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New South Wales Recorded Crime Data 1995 to 2009, Persons of Interest
No full textThe New South Wales Recorded Crime Data is a compiled record of crime data obtained from NSW police records. The data contain information on persons of interest (POIs) connected to the crime incidents from the year 1995 to 2009. This data was extracted from the NSW Police Service's Computerised Operational Policing System (COPS). This system is used for record-keeping for all police operations, not just for criminal matters. Prior to April 1994, the NSW Police Service used a different system for recording criminal offences. Recorded crime statistics for NSW for periods prior to April 1994 are not comparable with those for more recent periods. In this report: the counting units are recorded criminal incidents (except for murder and manslaughter where the counting units are victims) rather than recorded offences; and the data are categorised by date of reporting to police (or date of detection by police) rather than date of occurrence of the offence. This dataset contains the details at the time of the incident of a person of interest (POI) for an incident. Note that for offender police data, the year refers to the year in which the criminal incident or incidents were reported to police. For example, if an incident was reported to police in 2007 but the alleged offender was not apprehended and charged until 2010, the charge is recorded for 2007. Alleged offenders who are not legally proceeded against are not included in recorded crime data. Incident variables include type of crime incident, premises on which the incident occurred, type of drug associated with the incident, geographical location of incident, when the incident first occurred, when the incident was reported and if the incident was domestic violence related. A criminal incident is defined as an activity detected by or reported to police which: - involved the same offender(s); - involved the same victim(s); - occurred at the one location; - occurred during one uninterrupted period of time; - falls into one offence category; - falls into one incident type (for example, 'actual', 'attempted', 'conspiracy'). One incident may involve two offenders assaulting the same victim. This would be recorded as one assault incident. Alternatively, suppose a man reports to police that his neighbour demanded money from him, then assaulted him when he did not comply. For such an event, two criminal incidents are recorded because two distinct offence types are involved (demand money with menaces and assault) even though the same parties were involved at the same time and in the same place. For murder and manslaughter only, the counting units used are victims. Under the definition of a criminal incident (same parties, same time, same place, same offence and same incident type) one murder or manslaughter incident could involve two or more persons being killed. Because of the seriousness of these offences and their relatively small numbers, it was considered to be more appropriate to count the number of victims, rather than the number of criminal incidents. Hence, where one murder incident involves a person killing six people, six murder victims are counted. Recorded crime statistics for some offence categories do not accurately reflect the actual level of crime in the community. This is because the number of incidents recorded may be affected by extraneous factors which are not easily measured. In particular: * Many crimes which occur are not reported to police and will therefore not be recorded - for example, a large number of assaults, sexual assaults and robberies are not reported to police. * Recording of those offences which are detected by, rather than reported to police, are strongly affected by policing practices - examples of these are drug offences, drink driving offences, offensive behaviour and receiving stolen goods. Recorded rates for such offences do not accurately reflect actual rates. * Sydney Local Government Area, and therefore Inner Sydney Statistical Subdivision, has high recorded crime rates because, compared with other regions, the resident population is small relative to the number of people in the area. In other words the area has a high user population which is not reflected in the denominator of the rate calculation. * Recorded crime rates in Local Government Areas with small population sizes are not always a good indicator of offending. Crime rates in areas with populations under 3,000 may be unreliable and should be interpreted with caution
Graduate Destination Survey, 2003 (Research Based Higher Degree)
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
South Australian work experience survey, 1983
No full textThis study's aim was to gain a clearer picture of how schools organised their work experience programs and what type of employment students were placed in. It is the first comprehensive State-wide examination of Work Experience Programs in South Australian schools. The first three sections of the report cover information on placements, numbers involved, locations, problems, abuses and difficulties. The survey indicates difficulties arising from lack of resources/time in schools, inadequate counselling of students, limited contact with employers and extremely sex-stereotyped placements. Topics covered were the numbers of male and female students enrolled in the program and the numbers placed in employment in each secondary grade; the number of teachers who assisted with the organisation of the program; assessment of the adequacy of time allocated to the program; strategies for locating employers willing to participate; counselling of students and follow up activities; problems encountered with the program; views on the aims of the program, and whether these aims had been met well; opinions on the amount of support needed from within the school to effectively run a program; and the numbers of male and female students placed, within specified broad occupational groupings. Background information was also collected on the location of the school and the total number of secondary enrolments
Promotion of the Health Care Professions to Rural Secondary Students, 1992-1993
No full textThe long term aim of this project was to increase the percentage of rural students applying for health related tertiary courses in Australia, in the hope that they would return to rural areas to work. The survey was conducted on year 10 students in rural Victorian schools in October 1992. Information was collected regarding students' perspective of careers and intended subject choice. Students were then given a promotional booklet and video and surveyed again between June and August 1993. The second and third surveys were designed to measure the effect of the promotional package on students' career and subject choice. The questionnaire contained most of the same questions, so that comparisons could be made, as well as questions directly related to the video and booklet
Australian Federal Election Returns, 2004
No full textThe Federal Election Candidate Study holds polling information for the 2004 Australian Federal Election. Variables include the sex, party, electorate, state, house, votes, ballot details and the result for each candidate. A percentage measure of Labor two party preferred for the years of 1998, 1996, 1993 , 1990 and 2001 is included
Community Attitudes Towards Smoking in Public Places, 1991
No full textThe purpose of this study was to investigate attitudes towards smoking in public places as well as to identify factors which may influence those attitudes. The main aim was to see whether government bans on smoking were supported by public opinion. A secondary aim was to look at who actually quits smoking. The main variables basically fall into the categories of smoking in public places, passive smoking, smoking in eating places, seating preference, and the proportion of non-smoking seating. Background variables are sex, age, education, employment, patterns of tobacco use and patterns of tobacco use in family, friends and co-workers
National Campaign Against Drug Abuse Social Issues Survey, 1993
No full textThis study is the fourth in a series of national household surveys to examine current attitudes towards drugs and drug problems, usage of drugs, and to assess changes in these attitudes and usage over the period 1985-1993. The three earlier studies were Social Issues in Australia, 1985; the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse Social Issues Survey, 1988; and the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse Social Issues Survey, 1991. The questionnaire asked respondents about their degree of concern about various social issues and drugs. Opinions were sought on suggested ways of preventing excessive use of alcohol, the banning of smoking in public places, the availability of drug information and services, the impact of the Drug Offensive campaign, the distribution of the expenditure for reducing drug abuse, and penalties for the sale and supply of drugs. A sealed section of the questionnaire allowed respondents to indicate their usage of each drug without the interviewer being aware of their answers. The drugs covered were: alcohol, amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine/crack, ecstasy/designer drugs, hallucinogens, heroin, inhalants (eg. glue, petrol), marijuana/hash, pain killers/analgesics, steroids, tobacco/cigarettes and tranquillisers. Respondents were also asked if they had been victims of physical and/or verbal abuse and property damage and/or theft by someone affected by alcohol or had themselves committed these offences when under the influence. Background variables included geographical location, sex, age group, birthplace, employment status and occupation of self and spouse, education status, and the number and ages of other people in the household
Patterns of tobacco smoking in Australia:3, 1980
No full textVariables on smoking habits include type of smoker; when respondent gave up smoking; change in cigarette smoking in last two years; and brand, type and number of cigarettes smoked. Background variables are age, life-cycle stage of respondent and grocery buyer, country of birth, marital status, level of education, employment status, income of respondent and breadwinner, occupation of respondent and breadwinner, employment sector, number of children under 16, ages and sex of children, number in household, sex, phone, number of televisions, sex and age of grocery buyer, religion, whether enrolled to vote, and size of town
Health care surveys of Gosford-Wyong and Illawarra regions, New South Wales, 1975
No full textThese surveys aimed to provide information which would assist with the monitoring, evaluation and planning of health services. They were concerned with measuring actual morbidity, perceived health, access to health care and attitudes to existing health care, particularly emergency services, in the population. Information was collected on recent illness (complaints and conditions experienced in last two weeks), chronic illness and emotional health (as measured by the General Health Questionnaire). Utilisation questions included health care attitudes, social contact, support and participation, life events, child health, use of doctors, use of dentists, use of medicines, use of hospitals, use of emergency services and use of maternal and baby health services. Medications investigated included pain relievers, cough and cold remedies, allergy medication, skin ointments or salves (not cosmetics), laxatives, tranquillisers and other 'nerve' tablets, sleeping pills, vitamins or tonics, heart or blood pressure tablets, birth control pills and others as nominated by the respondent. Respondents were questioned concerning whether they had used any of these in the last two days, how many different types of each and whether they were prescribed. Background variables included age, sex, marital status, geographical area, country of birth, duration of residence in Australia, household and family composition, duration of residence in locality, major activity, occupational group, educational status, income (derived from Henderson poverty index), commuter status and health insurance.
The data are held in eight files, four for adults and four for children, with separate files for each sex and region. File names refer to Illawarra women (iaf); Gosford-Wyong women (gaf); Illawarra men (iam); Gosford-Wyong men (gam); Illawarra girls (icf); Gosford-Wyong girls (gcf); Illawarra boys (icm); Gosford-Wyong boys (gcm)
Preliminary survey on short wave radios in Australia, 1975
No full textThe purpose of this survey was to collect information on the radio listening habits of the Australian population. Topics include: number of radios in household; radio bands available on household radios; general and overseas station listening frequency; languages listened to; awareness of news from media sources in the past week; importance of and interest in international affairs; travel. Background variables include: age, origin, marital status, education, work status, income, number of children and adults in household, TV and phone in household. Data not available on Nesstar. Please contact archive staff at [email protected] if you wish to access these data