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Asian Barometer Survey Wave 5 (Australia)
No full textThe Asian Barometer Study (Australia) is the Australian component of the Asian Barometer Study, which is in turn part of the Global Barometer Surveys (GBS), the world's most comprehensive study of social, political, and economic attitudes.
This study is the first time that the Asian Barometer – in collaboration with universities across Australia and internationally – has been conducted in Australia.
The study is funded by the Australian National University and data collection is being carried out by the Social Research Centre.
The GBS is a collaborative research project consisting of six regional barometers. It is the first comprehensive effort to measure the current social, political, and economic climate around the world. It provides an independent, scientific, and multidisciplinary view of public opinion on a range of policy-relevant issues. Currently, the GBS network currently is conducted in 93 countries, with covers 70% of the world’s population and is still expanding.
In each country, the same questions are asked (in a range of languages) to compare views on democracy, governance, work, political participation, and general social activity
Standards Monitoring Study, 1990
No full textThe Standards Monitoring Study was undertaken with the broad aim of achieving a better understanding of implementation of the nursing home outcome standards, which the Commonwealth government introduced in July 1987. The study sampled two populations, all persons who had worked as a standards monitor in the Australian Commonwealth's standards monitoring process since 1987, and all persons who were working as managers in the standards monitoring process in the Department of Community Services and Health in 1990. Variables were similar for each of the sampled populations and included attitudes to outcome standards; perceptions of useful tools and approaches for motivating compliance with the standards; the ranking of reasons for not meeting nursing home standards; and attitudes to nursing homes and standards monitoring teams. Background variables include state; sex; employment status; occupation and educational attainment
Tasmanian visitor survey, 1978
No full textThe primary objective of the study was to estimate the volume of visitor travel to Tasmania and to obtain information on certain aspects of tourist travel. Topics covered include: main purpose for travel; factor which prompted visitor to choose Tasmania; length of stay; nights spent in accommodation; main form of transport within the State; expenditure in Tasmania; number of previous visits; and, participation in selected activities. Background variables include age, sex, employment, income, postcode (Australian visitors) or country (overseas visitors) of home address, purpose of travel, date, and, mode and point of departure
Comparison of Country and Metropolitan General Practice, 1990-1991
No full textThe comparison of country and metropolitan general practice was intended to provide a description of country general practice in Australia. It was also intended to determine the extent to which country and metropolitan general practice differ in terms of the characteristics of the practitioners, the morbidity managed, treatments provided and the availability of support services, specialists and hospitals. This study was run in conjunction with the Australian Morbidity and Treatment Survey (00644). Background variables include age and sex of the patient and doctor, education and other qualifications, languages spoken, size of practice and length of time in general practice
Breath alcohol levels of the general driving population, Adelaide, 1979
No full textAs part of a study of the association between alcohol consumption and road crash involvement, a survey of the extent of alcohol usage by the general population of drivers was conducted in the Adelaide metropolitan region. The survey involved obtaining a blood alcohol reading from breath samples provided by drivers on major roadways. Variables of interest were age, sex, time period, day and site. Interviewers also provided a subjective assessment of whether the respondent was drunk or sober
Quality, staffing and standards in Commonwealth subsidised hostels for the aged
No full textThis study was commissioned by the Department of Social Security to investigate the quality of hostel care, accommodation and staffing; to recommend methods of measuring the disabilities of residents, and their care needs; and to determine the type and minimum numbers of staff required to provide and maintain care. Three different types of survey instrument were used in this study. The first, a summary of the residents and the characteristics of the hostel was completed by an appropriate hostel administrator. Information was collected on characteristics of the hostel (number of beds, admission criteria etc), staffing levels, hostel expenditure and questions were also asked about the type of social and physical environment in which the hostel operated. The second form utilised two different data sources: information provided by the hostel staff and hostel records concerning the residents surveyed, and the other collected in a personal interview with the residents themselves. The questions covered admission details, demographic data, involvement in activities, satisfaction with quality of care and quality of life, and physical, mental and emotional health status. Sections of the instrument were devoted to both staff and resident perceptions of the resident's health and well-being in order to ensure that one perspective did not dominate. The third questionnaire was administered to a relative or friend nominated by the resident as visiting reasonably frequently. Questions covered perceptions of the quality of care in the hostel, amount of contact with the resident, and an assessment of the resident's health, activities of daily living, satisfaction and coping abilities
Northern Territory post election survey, 1983
No full textThis is a study of voters and voting behaviour of urban voters in the 1983 Northern Territory election. The survey was conducted immediately after the election. Some questions were designed to allow comparison with the results of the Northern Territory Urban Voters Survey, 1982 [SSDA Study No. 368]. Topics include perceived problems to be dealt with by the Northern Territory Government; voting behaviour in the election just held and in previous territory and federal elections; attitudes towards territory and federal political parties and their policies, in particular their aboriginal policies; future federal voting intention; attitude towards social class structure and class mobility in the Northern Territory; economic development in the Northern Territory. Background variables include work status; occupation; employer status; education level; age; religion; sex; period of residence in the Northern Territory and current town of residence. Data not available on Nesstar. Please contact archive staff at [email protected] if you wish to access these data
Ethnic aged in Melbourne and Sydney, 1984
No full textThis study was conducted with the aim of providing quantitative data on the ethnic aged still living at home, as well as providing comparative data for use with other studies without an ethnic focus (see SSDA Study No. 210, Non-institutionalised aged in Sydney, 1981). Interviews were conducted with persons aged 60 years and over in private dwellings in Melbourne and Sydney, who were born in China, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and Yugoslavia. Topics covered include types of living arrangements, extent of family and community support, use of domiciliary and welfare services, problems experienced at home due to health, income or family circumstances, and unmet needs. Information was also collected on health status, physical mobility and independence, utilisation of services, employment and income, informal support networks and leisure activities including media usage. Background details include age, sex, birthplace of respondent, partner and parents, language facility, marital status and religious affiliation
General Practitioners' Referrals and Investigations, 1991-1992
No full textThe rate at which General Practitioners (GPs) refer patients to specialists and order pathology tests and imaging varies considerably between individual GPs. This study examines patterns of and reasons for referral, pathology and imaging in a group of randomly selected general practitioners in the Hunter Valley. The doctors who agreed to participate in the study were asked to sign a consent form and fill in a demographic questionnaire, which included questions about sex, age, postgraduate qualifications, years in practice, size of practice and practice characteristics. Every doctor was provided with a recording booklet based on one used by the Birmingham Research Unit of the Royal College of General Practitioners. The booklet was designed to record information about the patients age, sex and ,if applicable, details of referral, reason for referral, type of investigation and reason for ordering the investigation. The booklet results in four seperate data files, one each for the details of GP , patient, referral(s) and investigation(s)
1978 New Zealand Pre-election Survey: Lyttelton
No full textThe main aim of the survey was to provide basic background data on electoral behaviour - with special attention to party identification, candidate and issue orientation - during the 1978 New Zealand general election in a highly marginal (National-held) electorate. The study also paid attention to the public's perceptions of the personal characteristics of the four main parties' candidates (that is, Labour, National, Social Credit, and Values Party candidates) in the electorate in an attempt to assess whether a 'personal vote' for or against the candidates could be discerned and quantified. The study was based in the Lyttelton electorate for three main reasons: (i) the representative nature of the seat; (ii) the fact that the electorate had been studied during the two previous New Zealand general elections (in 1972 and 1975); and (iii) the fact that all four main parties had women candidates in the seat