Author: Adam Zammit
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Citizenship
In 2014, 5000 citizens were randomly selected from the electoral roll. 1435 of them returned a completed questionnaire. What questions were asked? Questions included: Respondents were asked about belonging to groups or associations. Only 1% of respondents reported belonging and actively participating in a political party. 90% say they have never belonged to a political…
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National Identity
In 2012, 5000 citizens were randomly selected from the electoral roll. 1636 of them returned a completed questionnaire. What questions were asked? Questions included: Selected findings Respondents were asked how important some things were for being “truly Australian”. The following graph shows the results of some of these items. Being able to speak English was…
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Family and Changing Gender Roles
AuSSA aims to survey a representative sample of adult Australians. The fairest way of doing that is to draw a random sample from the Australian Electoral Roll. This means every Australian citizen has an equal chance of having their views included in the survey, and means that researchers are able to use statistical techniques to…
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Work orientations
In 2015, 5000 citizens were randomly selected from the electoral roll. Each of them were posted an explanatory letter, followed by a questionnaire booklet and reply paid envelope. Up to three reminder mailings were sent for participants who did not return a booklet. 1211 of them returned a completed questionnaire. What questions were asked? Questions…