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Structural properties of groups, 1976-1978: File 77a
No full textThis research is concerned with the development and validation of sociometric indices of the structural properties of groups. The 1976 study contained general questions about the group, its members, and the respondents' activities in relation to them. Sixteen questions were used to create interpersonal rating matrices from which sociometric measures of status differentiation, bias differentiation, status-bias concordance and differential mutuality were constructed. Scale analysis of 36 questions gave homogeneous and distinct scales of member heterogeneity, rejection of group, and permeability. In the 1977 study, six structural properties - consensus, role differentiation, fragmentation, status differentiation, solidarity and permeability - were measured by quantitative sociometric procedures. Consensus was measured in two ways: by means of an open question and with 28 statements about desirable behaviours. Two questions were used to determine role differentiation, four questions for fragmentation, five questions for status differentiation and two questions for solidarity. A second instrument containing statements that described the group directly on these five structural properties, among other characteristics, was administered both to group member and to outside informants. An index of permeability was determined by the rate of membership turnover reported by members for the previous year. Groups in the 1978-79 study were given an abbreviated form of the 1977 questionnaire to allow differences among group types to be examined
Australia at Work: Wave 1
No full textThe Australia at Work Survey is the first in a series of surveys, funded by the Australian Research Council and Unions NSW, exploring changes and challenges of Australian working life. The survey explores employees' perceptions of their labour contract, working conditions and attitudes towards work, and life course transitions. The respondents in this survey were Australians in the Australian work force in March of 2006. The survey compares how their work situation changed in the period between March of 2006 and 2007. The Australia at Work survey includes questions regarding wages and working conditions. Some of these variables are employment status, earnings, working hours and preferences, working arrangements, the labour contract, union membership, industry, occupation and living standards. Background variables include age, sex, marital status, ethnicity, education, study, and number of dependent children. WRC will shortly be depositing a revised Wave 1 Australia at Work dataset and the Wave 2 Australia at Work dataset. The revision to the Wave 1 dataset relates to a change in the weighting strategy. In the dataset that is currently deposited with ADA, owner-managers of incorporated entities (OMIEs) were included as employees for weighting and analysis purposes. Whereas with the revised Wave 1 dataset (and subsequent waves of data), the weighting strategy includes owner-managers of incorporated entities (OMIEs) in the self-employed category
The Nigerian family, December 1974 - February 1975: File p3
No full textProject 3 - 'Terminal female sexual abstinence' includes questions regarding: sexual activity of self and husband; time since last birth; reasons for sexual abstinence, age when began abstaining, whose decided to stop and reasons for stopping; method of family planning if ever used; and, whether the respondent would resume sexual activity if a completely safe method of family planning were available. Background information include age, number of births, number of children, education, occupation, age at first marriage, marital status, religion, age difference with husband, number of wives in family unit, position in family unit (first wife, second wife, etc.), and number of marriages
Graduate Destination Survey, 1990
No full textThe aim of the Graduate Careers Council of Australia's annual Graduate Destination Survey is to collect information about the activities of Australia's higher eduacation graduates, after the completion of their degree. The survey has been conducted annually since 1974. The target population for the survey is graduates who had completed requirements for higher education qualifications in the previous calendar year, including graduates residing overseas and international students. The survey variables can be broadly catagorised into three areas of investigation: Course, Employment and Further study. Course variables include level of qualification attained; field of study; attendence, length of time taken to to complete course; and employer support during course. Employment variables include employment status at census date; whether employed full-time or part-time; whether a short-term of permanent employee; occupation at census date; annual salary; and length of service. Further study variables include level of current qualification; field of study; attendence; date of course commencement; and institution attended. Background variables include age and sex; residency status; home state; disability; non-english speaking background; first educational qualification after leaving school; and highest educational qualification prior to undertaking the course
University of Melbourne Social Survey, 1941-1943: A 1981 Sample
No full textIn 1981, Dr John Lack of the Department of History at the University of Melbourne received a grant from the Australian Research Grants Committee to re-code and convert into digital form a sample of responses from the University of Melbourne Social Survey, undertaken by Wilfred Prest of the Faculty of Commerce between September 1941 and January 1943. Prest's interviewers visited more than six thousand addresses in Melbourne (every thirtieth in the CBD and northern and western suburbs and every sixtieth in the eastern and south-eastern suburbs), recording detailed information about domestic conditions and living costs. They also recorded basic demographic information such as the age, earning status, income, occupation and, where relevant, pre-war occupation of those living at each address. Prest's survey took place during a fourteen-year hiatus (from 1933-1947) in the Australian Census of Population and Housing and so fills an important gap in the statistical record for the areas surveyed. The completed survey forms are now held at the University of Melbourne Archives www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/archives/. Lack, together with Dr Graeme Davison and their research team, re-coded approximately 66 per cent of Prest’s surveys, resulting in coded data for around 4500 addresses. This data set opens up the results of Prest’s survey to new investigation and analysis and is a unique source of Australian household data for the period
ANU occupational status scales: translations from ABS classifications, 1973
No full textDuring a 1965 study on social stratification (SSDA Study No. 7 and Broom et al, 1965), 1961 Census classifications of occupation groupings were reallocated to a new series of codes more directly applicable to sociological analysis. This recoding is known as 'ANU 1 coding' and in its full form has 100 categories. These can be aggregated into 17 categories. As part of a 1973 study of social mobility (see SSDA Study No. 8 and Broom et al, 1977) a more detailed classification of occupations was developed, which reflected inequality in social status. This coding is known as 'ANU 2 status scales'. As both of these classifications were developed from ABS codes, two files have been produced whereby a link could be made to translate ABS codes from the 1971, 1976 and 1981 Censuses into ANU status scores. A further method of classifying occupations is by worker function i.e. the level of complexity of working with data, people and things. Using the US Department of Labour Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), a link was also made between worker function codings and the ANU status scales. When the Australian Bureau of Statistics released a new, skill based classification for occupation, ASCO, the 'ANU 3 status scale' was developed. File A allows translation from the 1971 ABS Classification and Classified List of Occupations (CCLO) codes to ANU status scores and contains the following variables: ABS CCLO unit group; ANU 2 status scores; ANU 1 coding for 100 unit groups; ANU 1 coding regrouped to 17 ranked status groups; level of complexity of working with data, people and things; a descriptive occupational title; and counts of people in each occupation at the 1971 Census (total, men, women). File B allows translations from 1976 and 1981 ABS CCLO codes back to 1971 codes and thence ABS status scores and contains the following variables: ABS codings for 1981, 1976 and 1971; ANU 2 status scores; ANU 1 coding for 99 unit groups; ANU 1 coding regrouped to 16 ranked status groups; level of complexity of working with data, people and things; and counts of people in each occupation at the 1981, 1976 and 1971 Censuses (men and women). File C allows translation from the 1986 ABS ASCO codes to ANU 3 status scores and contains the following variables: ABS unit group; ANU 3 status scores and counts of people in each occupation
Overseas arrivals and departures, Australia 1975-1981: six-monthly detailed tables: File b76
No full textStatistics of overseas arrivals in, and departures from, Australia are collected by means of the Incoming and Outgoing Passenger cards completed by all travellers. As well as being used for statistical purposes, the information collected is used by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for administrative purposes. Data is made available on a six-monthly basis, in matrix format, from the beginning of 1975 to the end of 1981, and relates to the number of movements in a specified time, rather than the number of travellers (i.e. the multiple movements of individual persons within the time period are each counted separately). Information collected includes category of travel, duration of stay, country of birth, citizenship, dis/embarkation, as well as age, marital status and sex, and occupation
Overseas arrivals and departures, Australia, 1980 - 1994: unit record data: File a84
No full textStatistics of overseas arrivals in, and departures from, Australia are collected by means of the Incoming and Outgoing Passenger cards completed by all travellers. As well as being used for statistical purposes, the information collected is used by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for administrative purposes. Data is made available on a quarterly basis from the first quarter of 1980, and relates to the number of movements in a specified time, rather than the number of travellers (i.e. the multiple movements of individual persons within the time period are each counted separately). This particular data set refers to information collected in 1984. Information collected includes category and mode of travel, reason for journey, duration of stay, country of birth, citizenship, dis/embarkation, as well as age, marital status, sex and occupation
Federal election returns 1977 and 1976 census summary
No full textIn this dataset, data from the 1976 census are matched to results in the 1977 federal election, according to the federal electoral divisions which existed prior to the 1977 boundary redistribution. For each electoral division, the following information on the population is available: gender, racial origin, labour force participation, occupational status, occupation, employment sector, age, birthplace, languages spoken, parents' birthplace, citizenship/residence in Australia, religion, schooling, educational level attained, highest qualifications obtained, annual personal, family and household income, social security, pensions, physical characteristics of the dwelling, occupancy status, rent/mortgages and motor vehicles at the dwelling
Operation Vampire: The impact of AIDS education on sexual behaviour amongs Gay and Bisexual Men 1986/87
No full textThe aim of this study is to explore the sexual and social behaviour patterns of homosexual and bisexual men living in or near Brisbane and the pursue (where they exist) correlations with knowledge of serological status, knowledge in general about AIDS, relationship to age, and effect of stable relationships. The initial study was conducted in 1986. In 1987, participants were recontacted and new participants were sought. Variables include health problems, types and frequency of sexual practices, sources of AIDS information. Background variables include place and year of birth, occupation and marital status.
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