM model using population forecasts. Extracted passages also include psychologist workforce counts by setting (health and other settings), role (including trainee provisional psychologists) and origin (Australia/New Zealand or overseas) for 2019 to 2023. Headings point to a consultation section from an industry body on workforce growth, higher education funding, postgraduate Commonwealth Prac Payments and a national placement model. No specific clinical efficacy, safety or cost-effectiveness data are shown.