The 2009 National Survey of Young Australians, conducted by Mission Australia, tested the views of close to 48,000 young people – the biggest group since the survey began in 2002 – between the ages of 11-24 (97.9 per cent aged 11-19).

Drugs, suicide and body image were the most common concerns raised by young people in the survey.

When asked to rank concerns about 15 issues, drugs were ranked most frequently in the top three by 26.8 per cent of respondents, closely followed by suicide at 26.3 per cent and body image at 25.5 per cent. However, the concerns of respondents in this year’s poll were very evenly spread with eight of the 15 isssues surveyed considered a priority to at least one in five respondents.

You can download reports from the survey at http://is.gd/6dC7O.