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Description	The 1999 Australian Constitutional Referendum Study was conducted to investigate the Australian electorate's attitudes towards the significant political issues surrounding the 1999 constitutional referendum. As part of the Australian Election Study series, the 1999 ACRS provides a perspective on the political attitudes and behaviour of the Australian public which, in turn, can be compared to those attitudes recorded at past and future electoral events. The 1999 ACRS also functions more specifically as a means of investigating the patterns of public opinion concerning the republic and its specific features. Variables include voting preference; degree of exposure to media reporting of the Referendum; level of interest in the Referendum debate; past and present political affiliation; party voted for in the last (1998) election; evaluation of parties, politicians and key participants in the Referendum debate; views on national identity, preferred head of state and the importance of the Queen and the Royal Family to Australia; knowledge of the current role of the Queen and the Governor General and future role the President if Australia became a republic; perceived changes to powers held by the Prime Minister and the President, political stability in Australia, Australia's standing in the world, and ease of future constitutional reform; attitudes to a range of issues including unions, big business, income distribution, law enforcement, equal opportunities for migrants/women, Aboriginal land rights; and views on the preferred function of society, government and the law. Background variables include level of education, employment status, occupation, type of employer, position at workplace, trade union membership, sex, age, own and parents country of birth, parents' political preferences, religion, marital status, income, and where applicable, the occupation, trade union membership and political preference of the respondent's spouse.
Subject	Social Sciences
Keyword	Attitudes, Culture, Education, Elections, Employment, Immigration, Income, International relations, Political parties, Politicians, Political ideologies, Politics, Social policy, Trade unions
Notes	Copyright: Copyright (c)2003, The Australian National University. This publication may be copied in whole or in part by any copying or duplicating process, provided it is not sold except to recover duplicating costs.
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Persistent Identifier	doi:10.26193/CMECLJ
Publication Date	2019-01-25
Title	Australian Constitutional Referendum Survey, 1999: Public release version
Other Identifier	Australian Data Archive: 01018-pub
Author	Gow, David (University of Queensland) Bean, Clive (Queensland University of Technology) - ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9413-272X McAllister, Ian (Australian National University) - ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8448-6738
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Description	The 1999 Australian Constitutional Referendum Study was conducted to investigate the Australian electorate's attitudes towards the significant political issues surrounding the 1999 constitutional referendum. As part of the Australian Election Study series, the 1999 ACRS provides a perspective on the political attitudes and behaviour of the Australian public which, in turn, can be compared to those attitudes recorded at past and future electoral events. The 1999 ACRS also functions more specifically as a means of investigating the patterns of public opinion concerning the republic and its specific features. Variables include voting preference; degree of exposure to media reporting of the Referendum; level of interest in the Referendum debate; past and present political affiliation; party voted for in the last (1998) election; evaluation of parties, politicians and key participants in the Referendum debate; views on national identity, preferred head of state and the importance of the Queen and the Royal Family to Australia; knowledge of the current role of the Queen and the Governor General and future role the President if Australia became a republic; perceived changes to powers held by the Prime Minister and the President, political stability in Australia, Australia's standing in the world, and ease of future constitutional reform; attitudes to a range of issues including unions, big business, income distribution, law enforcement, equal opportunities for migrants/women, Aboriginal land rights; and views on the preferred function of society, government and the law. Background variables include level of education, employment status, occupation, type of employer, position at workplace, trade union membership, sex, age, own and parents country of birth, parents' political preferences, religion, marital status, income, and where applicable, the occupation, trade union membership and political preference of the respondent's spouse.
Subject	Social Sciences
Keyword	Attitudes Culture Education Elections Employment Immigration Income International relations Political parties Politicians Political ideologies Politics Social policy Trade unions
Topic Classification	Australian studies Politics Political behaviour and attitudes
Notes	Copyright: Copyright (c)2003, The Australian National University. This publication may be copied in whole or in part by any copying or duplicating process, provided it is not sold except to recover duplicating costs.
Language	English
Producer	Australian Data Archive (The Australian National University) (ADA)
Production Location	Australian Data Archive 18 Balmain Crescent Canberra ACT 0200
Contributor	Funder : Australian Research Council Funder : Grant No. 79937265 Data Collector : Australian Data Archive
Distributor	Australian Data Archive (The Australian National University) (ADA) https://ada.edu.au/
Depositor	David Gow [affiliation: Centre for Public Administration, University of Queensland, QLD 4072]
Deposit Date	2000-01-31
Date of Collection	Start Date: 1999-11-05 ; End Date: 2000-03-02
Data Type	Survey data
Software	Nesstar Publisher, Version: 2.00 RC2
Related Material	Questionnaire - ADA.QUESTIONNAIRE.01018-pub.pdf; Codebook - ADA.CODEBOOK.01018-pub.rtf
Related Dataset	ADA Study 1048 - Bean, Clive et al. Australian Election Study, 2001 [computer file]. Canberra: Data Archives, The Australian National University, 2001. (SSDA No. 1048). - au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.01048; ADA Study 1018 - Gow, David John et al. Australian Constitutional Referendum Study, 1999 [computer file]. Canberra: Data Archives, The Australian National University, 2000. (SSDA No. 1018). - au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.01018; ADA Study 1001 - Bean, Clive et al. Australian Election Study, 1998 [computer file]. Canberra: Data Archives, The Australian National University, 1998. (SSDA No. 1001). - au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.01001; ADA Study 944 - Jones, Roger et al. Australian Candidate Study, 1996 [computer file]. Canberra: Data Archives, The Australian National University, 1996. (SSDA No. 944). - au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.00944; ADA Study 943 - Jones, Roger et al. Australian Election Study, 1996 [computer file]. Canberra: Data Archives, The Australian National University, 1996. (SSDA No. 943). - au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.00943; ADA Study 764 - McAllister, Ian et al. Australian Candidate Study, 1993 [computer file]. Canberra: Data Archives, The Australian National University, 1993. (SSDA No. 764). - au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.00764; ADA Study 763 - Jones, Roger et al. Australian Election Study, 1993 [computer file]. Canberra: Data Archives, The Australian National University, 1993. (SSDA No. 763) - au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.00763; ADA Study 571 - Gow, David et al. Australian Candidate Study, 1990 [computer file]. Canberra: Data Archives, The Australian National University, 1990. (SSDA No. 571). - au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.00571; ADA Study 570 - McAllister, Ian et al. Australian Election Study, 1990 [computer file]. Canberra: Data Archives, The Australian National University, 1990. (SSDA No. 570) - au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.00570; ADA Study 479 - McAllister, Ian et al. Australian Candidate Study, 1987 [computer file]. Canberra: Data Archives, The Australian National University, 1987. (SSDA No. 479). - au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.00479; ADA Study 445 - McAllister, Ian and Mughan, Anthony. Australian Election Survey, 1987 [computer file]. Canberra: Data Archives, The Australian National University, 1987. (SSDA No. 445). - au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.00445; ADA Study 9 - Aitkin, Don. Macquarie University Australian Political Attitudes Survey, 1979 [computer file]. Canberra: Data Archives, The Australian National University, 1982. (SSDA No. 9). - au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.00009; ICPSR Study 7393 - Aitkin, Donald et al. Australian National Political Attitudes Wave II, 1969 [computer file]. Michigan: Inter-University Consortium for Political Research, 1976. (ICPSR No. 7393).; ICPSR Study 7282 - Aitkin, Donald and Kahan, Michael. Australian National Political Attitudes Wave I, 1967 [computer file]. Michigan: Inter-University Consortium for Political Research, 1975. (ICPSR No. 7282).

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Universe	Persons on the Australian electoral roll at the close of rolls, October, 1999.
Time Method	One-time cross-sectional study - partial replication
Sampling Procedure	disproportionate stratified systematic random sample of Australian electors. The sample was stratified (disproportionately) by State/Territory in order to provide at least 500 respondents from each of the six Australian states so as to facilitate separate analysis of each state. Sample units were drawn as follows: 1000 from each of the six states (NSW, Vic, Qld, WA, SA and Tasmania), 100 from the Australian Capital Territory, and 50 from the Northern Territory. The sample of Australian electors was drawn from the Commonwealth Electoral Roll by the Australian Electoral Commission following the close of rolls for the 1999 referendum on 8 October 1999. All Australian citizens aged 18 years and over are required by law to enrol ("register") for federal elections and referendums. British subjects who were on the roll immediately before 26 January 1984 are also qualified to enrol and vote. Citizens who are aged 17 may provisionally enrol and are eligible to vote if their 18th birthday falls on or before polling date. The Australian Electoral Commission supplied electors' names and address information only, to be used for this study alone.
Collection Mode	Self-completion - mail out, mail back
Actions to Minimize Losses	A thankyou/reminder postcard was sent to all respondents and non-respondents 11 days after the original mail-out (16 November 1999). A second reminder letter and questionnaire were sent to remaining non-respondents three weeks after the original mail-out (30 November 1999). A final reminder letter and third questionnaire were sent five weeks after the original mail-out (17 December 1999).
Weighting	Weighting criterion to adjust the distribution of responding electors by State/Territory to an equivalent random sample of the national electorate. Weighting procedure There are two considerations in deriving the sample weights: (1) Representativeness: ensuring that the resulting (weighted) sample accurately reflects the proportion of electors enrolled in each State/ Territory. The present data constitute a disproportionate stratified sample that "under-samples" the more populous states of NSW and Victoria, and "over-samples" the smaller states and territories. Thus weights are necessary to adjust the sample by State/Territory to reflect the distribution of enrolments in the population (Australian electors) at the close of the electoral rolls for the referendum. (2) Precision: ensuring that, after adjusting for these proportions, the resulting sample size is appropriate. Statistical software packages calculate statistics and significance values under the assumption that the data constitute a simple random (probability) sample selected from a large population. Consequently, most statistical software packages do not take the effects of complex sample designs into account. Providing the variances of an item are similar in each State/Territory, the effective sample size indicates the sample size of a simple random sample with (approximately) equivalent precision to the sample design used in the present study. When the sample is adjusted to the effective sample size, statistics from software packages can be used. The effective sample size, the simple random sample size that would give an estimate of equivalent precision to the sample design used in this study, is calculated as: 1/n = ?[(Nh/N)(Nh/N)(1/nh)] where the summation is across States and Territories and Nh = number of enrolments in the hth State/Territory N = number of enrolments in Australia nh = number of responding electors from the State/Territory. There are 28 additional cases in the file that were returned with the identification number removed and, therefore, the respondents' State/ Territory is unknown. The weight for these cases is 1. Applying the above formula reduces the sample size from 3431 to an effective sample size of 2311 cases. The weights, which are included as a variable in the data file, adjust the sample for both representativeness and sample precision. Details of the weights and other relevant information are given in the following table. Enrolment Sample In Response Weighted State (000's) (%) size Scope Response rate Weight Response NSW 4133 33.4 1000 948 507 53.5 1.5057 763.4 VIC 3161 25.6 1000 941 557 59.2 1.0482 583.9 QLD 2222 18.0 1000 926 517 55.8 0.7937 410.4 WA 1172 9.5 1000 944 548 58.1 0.3949 216.4 SA 1028 8.3 1000 945 607 64.2 0.3128 189.9 TAS 326 2.6 1000 949 588 62.0 0.1023 60.2 ACT 212 1.7 100 95 57 60.0 0.6869 39.2 NT 108 0.8 50 45 22 48.9 0.9061 19.9 UNKNOWN --- --- --- 28 28 --- 1.0000 28.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 12362 100.0 6150 5821 3431 58.9 2311.2 Source: Enrolment data are extracted from the Australian Electoral Commission, Electoral Newsfile, No. 85, 14th October 1999. There are very minor discrepancies between the above enrolments numbers and those subsequently reported in the Australian Electoral Commission's official website (http://www.aec.gov.au). "Out of Scope" is defined as being all survey instruments "returned to sender", (except "RTS - Refused"), with notification that the addressee was deceased, incapable of completing the survey instrument, away, overseas, or in gaol; or if the study directors were advised that the survey instrument was filled out by someone other than the addressee.

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