The five-yearly Census provides critical data and information to support important Australian decisions by governments, community organisations, businesses and individuals. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is reviewing the information collected in the 2021 Census […]
The 2016 Census has been in the news over the past few days, as the first substantive results are released. And those results are, of course, fascinating for us as researchers, whether we seek to […]
People often change their minds. A researcher sees this when they follow one person’s answers to a question over time. It’s one of the reasons why a person’s behaviour is hard to predict. Luckily for […]
In September, Essential Research published the results of a poll that suggested almost half of Australians wanted to see Muslim immigration banned, prompting an outcry. Andrew Bunn reflects on that decision. We were prompted to […]
Bias is a critically important issue but very difficult to measure – nevertheless a challenge worthy of our industry, writes Stephen Holden. One thing that virtually everyone seems to believe about survey research is that […]
What seems to be a perpetual U.S. election campaign trail will come to an end on Tuesday, and America will have a new president. In the far reaches of the southern hemisphere hovers Australia, poised […]
The recent compulsory online census in Australia stirred a considerable amount of controversy, and for seemingly good reason. Ahead of census day concern was raised by many Australian residents at being told they must share […]
Researchers need to take a look at practices that hinder participation by people with disabilities in any kind of research – not just research on ‘disability issues’, writes Fiona Collis. As a mother of a […]
A groundswell of open public data is building that will shape the lives of generations of Australians. Our society is in constant change. Technical innovation, demographic changes and geographic changes are all having a marked […]
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