The World Values Survey (WVS) series was designed to enable a crossnational, crosscultural comparison of values and norms on a wide variety of topics and to monitor changes in values and attitudes across the globe. This dataset contains the survey data from the Australian component of the sixth wave of the World Values Surveys carried out in 2012. The World Values Survey is the world’s most comprehensive investigation of political and sociocultural change. It is...

The Youth in Transition (YIT) project is a longitudinal study of four nationally representative cohorts of young people. This is the cohort of respondents born in 1975. Variables encompass five primary areas: i. overall test results; ii. secondary school - level attained, educational and employment plans for the future, views on school, type of school attended and reasons for leaving school before completing Year 12; iii. post-secondary education/training including study area, institution attended, qualification received,...

Themes - names: Motor car driving: age, minimum / car theft: penalty / compulsory military training: international postings / education: sex / dental health: fluoride / hotels: age for admission: hours / immigration, Non-European: Asian, rate of / republicanism and monarchy: preference / schools: leaving age / smoking: age; attitude to incl. Dangers; incidence of / Vietnam: withdrawal from. Background variables: age / sex / economic classification / occupation of head of household / religion...

Themes - names: nuclear energy: nuclear powered ships visiting Australia/ nuclear energy: free zone/ nuclear energy: NZ ban on nuclear power ships/ budget/ censorship: videos. Background Variables: age/ sex/ highest level of education/ occupation/ income/ occupation of head of household/ marital status/ vote enrolment at last election/ present voting intention/ home ownership/ number of persons living in dwelling/ country of birth/ leisure activities.

Themes - names: public enterprise: ABC/ aborigines: aid to/ aborigines: sacred sites/ Hawke, R.J.: approval as the Prime Minister/ Peacock, A.S./ Hawke, R.J.: and crime, organised. Background Variables: age/ sex/ highest level of education/ occupation/ income/ occupation of head of household/ marital status/ vote enrolment at last election/ present voting intention/ home ownership/ number of persons living in dwelling/ country of birth/ leisure activities.

Themes - Names: State government administration: satisfaction with/ premiers/ South Africa: trade with; government's attitudes to; apartheid/ arbitration court: v. direct negotiation/ banking: international banks/ public enterprises: Telecom/ public enterprise: privatisation - general; TAA; banking. Background variables: age/ sex/ highest level of education/ occupation/ income/ occupation of head of household/ marital status/ vote enrolment at last election/ present voting intentions/ home ownership/ number of persons living in dwelling/ country of birth/ leisure activities.

Themes-Names: politicians: wages, determination of / judiciary: confidence in / judiciary: conduct / elections, state elections / Hawke, R.J.: approval of as Prime Minister / Howard, J.W.: approval of as Leader of Opposition. Background variables: age / sex / highest level of education / occupation / income / occupation of head of household / marital status / vote enrolment at last election / present voting intention / home ownership / number of persons living in...

Themes-Names: taxation: fringe benefits / Pope: papal visit / Hawke, R.J.: approval of as Prime Minister / Howard, J.W.: approval of as Leader of Opposition. Background variables: age / sex / highest level of education / occupation / income / occupation of head of household / marital status / vote enrolment at last election / present voting intention / home ownership / number of persons living in dwelling / country of birth / leisure activities.

Theme-Names: budgets / public expenditure: reduction in; preferred / Bjelke-Petersen, J. / blood donors / AIDS: blood transfusion. Background variables: age / sex / highest level of education / occupation / income / occupation of head of household / marital status / vote enrolment at last election / present voting intention / home ownership / number of persons living in dwelling / country of birth / leisure activities.

Themes-Names: international relations: Australian intervention in Fiji / Fiji / football: codes followed; attendance / television: number of stations. Background variables: age / sex / highest level of education / occupation / income / occupation of head of household / marital status / vote enrolment at last election / present voting intention / home ownership / number of persons living in dwelling / country of birth / leisure activities.

The 2017 Poll is the thirteenth annual Poll by the Lowy Institute in Australia on public opinion and foreign policy. The 2017 Lowy Institute Poll reports the results of the annual nationally representative telephone opinion survey, conducted between 1 and 21 March 2017 with a sample size of 1200 Australian adults 18 years and older. The Poll has incorporated a broad range of questions about some of Australia's most important relationships, including those with the...

AWIRS 95 was the second comprehensive workplace survey conducted by the Department of Industrial Relations. The AWIRS 95 data release includes data from both the original AWIRS project conducted in 1989/90 (AWIRS 90) and the second project conducted in 1995 (AWIRS 95). AWIRS 95 had similar objectives to the first AWIRS, in that it planned to: provide a comprehensive and statistically reliable data base on Australian workplace industrial relations; stimulate and inform community debate on...

Topics include: timing of public holidays throughout Australia: the continuation of Anzac Day as a public holiday; staggering of school holidays; building of a United States Omega navigational base in Victoria; Australia's encouragement of United States military bases in the Indian Ocean; approval or disapproval of Mr Fraser's and Mr Whitlam's handling of their jobs; electoral support for Mr Hayden as Leader of the Opposition; alternative energy sources Australia should be developing; sale of Australian...

Australian Gallup Polls, April 1977

Themes-Names: demonstrators: demonstrators and demonstrations / Intergovernmental relations: States, abolition of, or new / trade unions: approval or criticism of, incl. Power; size and number of / unemployment: causes of, ways of reducing / uranium. Background Variables: age / sex / highest level of education / occupation / income / occupation of head of household / marital status / vote enrolment at last election / present voting intention.

Australian Gallup Polls, February 1978

Australian Gallup Polls, April 1978

In order to assess the impact of analgesic abuse upon the mortality of the general population and to determine changes in the incidence of renal damage due to the alteration of proprietary analgesic consumption, an autopsy survey was conducted. This involved the examination of kidneys, collection of information on analgesic consumption of the deceased and collection of epidemiological data. Information on analgesic consumption was collected by means of a questionnaire mailed to next of kin...

The purpose is to provide information on service providers for non-English speaking persons. It was conducted in conjunction with the 'Survey of Information, Needs and Use of Services (SINUS)' (ADA No. 303) by the Institute for its Evaluation of Post-Arrival Programs and Services. The two surveys taken together provide two perspectives on services: that of selected groups of migrant clients and that of service providers. Topics covered in GASP include the range and types of...

Australian Gallup Polls, September 1978

Topics covered include: the Soviet Union's activity in Afghanistan and other countries; opinion on the Federal Government's decision to recommend a boycott of the Olympic games; import parity policy on oil; whether the respondent drives a motor vehicle and consciously tries to conserve petrol; opinion on the job performance of Mr Fraser and Mr Hayden; and, for women over age 16, whether she is responsible for all or most of the household shopping, whether she...

Topics include: problems facing Australia today; the respondent's expectations regarding inflation, unemployment, strikes or industrial disputes, shortages of goods, interest rates and company profits and dividends; test tube babies; whether the respondent agrees that Australia should encourage the United States to strengthen American military bases in the Indian Ocean or Australia; whether respondent favours increased defence spending for Australia; compulsory military service; and, for women whether she is responsible for all or most of the...

Topics include: leisure time activities; problems that Australians may face in the year 2000; the possibility of World War III by the year 2000; whether the respondent approves of the job performance of Mr Fraser and Mr Hayden; whether the respondent has an FM radio; and, for women, whether she is responsible for all or most of the household shopping, whether she is employed, and approximately how much money is spent weekly on food and...

Topics include: retail trading on Saturday afternoons; whether private health insurance funds provide value for money; whether the respondent is covered by a private health insurance fund; who is the most effective State Premier in Australia; whether the respondent approves of the job performance of the State Premier; whether organised crime has increased over the past ten years; whether the respondent believes the allegations that some parliamentarians in his State are associated with organised crime;...

Topics include: whether the respondent approves of Australian participation in the peace-keeping force in the Middle East; whether the respondent approves of aluminium smelters being built in locations such as the Hunter Valley of New South Wales or the Portland area of Victoria, and if there should be government assistance for such projects; whether the respondent approves of the proposed dam for hydro electricity to be built in the wilderness of south-west Tasmania; whether low...