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Australian Election Study Online, 2001
No full textThe study was designed to test the use of the web as a methodological tool for survey research in national election studies. The online survey ran a truncated set of questions from the Australian Election Study, 2001 that was conducted as a post-election mail-out and mail-back survey. The goal was to compare the results from this new form of polling methodology with those from the more established method to see how far the two modes yielded comparable results. As opinion polls become more costly to fund and response rates drop, survey researchers are looking for new and more cost effective ways to run election studies. Although the web is being increasingly used for opinion polling it has attracted significant criticism due to the non-probalistic nature of the samples it generates. The aim of this study was to subject web-based surveys to greater scientific scrutiny in order to assess their methods.
The online survey replicates many questions from the previous Australian Election Studies, including a section on political and social institutions. Other sections cover the respondent's interest in the election campaign and politics, their past and present political affiliation, evaluation of parties and candidates, alignment with parties on various election issues, evaluation of the current economic situation, and attitudes to a range of election issues including immigration, refugees and asylum seekers, terrorism, taxation, unemployment, and workers entitlements.
Background variables include level of education, employment status, occupation, type of employer, position at workplace, trade union membership, sex, age, own and parents' country of birth, parents' political preferences, religion, marital status, income, and where applicable, the occupation, trade union membership and political preference of the respondent's spouse
Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, 2003
No full textThe 2003 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) is the first in a biennial series that studies social attitudes and behaviour of Australian citizens for the Australian and international research community. AuSSA provides cross-sectional data on the social attitudes and behaviour of Australians, repeating a core questionnaire for each cross-section and fielding specific modules relevant to the changing needs of the social research community. AuSSA is Australia's official survey in the International Social Survey Program and regularly includes ISSP modules. AuSSA 2003 includes the ISSP's National Identity module.
The 2003 Survey includes attitudes and behaviours that are organised into seven standard categories: Describing Australia; Community Life; The Law and Authority; Families and Relationships; Australia and the World; Taxes and Government Services; and Work, Education and Living Standards.
AuSSA 2003 also includes demographic and behavioural variables that survey: sex, year born, income, education, employment, home ownership, union membership, languages spoken, birthplace, ancestry, household composition and religion. Also included are questions about the partner of the respondent: employment, highest level of education and income
Australian Election Study Combined Data, 2001
No full textThe 2001 Australian Election Study is the sixth in a series of surveys beginning in 1987 that have been timed to coincide with Australian Federal elections. The series also builds on the 1967, 1969 and 1979 Australian Political Attitudes Surveys. The Australian Election Studies aim to provide a long-term perspective on stability and change in the political attitudes and behaviour of the Australian electorate, and investigate the changing social bases of Australian politics as the economy and society modernise and change character. In addition to these long-term goals they examine the political issues prevalent in the election and assess their importance for the election result.
The 2001 mail survey replicates many questions from the previous Australian Election Studies, but also introduces a variety of new questions including a section on political and social institutions.The online survey ran a truncated set of questions from the mail survey which was conducted as a post-election mail-out and mail-back survey. The goal was to compare the results from this new form of polling methodology with those from the more established method to see how far the two modes yielded comparable results. As opinion polls become more costly to fund and response rates drop, survey researchers are looking for new and more cost effective ways to run election studies. Although the web is being increasingly used for opinion polling it has attracted significant criticism due to the non-probalistic nature of the samples it generates.
These data are combined data files for Online and Mail AES 2001 Surveys
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No full textAbstract not availableWardill, Hannah R., Van Sebille, Ysabella Z.A., Bowen, Joanne M., Gibson, Rachel J
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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