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Children's Attitudes to Television, 1993
No full textThis research study is the first part of a larger project which assesses the overall picture of what children like and dislike about television. The data represents the quantative stage of the study on children's attitudes to violence, kissing and swearing on television. The research technique involved taking small groups of primary school students through a self-complete questionnaire. A follow-up stage with the parents of the children surveyed was conducted after the child survey. The research looks at the issues from a child's perspective. Children were asked questions relating to the timing and frequency of their television viewing; what programs/issues they do not like to view; the degree to which they perceived rules and routines were imposed upon them about their television viewing; what they were concerned about in television programs; and their attitudes to television classification issues such as depictions of swearing, violence, kissing and nudity. Parents were asked similar questions for comparative purposes. Background variables for the children's survey included age and sex. Background variables for the parent's survey included age, sex and relationship to child.
File contains 00963-c and 00963-p datasets
Victorian Supreme Court Criminal Trials 1855-1878
No full textThis dataset is derived from the Prosecution Project collection of information on indictable trials at Victorian Supreme Court in Melbourne and on circuit from 1855-1878. The data includes name and sex of offender, offence, verdict, sentence, judge, trial date, trial location, and in some cases links to press reports in the Trove (NLA) database of digitised newspapers
Youth Research Centre Life Patterns Project 1991-1997 (superseded)
No full textThe Youth Research Life Pattern Project is a progressive longitudinal analysis of Victorian students' life experiences, aspirations and expectations for the future. The aim of this study was to identify barriers to participation in, and effective delivery of, programs in vocational education and training. The original database included 29,155 Victorian students who were planning to finish schooling in 1991. These participants were resurveyed a year later. In 1995, a matched sample of participants who were representive of the original set were contacted and completed a detailed survey to provide an up-date on their progress. Annual surveys were also completed in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Variables include work and study involvement, area of study, stage of study, current employment, lifetime goals, future career aspirations, and attitude towards education and the different education pathways. Background variables include sex, living situations, social background,and disabilities
General Practice Use of Near-patient Testing, Australia, 1994
No full textNear-patient testing (NPT) is defined as 'an investigation performed by or on behalf of the treating doctor on-site, at the time of and for use during the consultation'. General practitioners and their patients, utilising this technology in Victoria, were surveyed by anonymous questionnaire to determine clinical usage, costs and attitudes associated with NPT. The study employed three questionnaires. The first questionnaire was the 'Practice questionnaire' which requested information on demography, clinical usage, equipment costs and attitudes of doctors using NPT, and one 'Practice questionnaire' was filled out by the approved pathology authority (APA) of each practice included in the study. The second questionnaire, the 'Doctor questionnaire', requested information on clinical management relating to each consultation and at which a cholesterol test was performed. The third questionnaire, the 'Patient questionnaire', requested information on demographic data, costs to the patient and attitudes of the patients attending the consultation. Doctor and Patient questionnaires were coded in pairs, according to consultation. Background variables for patients included: family income, marital status and education. For doctors (APA's), demographic variables included: postgraduate qualifications, institute of graduation, vocational registration status, time in general practice, number of full-time doctors in practice, and total number of patients per week. All respondents were asked to record their age, sex and area (eg rural/provincial/metropolitan).
There are three files included in this study, they are as follows:
General Practice Use of Near-patient Testing, Australia, 1994: Practice File
General Practice Use of Near-patient Testing, Australia, 1994: Patient File
General Practice Use of Near-patient Testing, Australia, 1994: Doctor Encounter Fil
Alcoholism and its prevention in Townsville, 1980
No full textFor the third biennial community survey of Townsville conducted by the University the topic of alcohol consumption, alcoholism and it prevention was chosen because of the relevance of high alcohol consumption and its consequences to social workers. It was proposed that alcoholism in Townsville would be a serious problem because of its tropical location, its "pioneer mentality" and large number of heavy drinkers. Residents of the city of Townsville and the shire of Thuringowa were surveyed concerning their perception of alcohol-related behaviour as alcoholism, their own and their friends patterns of alcohol consumption, including "shouting" behaviour, their opinions of the cause and remedy of alcoholism and their support for intervention alternatives. Demographic variables related to the education of the household, length of and satisfaction with residence in the community, occupation and religious and political preferences as well as age, sex, marital status and income
Structural properties of groups, 1976-1978: File 77c
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
Household and Family Formation in Nineteenth-Century Tasmania, 1838-1899: Births
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 Births records. Background variables include date of birth, gender, and marital status
Community Health Needs Study: Inala-Ipswich Corridor, 1994
No full textThe Inala-Ipswich Corridor Community Health Needs Study is a component of the Better Building Cities Program which aims to improve the quality of the living environments for residents in the Ipswich-Inala corridor and to hasten the pace of institutional reform at the Wolston Park Hospital Complex at Wacol and the Challinor Centre at Ipswich. The objectives of the study were to undertake a comprehensive community assessment of the corridor population in conjunction with State and Local Goverment departments; to determine current and potential future health needs for the Corridor consistent with trends in population projections, and to assess community expectations and utilisation of health and related services. Residents of the corridor were asked to provide information on the following: ownership of private health insurance; use and location of, and preference for, health services such as hospitals and dental clinics; consultations with GPs and the result of these consultations; referral to and use of specialists; awareness of kinds of health facilities in the West Moreton region and those that were used; satisfaction with services in the areas, and health services deemed necessary for the area. Background variables include age, sex, age when left school, post-school qualifications, employment status, main source of income, use of pensions or benefits, length of time lived in West Moreton region; main language spoken at home and structure of household
Community Attitudes Towards Domestic Violence, Australia, 1987
No full textIn December 1987 a national survey was conducted to assess community attitudes towards domestic violence in Australia. The objectives of the survey were to broadly assess community perceptions on domestic violence; to identify key issues or attitudes which require attention; to provide benchmark data to monitor the effectiveness of an information campaign; and to identify attitudinal and demographic groups in the community to be targeted in such a campaign. Topics covered include perceptions of problems facing families, and the Australian community; perceptions of domestic violence as a problem; the acceptability of physical force; those at risk from, and those responsible for, domestic violence; the justification under different circumstances for a range of actions, and whether these actions are classified as domestic violence; help for victims; attitudes to common community statements on domestic violence; and whether the respondent knows personally a victim of, or someone responsible for, domestic violence. Background variables include age, sex, residence, education level, marital status, ethnic grouping, job status, occupation and household composition
Overseas arrivals and departures, Australia, 1980 - 1994: unit record data: File b80
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 1980. 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