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Australian Families Life Course Survey, 1996
No full textThe Australian Families Life Course Study was conceived as an Australian-wide Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) survey, with the broad aim of achieving a better understanding of major demographic and economic changes over the last thirty years, and their implication for family well being and stability. The study focuses on family well being for a range of family types at major transition points wihtin the life course. The data file contains a wide range of attitudinal questions. Sections cover variables relating to relationship history; present relationship; and attitudes towards fertility; parenting; childcare; children's education; grandchildren; parents; siblings; friends and relations; health and caring; attitudes and values to intergenerational transfers; education; workforce participation; retirement; finance; housing and general values. Background variables include age, sex, date of birth, marital status, and country of birth of respondent, main language spoken at home, labour force status, religion and type of dwelling
Graduate Destination Survey, 1992
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
Social issues in Australia, 1985
No full textThe main purpose of the survey was to obtain benchmark data on attitudes to drugs which would assist those involved in the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse Series to prepare and monitor a media campaign. Consequently, the survey focused particularly on the use of and attitudes of people to a list of legal and illegal drugs. The Social issues in Australia 1985 survey led to The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse, which was later followed by the National Drug Strategy Household Survey Series. Topics covered by the survey include: problems affecting the individual, their peers, and the Australian community; drugs thought to be a 'drug problem'; the seriousness of drug problems affecting the general community and the individual; penalties for marijuana use and possession; perceived levels of drug use; personal experience of and attitude to drug use; perceived knowledge about drugs; need for more information about drugs; attitudes to Government response to drugs; attitudes to drugs and drug use; alcohol and tobacco consumption. Background variables include: media use; household type; occupation and occupation status; education and education status; age; sex; marital status; country of birth; geographic location; who was present during the interview and the interviewer's assessment of the openness of the response to the questions
Australian Longitudinal Survey, 1991: Wave 7, Level 2 (Area Sample)
No full textThis is the seventh wave of the youth area sample of the Australian Longitudinal Survey (ALS). (See also SSDA Studies No. 377,410, and 491 for details of the four waves of the ALS list sample. The first six waves of the ALS area sample constitute SSDA Studies No. 413, 421, 489, 542, 607 and 608). The 1991 wave consisted of 2623 interviews. 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 and health. Basic demographic variables include age, sex, size of household, country of birth, racial origin, parental education and occupation, spouse's education, religion, income and whether resident in an urban or rural area
Structural properties of groups, 1976-1978: File 78p
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
Community Attitudes to Road Safety, 1996
No full textThe survey is the ninth in a series of national studies conducted since October 1986 for the Federal Office of Road Safety, designed to monitor key community attitudes toward road safety issues. In most cases, questions that had been asked in the previous wave (1995 survey) were repeated and certain new questions were added. Topics included were factors believed to lead to road crashes; random breath testing; past and present licence holding; frequency of driving or riding a motor vehicle; attitudes to drinking and driving; speeding; wearing of seat belts/child restraints; knowledge of the blood alcohol concentration limit; incidence of being booked for speeding in the last two years; tolerated speeds in rural zones without being booked; and attitudes to state laws requiring people to carry their licence at all times while driving. Background variables include respondent's age, sex, occupation and highest level of education achieved
Overseas arrivals and departures, Australia, 1980 - 1994: unit record data: File b94
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 1994. 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
Adaptation of migrants, 1979-1982: File 82j
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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Giving Australia 2016: Charities and nonprofit organisations survey
No full textGiving Australia 2016 collected comprehensive information from individuals, charitable organisations, philanthropists and businesses in Australia about their giving and volunteering behaviours, attitudes and trends. This study built on information gathered through Giving Australia 2005. This data set includes the anonymised Giving Australia 2016 Charities and nonprofit organisations survey giving survey data. Along with the interviews and focus groups, the survey contributed to answering the following research questions: How are giving and volunteering behaviours changing over time including the use of innovative giving and volunteering platforms? What are the opportunities to grow levels of giving and volunteering among individuals and business? How is the not-for-profit sector’s ability to raise revenue being affected by changes in patterns of giving and volunteering? To what extent are different sectors including arts, community services, environment, health, education etc. changing their fundraising approaches in response to changing patterns of giving and volunteering? What does information about changing patterns of giving and volunteering in 2016 tell us about the future of philanthropy in Australia