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Inquiry into education and training (Williams inquiry): national educational survey, 1977
No full textOn behalf of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, surveys of students and staff in all sectors of Australian post-secondary education were conducted to gather basic information on career choice, preparation and planning; the characteristics of students and staff, and to survey attitudes towards certain issues of importance to post secondary education in the seventies. In this survey of students, background variables are age, sex, educational and occupational background of parents, country of birth (self/parents) and number of years lived in Australia (self/parents), religious denomination, whether married/have dependent children, source of financial support and income level (self/parents)
Structural properties of groups, 1976-1978: File 77d
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
Secondary school mathematics in Australia, 1978: File sc3
No full textThis is the second survey of the mathematical performance of secondary school students in Australia, undertaken to examine changes in this area since the first survey in 1964 (see SSDA study no. 70). Students completed mathematics tests; a word knowledge test; an opinion questionnaire on the importance of mathematics, the facility of mathematics, school enjoyment and control over the environment; and a background questionnaire on demographic and mathematical education variables. Questionnaires were also completed by teachers and school principals
Negotiating the Life Course, 2000, Wave 2
No full textNegotiating the Life Course is designed to study the changing life courses and decision-making processes of Australian men and women as the family and society move from male breadwinner orientation in the direction of higher levels of gender equity. The project has six aims: to extend the theories of human capital and new home economics in explaining women's and men's labour force participation; to map women's and men's work trajectories over their life course, from career entry into retirement, and to develop explanatory models of career trajectories; to identify those aspects of the family-household system and the labour market that facilitate or impede women's involvement with the labour market; to investigate the interrelationships between labour force decisions about family formation and household arrangements; to identify the portfolio of resources that women and men draw upon throughout their lives when making decisions about career and family; and to assess the policy implications of the findings of the project for the institutions of the welfare state, the labour market and the family. Wave 1 was conducted in 1997 (ADA No. 01015) and this second wave was conducted in 2000. Variables across the waves include relationship and fertility histories, household work, child care arrangements, future objectives, attitudes to work, promotion, children and relationships. Background variables across the waves include parental country of birth, employment, occupation and education, respondent's and spouse's place of residence, education, income, housing, religion, health status,birthplace, marital status and household composition
Melbourne radio 2 survey, 1978
No full textThe aim is to collect general information about 3AR Listeners, including their program preferences on that station, their television viewing habits, their pastimes etc. The aim of the survey was to use this information to build up a profile of 3AR listeners for programming purposes. Topics covered include: radio listening habits; radio stations listened to in the last seven days; stations listened to for news; other 3AR programme types to which the respondent listens; segment of the day during which the respondent listens to 3AR; 3AR programmes to which the respondent listens, comments about these programmes and which programmes should be continued or discontinued if the A.B.C. decided to cut down its programming; type and location of radios owned; particular types of programmes that the respondent likes to hear on FM radio; television viewing habits; television programmes watched last night and whether that is about the amount that the respondent would watch on an ordinary week night/ Saturday/ Sunday; hobbies and activities; whether the respondent goes late night shopping and the time usually arrived home after such shopping; attitudes to radio listening; the amount of spoken word material preferred in radio programmes and whether that amount varies according to the time slot; the respondent's plan for the broadcast which is most pleasing; if given the opportunity to plan a program or a series for 3AR, the type of program it would be and the time it would be broadcast; attitude to radio programme and station selection; music preferences; and, newspapers and magazine readership. Background information includes age, sex, education level, occupation, household composition, vote intention, and whether the respondent is willing to be reinterviewed. Data refers to period from 7 September, 1978 to 15 September, 197
Australian electoral division 1984 and census, 1981
No full textIn 1984 the Australian Federal Electoral Division boundaries were altered. This data file links the new Electoral Divisions with the Census 1981 Collectors District field code. This will allow aggregation of the 7 page, 34 table Census 1981 CD Summary file data to the new Electoral Division boundaries, links to the digitised boundary files, and CD level data within the new electorates. The file covers all CDs in Australia. The variables in the file are State, Census Division, Census Sub-division, Census Collectors District (these four variables combine to form the 1981 CD field code), 1981 LGA code, 1984 Australian Electoral Division (AED) code, and the 1981 AED code
Adaptation of migrants, 1979-1982: File 82l
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.
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Overseas arrivals and departures, Australia, 1980 - 1994: unit record data: File b82
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 1982. 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
Mass media use in Australia, 1979
No full textA broad survey of media use based on a national sample was considered essential to a better understanding of the mass media and their effect and operations in Australia. As information collected in a 1966 survey had become increasingly dated, it was considered important to repeat the national survey if more closely focussed works were going to ask why the patterns uncovered had established themselves. As well, sufficient change had taken place in media use and evaluation in Australia to warrant some attention being given to the period after the television medium had become firmly established. Topics investigated were newspaper readership, radio ownership, and stations and programmes listened to, television set ownership, frequency of watching and programmes watched, opinions on political coverage and bias of the mass media, and political party preference. Background variables were country of birth, party voted for in elections, occupation, sex, level of schooling, age, self-assessed social class, number of persons and children in household, ages of these children, trade union membership and telephone ownership