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Victoria: Trials on indictment for bigamy 1855-1942
No full textTrials on indictment for offence of bigamy, Victorian Supreme Court 1855-1942
Australian two-party preferred votes, 1949-1982: File w3
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)
Non-institutionalised aged in Sydney, 1981
No full textThis study was designed to test hypotheses and develop population estimates regarding the social integration and social support of non-institutionalised people aged 60 and over living in Sydney. The core of the questionnaire aimed to identify the individuals who were important to respondents in terms of exchanges of instrumental assistance, emotional closeness, social interaction, and family structure: characteristics of these other persons were also recorded. Other variables included basic demographic and personal characteristics; various objective and subjective measures of functional health and illness; responsibility for household tasks; use of health and social services; knowledge of services: attitudes toward dependency and family relationships; use of time; housing and living arrangements; transport; retirement and income; life satisfaction; political views; and care of parents. Questions measured early life experiences, recent changes and current circumstances. Background variables include age; sex; marital status; bithplace; years of schooling; opccupation of self and spouse; religious affiliation; home ownership; and income level
1993 New Zealand Election Study
No full textThe post-election survey focused on voting trends and decision-making in the 1993 New Zealand general election. Voters were questioned on: parties/politicians and the politics and issues of each; economic policy; attitudes to other policies and values; their attitudes to the extent of representation and the level of participation; party preferences and voting; the role of elections and types of electoral reforms. Background variables include age, sex, country of birth, place of residence, racial, religious and class identity, personal income, marital status, level of education, employment status, income, spouse's employment status and income
Australian Gallup Poll, Survey 58, May 22, 1948
No full textThe Australian Gallup Polls, commissioned by Australian Public Opinion Polls (The Gallup Method) cover the periods of 1943-1968 and 1975-1987. Australian Gallup Polls comprise two subseries: the earlier series conducted by Roy Morgan (1943-1968); and the later series by McNair Anderson Associates (1975-1983). Opinion polls in the earlier series were conducted on a regular basis by Roy Morgan and the current holding of this archive date from July 1943 to August 1968, a total of 89 polls. The data are also available from the Roper Centre, University of Connecticut, U.S.A, where they were originally deposited. Topics covered in this survey are; visits to the pictures, preference for British or American pictures, children's education, naval uniforms, Asiatic wives living in Australia, Prices and Rents Referendum, banning of books, employment prospects next two years and next ten years, religion in schools, attitude to free medicine, and clothes rationing. Standard variables are vehicle and telephone ownership, occupation, religion, economic classification, age, sex, and vote at last Federal election
Aboriginal survey, New South Wales and South Australia, 1965: File m
No full textThe object of the surveys, conducted in New South Wales and South Australia in 1965, was to gain some idea of the social and economic situation of persons identifying as Aboriginal in the more closely settled regions of Australia. Data on households covered household composition, including sex of head of household, visitors, duration of residence, location of dwelling, type of dwelling, land ownership, rent and payments, details of type of construction, facilities, utilities, furnishings and appliances, consumer durables and books/musical instruments, interior and exterior care and maintenance and whether dwellings condemned. Data on individuals included housing, age, sex, marital status, race, relationship to household head, recent absences from home, illnesses, physical disabilities, medical advice sought, medical insurance cover, whether a ward of an organisation, hospital admissions, employment, education, sources of income and membership of community organisations. Females were asked, in addition, about pregnancies, miscarriages, stillbirths and surviving offspring, attendance at pre-natal and baby health clinics and location of other relatives. Males were asked about dependent children; military service; time spent in government institutions; ownership of vehicles, tools of trade, house, real estate, shares, livestock, insurance policies and property; and about trade union membership and hire purchase
Overseas arrivals and departures, Australia 1975-1981: six-monthly detailed tables: File a78
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). Information collected includes category of travel, duration of stay, country of birth, citizenship, dis/embarkation, as well as age, marital status and sex, and occupation
Historical and Colonial Census Data Archive (HCCDA)
No full textThe Historical Census and Colonial Data Archive (HCCDA) is an archive of Australian colonial census publications and reports covering the period from 1833 to 1901, the year of Australia's federation. The complete HCCDA archive is 243 GB in size and includes 18,638 pages of text, and approximately 15000 tables, with full digital images, text conversion and individually identified pages and tables. Please note that the archive contains colonial census reports, but not individual census returns.
The HCCDA archive has been prepared for open access dissemination as described in USER NOTES below.
USER NOTES
The data does not report any details of individuals.
Multiple formats of the census data are available in this dataset:
- All digitised tables by format (ADA.HCCDA.TABLES.zip, ADA.HCCDA.XHTML.zip).
- State and year digitised tables as searchable PDFs (State-year-census.pdf).
- Original scanned volumes zipped by state as PDFs (Colonial Censues state PDF of original scanned volumes.zip).
The HTML tables are also available to access directly from https://hccda.ada.edu.au/ website in two formats:
- collated census tables by state and year.
- individual tables by state/year/page
Overseas arrivals and departures, Australia, 1980 - 1994: unit record data: File b91
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 1991. 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 82c
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.
d030082c - Ratings of worker (R) by employe