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Structural properties of groups, 1976-1978: File 77g
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
Substance Abuse in Intensive Care Unit/Coronary Care Unit Admissions, 1992
No full textThis study was conducted over a three month period and was designed to determine the proportion of admissions and lengths of stay attributed to substance abuse in an Intensive Care (ICU) and a Coronary Care (CCU) unit. Principle diagnoses leading to admission were classified and aetiological fractions were used to estimate the proportion of admissions and beddays which could be atrributed to tobacco, alcohol and other drug use. The survey asked the frequency of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use. Questions were also asked concerning the number of packs of cigarettes smoked per day, and the number of grams of alcohol consumed per day
Structural properties of groups, 1976-1978: File 76a
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
Adaptation of migrants, 1979-1982: File 82e
No full textA sample of families from several European countries were studied by questionnaire in 1979 at the time they appeared for interview with immigration officers in various Australian consulates, and again in 1981 and 1982 following their arrival in Australia. The main concerns of the study were the correlates of adaptive success. The 1979 questionnaire included measures of family structure, interpersonal and community relations, socio- economic status and psychological distress. Over half of this sample replied to a one page mail questionnaire following their arrival in Australia, giving brief information about home ownership, occupational status of the head of household, group membership, use of medical services, pleasant and unpleasant experiences in Australia. The major post-migration interview in 1982 included measures of: the respondent's satisfaction with life circumstances, friends, community, possessions, family, spouse, children, job, school, recreation, housework and national government; improved circumstances through immigration; subjective wellbeing; judged interpersonal traits; and acculturation. Acquaintances of the respondent provided measures of self-esteem, adaptability, inter- personal competence and symptoms of strain. Co-workers provided appraisals of the respondent's performance on the job. Schools in which children were enrolled gave information about the student's performance in school. Judgements of neighbourhood prestige and average cost of a three-bedroom home in that neighbourhood were obtained from real estate agents, and the investigators rated the size and condition of the respondent's home and the condition of the adjacent homes. Most of the same questions were asked of a sample of native Australian families living in Sydney and Canberra for comparison with the new migrants. The 1982 questionnaire was pilot tested on a sample of migrant families in Canberra in 1981.
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Australian candidate study, 1987: File p
No full textThe Australian Candidate Study, 1987 was undertaken in conjunction with the Australian Election Survey, 1987 (SSDA Study No. 445), in order to provide a comparison between the attitudes of the candidates and of the electorate, and to obtain information on the candidates' political background and the support for and obstacles to their candidacy, with a special emphasis on women candidates. Questions on candidates' political background include dates of previous candidacies at local, State and Federal level and when elected; when interest in politics began; length of current party membership and of any previous party membership; voluntary or community organisations involved with; party activities undertaken before becoming a candidate; number of nominees for the candidacy and the number of women nominees. Information was sought on who first encouraged the candidate to stand; the support of family and friends; main source of financial support; obstacles to nomination; negative aspects of the candidacy; and the importance of leaders to the election outcome. Women candidates were asked about their party's attitude towards women candidates; their relations with the women's association of the party; the support received from other women in the party, women's organisations and women politicians; and the importance of women's issues. A section on election issues covered reduced taxes vs. increased social services; the power of trade unions and big business; consumption tax; defence spending; privatisation; uranium mining; marijuana legislation; abortion; benefits for aborigines; law and order; Asian migration; testing for AIDS; opportunities for women; and left-right positions for their own views and those of the major parties. Background information includes age, place of birth of self and parents; year arrived in Australia; age left school; level of qualification; occupation; employment sector; years lived in the electorate; marital status; number of children; partner's occupation; religion and church attendance; union membership; sex; candidate's party; electorate; position on ballot; whether Representatives of Senate candidate; whether incumbent and whether elected
Overseas arrivals and departures, Australia 1975-1981: six-monthly detailed tables: File a76
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
Feasibility of Group Legal Services in Australia: the Public's Attitude to Group Legal Services, 1980
No full textOne of several surveys conducted for the 'Feasibility of Group Legal Services in Australia' project, this survey examines the level of interest by the general public in the idea of group legal services schemes. Such schemes were presented as 'Insurance schemes which would cover the costs of legal advice - like medical insurance covers the cost of medical advice'. Variables include the costs of lawyers' services, importance of limiting the scheme to members of particular groups and their families, being allowed to choose your lawyer and the costs of joining, group legal service schemes, exposure to legal problems, and reasons for not seeking legal advice when needed. Background variables include age, sex, marital status, education, household characteristics, occupation and houshold income
New South Wales Recorded Crime Data 1995 to 2009, Incidents
No full textThe New South Wales Recorded Crime Data is a compiled record of crime data obtained from NSW police records. The data contains information on 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. 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 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
Australian Youth Survey, 1994: Wave 6
No full textThis is the sixth wave of a survey program based on a cohort of young people aged 16-24 in 1994, and known as the Australian Youth Survey (AYS). The first, second, third, fourth and fifth waves of the AYS consitute SSDA study numbers 561, 609, 642,780 and 793 respectively. It is part of a program of longitudial studes known as the Australian Longitudinal Survey (ALS), which is a continuing collection of data from a separate sample of persons who were aged 16-25 in 1985. This 1994 wave of the AYS consisted of 8350 interviews with people aged 16 to 24, split into two files: a new cohort of 1116 16 year olds; and a group of 7234 respondents aged 17 years and over, who were previously interviewed in an earlier wave of the series. A multi-stage household based sample designed to represent all Australians in the age cohort, except those residing in sparsely settled areas, was employed. The survey aims mainly at providing data on the dynamics of the youth labour market, and in particular to address questions which are not readily covered with available sources of cross sectional data. Labour market variables include job history, job search behaviour, job training and transition from school/study to work. Background variables and topics related to the main labour market theme include education, occupation, health and attitudes to women working. Basic demographic variables include age, sex, size of household, country of birth, racial origin, parental education and occupation, religion, income, and whether resident in an urban or rural area. These data are similar ot those collected in the ALS, but concentrate on a younger group to provide current data on issues such as school retention and school to work transition
Australian Longitudinal Survey, 1987: Wave 4, Level 1 (List Sample)
No full textThis is the fourth wave of the Australian Longitudinal Survey (ALS) list sample which has run each year since 1984. The 1987 wave surveyed a sample of 1518 people who were first interviewed in 1984 (see SSDA Study No. 377, Australian Longitudinal Survey 1984: Wave 1, Level 1) and again in 1985 and 1986 (see SSDA Studies No. 410 and No. 420). The 1987 sample comprised people aged 15-24 years (in 1984) and was drawn from Commonwealth Employment Service registers. The survey is aimed principally at examining questions related to long-term unemployment which are difficult to address using available sources of cross-sectional data. Labour market variables include job history, job search behaviour, job training and transition from school/study to work. Background variables and topics related to the main labour market theme include education, occupation, health and attitudes to women working. Basic demographic variables include age, sex, size of household, country of birth, racial origin, parental education and occupation, spouse's education and occupation, religion, income and whether resident in an urban or rural area