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Australian Gallup Polls, June 1985: Immigration program
No full textThe Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs commissioned McNair Andersion Associates to conduct this poll of attitudes to immigration as part of the regular McNair Market Monitor for two weekends in June 1985. The immigration poll consisted of five questions concerning attitudes to the size of migrant intake, rights of family members to migrate, rights of successful business workers to migrate, the global approach to refugees, and the impact of migrants on unemployment. Background variables include household composition, country of birth, marital status, level of education, age and sex
1987 New Zealand Election Study
No full textThis post-election near-national survey focussed on voting trends and decision-making in the 1987 New Zealand general election. Voters were questioned on: the importance to them of various issues such as inflation, unemployment, growth, defence, health and welfare, law and order, education; which party was most likely, as a government, to address these issues; opinions on existing policies, leaders of major parties and speed and direction of government actions; trends in respondent's financial status; party identification of respondent and parents; voting in the 1981 and 1984 general elections; reasons for and timing of voting decisions. Background variables include year of birth, level of education, employment status and supervisory responsibilities of respondent and partner, marital status, voting electorate, number of dependent children and household income
Building a New Life in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants, Release 5 (Waves 1-5)
No full textBuilding a New Life in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants (BNLA) aims to identify factors which help or hinder positive settlement outcomes. BNLA follows 1,509 humanitarian migrating units who arrived in Australia or had their permanent visas granted in the six months between May and December 2013. Participants include offshore visa holders who arrived in Australia holding a permanent humanitarian visa and onshore visa holders who received their permanent protection visa between May and December 2013. Wave 1 took place from October 2013 to February 2014 interviewing 2,399 principal and secondary applicants. The first five waves of data collection were conducted annually. Waves 1, 3 and 5 interviews were conducted face-to-face and waves 2 and 4 interviews were conducted by telephone. The survey and participant materials were translated into 14 languages in Wave 1 and nine languages in Waves 2–5. Interviews were conducted by bilingual interviewers; some interviews also used interpreters (interviews were conducted in nineteen languages in total in Waves 1 and 2, thirteen languages in Wave 3, eleven languages in Wave 4, and ten languages in Wave 5). Shorter telephone interviews omit some of the questions asked in the longer face-to-face interviews. Topics covered by the study include: demographics, immigration experience, housing and neighbourhood, English language proficiency, education and training, employment and income, health, self-sufficiency, community support, personal resources and life satisfaction, and life in Australia. Researchers interested in using this data should note: (1) BNLA does not include data about migrants in the family and skilled streams of the permanent Migration Program; (2) BNLA only includes humanitarian migrants who arrived/were granted a visa during a specific time period; (3) Analysis at the state level is not possible
Australian two-party preferred votes, 1949-1982: File n4
No full textThis data file brings together the 'two-party-preferred vote' figures for Commonwealth and State elections conducted in the period 1949-82. No figures are given for state elections in Tasmania because its proportional representation system is not readily amenable to this technique. For each electoral division or district, the record for a particular election contains the numbers of ALP and non-ALP votes and the corresponding percentages (to one decimal place)
Australian Candidate Study, 2001
No full textThe 2001 Australian Candidate Study is the sixth in a series of election studies on federal election candidates. In 2001, candidates from the following parties were surveyed - Labor, Liberal, National, Democrat, the Greens and One Nation. The study examined the prominent election issues, including attitudes to particular economic issues, and opinions on what are considered to be the most critical problems facing Australia. Opinions on other political issues such as security relations with other countries, assistance for Aborigines and women, and social issues such as abortion and pornography were also sought. A section on political and social institutions includes questions on the Australian democratic system, the role of the Monarchy, immigration and racism. In addition, the survey asked questions relating to the political background, such as electoral history, political party involvement and membership of community organisations. A section on campaigning asked for the amount of time candidates spent on campaign activities and the amount of support received from various sources. ALP candidates were also asked a series of questions on ALP factions. Background variables include age, country of birth, age when left school, number of years of tertiary study, religion, frequency of attending religious services, marital status, House contested and party affiliated with
Australian Election Study, 1987-2019 Trends
No full textThe tables in this excel file can be used to produce graphs on Australian politics, without the need to conduct analyses separately on the Australian Election Study (AES) data files for individual years. The tables in this file match the charts contained in the report, Trends in Australian Political Opinion: Results from the Australian Election Study 1987-2019 (Cameron and McAllister 2019). The tables also break down these trends by gender, age group, education level, and vote in the House of Representatives, as presented graphically in the AES interactive charts, available on the AES website. AES question items are included where there is time series data spanning at least three elections. The tables are grouped into eleven themes, including: 1) The election campaign; 2) Voting and partisanship; 3) Election issues; 4) The economy; 5) Politics and political parties; 6) The left-right dimension; 7) The political leaders; 8) Democracy and institutions; 9) Trade unions, business and wealth; 10) Social issues; and 11) Defence and foreign affairs
Overseas arrivals and departures, Australia 1975-1981: six-monthly detailed tables: File a75
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). This study represents data collected for the year 1975. Information collected includes category of travel, duration of stay, country of birth, citizenship, and dis/embarkation, as well as age, marital status and sex, and occupation
MY Australia Census 2017
No full textThis project evaluates the status of multicultural youth by developing Australia’s first national status reporting framework and building a multicultural youth knowledge hub. The MY Australia Census examines social, cultural and economic indicators that provide valuable data on how multicultural young people are faring. The MY Australia Census was conducted online in 2017 with 1920 respondents. A further 98 multicultural youth participated in qualitative research between 2016 and 2018
National Social Science Survey, 1994
No full textThis file is the seventh in the National Social Science Survey (NSSS) series and repeats many of the questions asked in the previous rounds. The survey also includes questions asked as part of the International Social Survey Programme. Comparative data from all countries in the Programme are processed and distributed by the Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung (ZA) at the University of Cologne (Private Business and Government Enterprises, and Environment II). The data file contains a wide range of attitudinal questions. Sections cover attitudes to government policies; trade unionism; attitudes to political leaders, parties and election issues; voting and party identification; feeling thermometer ratings of political leaders, groups and institutions; standard of living when growing up and now; courtship and marriage; abortion; euthanasia; religious beliefs and behaviours; sexual relations; working women. The Private Business and Government Enterprises module covers quality of private business and government enterprises. The Inequality module covers government regulation of business; importance of hierarchical pay structure; estimates of actual and ideal salaries for various work positions; conflicts between social groups; deciding factors in pay rates; actual and ideal social structure, and respondents' position in the structure. The Environment module includes opinions on science and nature, government involvement in environmental protection; pollution and the effects on the environment and health; behaviours to protect the environment, such as recycling; and environmental group membership. Background variables include respondents' occupation, education and qualifications; income, assets and standard of living; trade union membership, political orientation, and religion; birthplace of parents and grandfathers, education and political orientation of parents and spouse, education of grandfathers, children and siblings
Graduate Destination Survey, 2000
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