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Graduate Destination Survey, 1986
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
Graduate Destination Survey, 1995
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
Medical Care of Doctors, New South Wales, 1993
No full textThe purpose of this survey was to establish the level of health of medical practitioners in N.S.W., and what sort of health care they received. The main variables were use of a general medical practitioner, type of medical practitioner usually consulted, type of medical practitioner they would consult for a range of hypothetical problems, health problems they may suffer from, self treatment with prescription only medications, preventative behaviours, whether they discussed blood pressure, drinking habits, stress, or weight and diet with their medical practitioner. Background variables, include age, sex location and type of medical practice
Sydney Older Persons Study: Wave 5, 2000 - 2003
No full textThe Sydney Older Persons Study is a longitudinal study aiming to increase the understanding about ageing successfully, with a focus on the definition, consequences and possible causes of neurodegenerative disorders. Over a 10 year period, participants aged 75 years and older were regularly tested on their mental and physical function. Over the span of the study, the average age was 89 years old, including 15 participants who were over 100 years old. The fifth and final wave of the study involved the subgroup of participants from Wave 4 who underwent an MRI scan and further neuropsychological assessment. These same participants underwent another MRI scan, more detailed neuropsychological assessment and a complete medical review. The spouses, family members or friends who were interviewed in the earlier waves were also re-interviewed in order to measure the presence of any health changes and their impact over time. Background variables include age, gender, country of birth, parents' country of birth, marital status and main language spoken. For any further information, please refer to the Project Summary provided by the Ageing Research Centre: http://www.sesahs.nsw.gov.au/powh/arc/projects.as
National Social Science Survey, 1993
No full textThis file is the sixth in the National Social Science Survey (NSSS) series and is a panel of respondents from the National Social Science Survey 1989/90: Family and Changing Sex Roles and the National Social Science Survey 1990: Lifestyles, 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 (ZA Study 2150, Religion, 1991, ZA Study 2310, Inequality II 1992). 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; experience of crime; church services; parents' participation in cultural activities when respondent was growing up, and respondents participation in those activities then and now; standard of living when growing up and now; freedom of the Press; leisure activities; courtship and marriage; abortion; attitudes to medical ethics and preventable diseases. The Inequality module covers perceived prerequisites for success; social mobility; importance of hierarchical pay structure; estimates of actual and ideal salaries for various work positions; appropriateness of tax levels; conflicts between social groups; deciding factors in pay rates; actual and ideal social structure, and respondents' position in the structure. The Religion module focuses on the impact of religious beliefs and behaviours on social, political and moral attitudes. Variables include government responsibility; sexual relations; working women; belief in God, the Devil, heaven, hell and life after death; the influence of religious leaders on voting and government decisions; church attendance and involvement in other religious activities; image of God and image of the world. Background variables include respondents' education and qualifications, income and standard of living, trade union membership, religion, and the education of the respondents' parents and the religion of the respondents' spouse
Western Australia Criminal Trials 1830-1861
No full textCriminal Trials at Quarter Sessions, Western Australia 1830-1861. Prior to the establishment of the Supreme Court in 1861 all criminal trials were at Quarter Sessions from 1830. Data taken from Prosecution Project collection of Western Australia Supreme Court trials. Data includes name, sex, offence, verdict, sentence, trial judge, trial date, and links to press reports in Trove (NLA) database of digitised newspaper
Structural properties of groups, 1976-1978: File 78d
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
1990 New Zealand Election Study
No full textThis post-election survey focused on voting trends and decision-making in the 1990 New Zealand general election. Voters were questioned on: the importance to them of various issues such as inflation, unemployment, economic growth, defence, health, social 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 1984 and 1987 elections; reasons for and timing of voting decisions. Background variables include sex, age, country of birth, place of residence, racial, religious and class identity, personal income, marital status, level of education, employment status and supervisory responsibilities of respondent and partner, number of dependent children and household income
Household and Family Formation in Nineteenth-Century Tasmania, 1838-1899: Deaths
No full textThe Household and Family Formation in Nineteenth-Century Tasmania study was begun in the early 1990s when the ARC funded the transcription of microfilmed Births, Deaths and Marriages registers held by the Archives Office of Tasmania. The resulting computer database contained 152,000 records for births (1838-1891), 93,000 records for deaths (1838-1899), and 51,000 records for marriages (1838-1899). In 2004, the ARC provided further funding for the transcription, cleaning and coding of the remainder of 40,000 records for births and 1,000 records for deaths. The data were then used to establish a cause-of-death classification system and ascertain age-sex-cause-specific mortality rates over the nineteenth century in Tasmania. There are three data files in the series; Births, Deaths and Marriages. This particular data set refers to the Deaths records. Background variables include date of birth, gender, and marital status
Australian family formation project, Melbourne survey, 1977: Recently married women survey
No full textThis survey consists of three segments: a follow-up survey of respondents first interviewed in 1971; a survey of recently married women; and a survey of never married males and females aged 18 to 25. Topics investigated were age at and reasons for leaving parents' home, subsequent living arrangements, child care arrangements where applicable, personal relationships, history of contraceptive use, and attitudes to sexual intercourse, contraception, family planning, family formation, spacing of children and family size. An omnibus section in each study asked for opinions on marriage, child-bearing, the role of women, assistance to parents and personal expectations. A final section consists of in-depth questions about attitudes to child-rearing, marriage, over population, pressures on housewives and working wives, the women's liberation movement, and motherhood. Background variables were date of birth, birthplace of self, parents and spouse (if applicable), education, occupation, employment status, income, holidays abroad and ownership of pets and consumer durables