Tag: Articles with graphs
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It’s My Party…
AuSSA Insights profiles the latest results from the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes and other Australian and comparative social and political surveys. The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes 2022 includes a core survey that regularly asks Australian voters about a range of social and political topics. There has been considerable recent interest in Australia and…
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Single Parent and Same-Sex Couple Families
AuSSA Insights profiles the latest results from the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes and other Australian and comparative social and political surveys. The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes 2022 included new ISSP questions from the Family and Changing Gender Roles module surveyed cross-nationally. How have our attitudes to single parents changed and what do Australians…
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Gender Roles: Moving on
The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes 2022 included new ISSP questions from the Family and Changing Gender Roles module surveyed cross-nationally. Australians have comprehensively moved on from the traditional norms about the organisation of the household. Less than 10% of respondents now agree that ‘A man’s job is to earn money; a woman’s job is…
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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…