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Building a probability-based online panel: Life in Australia
Author/editor: L Kaczmirek, L, Phillips, B, Pennay, DW, Lavrakas, PJ, and Neiger, D
Year published: 2019
Life in Australia™ was created to provide Australian researchers, policy makers, academics and businesses with access to a scientifically sampled cross-section of Australian resident adults at a lower cost than telephone surveys. Panellists were recruited using dual-frame landline and mobile random...
Introducing the longitudinal MADIP and its role in understanding income dynamics in Australia
Author/editor: N Biddle, R Breunig, F Markham and C Wokker
Year published: 2019
Understanding the determinants, dynamics and distribution of income within a country is an area of ongoing research and policy interest. There is a lot we do know about income dynamics in Australia. However, we have limited information on several key aspects, including detailed information on the...
Measuring natural disasters through self-report: the case of a national child cohort study
Author/editor: Edwards, B, Gray, M & Borja, JB.
Year published: 2019
Children are considered to be disproportionately affected by natural disasters related to climate change. The impacts on the development of children of being exposed to multiple natural disasters are not well understood. This paper reports on the development and validation of a cumulative measure...
Text messages and reminder calls in student and alumni web surveys
Author/editor: Compton, S & Phillips, B.
Year published: 2019
The impact of text messages (SMS) and reminder calls on response to web surveys was experimentally tested using a crossed design on two surveys in the Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching suite of studies for the Australian Government Department of Education: the May 2018 Graduate Outcomes...
A universal global measure of univariate and bivariate data utility for anonymised microdata
Author/editor: Kocar, Sebastian
Year published: 2018
A universal global measure of univariate and bivariate data utility for anonymised microdata This paper presents a new global data utility measure, based on a benchmarking approach. Data utility measures assess the utility of anonymised microdata by measuring changes in distributions and their...
Measuring social attitudes with voter advice application data
Author/editor: Sheppard, Jill
Year published: 2018
This study directly compares survey data on social attitudes collected from an opt-in sample of voter advice application (VAA) users and a randomly recruited, probability-based online panel of respondents. Whereas much research to date has focused on the demographic representativeness of VAA-...
Support for policy trials in Australia: level and predictors
Author/editor: Biddle, N & Gray, M
Year published: 2018
An emerging view from a broad array of fields is that there should be greater use of evaluations of public policies in general, and the use of randomised controlled trials (RCTs), where feasible, in particular to test the effectiveness of new policies for which there is limited or no evidence about...
The Online Panels Benchmarking Study: A Total Survey Error comparison of findings from Probability-based surveys and Non-probability online panel surveys in Australia
Author/editor: Pennay, D.W.; Neiger, D.;Lavrakas, P.J.; Borg, K.
Year published: 2018
The pervasiveness of the internet has led to online research, and in particular online research undertaken via non-probability online panels, to become the dominant mode of sampling and data collection used by the Australian market and social research industry. There are broad based concerns that...
The social determinants of health and subjective wellbeing: a comparison of probability and nonprobability online panels
Author/editor: N Biddle, J Sinibaldi and J Sheppard
Year published: 2018
As response rates to surveys decline all over the world, researchers are increasingly turning to sampling frames that are easier and cheaper to reach, and that have more predictable response rates. These include nonprobability web panels (NWPs) and probability web panels (PWPs). Although generally...
Model of the Australian tax and transfer system: A flexible open-source approach to tax-transfer modelling
Author/editor: Taylor, M.
Year published: 2017
This paper introduces a new model of Australia’s tax and transfer system: Model of the Australian Tax and Transfer System (MATTS). MATTS is a suite of Stata commands that provide researchers with the ability to model individual tax and transfer policies. The MATTS suite can be applied to a range of...
