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ACSPRI Newsletter 26 September 1992 ACSPRI newsletter v Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research lncorpcrated Number 26, September 1992 ISSN 0158-6882 incorporating 33DA news Social Science Data Archives, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University ACSPRI newsletter ACSPRI Membership News ................................................... ................................... .. 1 1993 ACSPRI Summer Program at the ANU ................................................... ............ ..1 Third National Social Research Conference Reort ................................................... ..2 I irical Research Methods ................................................. ..5 1991 Census Household Samle File - Exressions of Interest ...................................... ..6 Australian Association for Social Research ................................................... ............ ..7 Remember ACCESS? ................................................... ............................................. ..8 Reports from Summer Schools and Conferences ................................................... ...... .. 11 Conferences ................................................... ................................................... ...... .. 16 38DA news A e Polls Return to the SSDA ................................................... .............................. .. 18 The Norwegian Example ................................................... ..................................... .. 21 Social Researchers: Analysis of Australian Youth Survey Data ............................... .. 23 SSDA Data Holdings - Extension of Electronic Access .............................................. .. 23 Tasman Correspondent - News from NZSRDA ................................................... ...... 24 HealthWiz ................................................... ................................................... ..... .. 24 News from the ABS ................................................... ............................................. .. 25 Recent Additions to SSDA Holdings ................................................... .................... .. 25 ICPSR Additions to Holdings ................................................... .............................. .. 29 This newsletter is produced at the Social Science Data Archives, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra ACT 2601. (Phone (06) 249 4400: Fax (06) 257 1893) Articles, letters, research notes, conference information and other contributions are encouraged. Write to the editors at the address listed above, or send using e-mail to ssda®coombs.anu.edu.au to this issue's outside contributors - Readers are reminded that regardless of telephone interviewing; quantitative in Education). Methodological Thanks advances in Wolfgang Grichting, Robert Lake, Brian whether the cost of a universitys annual analysis of crime and criminal justice; data collection (e.g. computer-assisted Phillips, Mike Lee, John Clarke, Malgosra institutional subscription is paid by the fuzzy set analysis for social science; telephone interviewing and computerised Zlobicki, Dagmar Parer and Henry Barnard. The university, centrally, or by one or more of quantitative historical analysis; and audio-visual data collection); data newsletter was edited b Gina Roach. its programs, departments, units, statistics for the health sciences. If you classification and measurement (e.g. item divisions, faculties, schools and/ or would like more information about, or response and fuzzy set theory); and data campuses, the benefits of ACSPRI think you would be interested in attending, analysis (e.g. multilevel, maximum membership accrue to all students and one or more of these courses (or know likelihood, and multinomial logit) were ACSPRI Activities staff of that university. someone who might) please contact also reported, and two Conference sessions ACSPRI-SP93 by phone or fax (on the were devoted to how best to teach these and numbers listed below), as soon as possible. more basic research methods to tertiary, 1993 ACSPRI Summer Program at postgraduate and in-service students. ACSPRI Membership News the ANU For further details, see the accompanying Also analysed and debated during the Brochure Membership of ACSPRI now stands at (a and write, phone or fax for the Conference were substantive, as well as ACSPRI is pleased to announce that the Course Booklet record high) thirty Australian universities to: ACSPRI - SP93, Social methodological, issues specific to electoral 1993 Summer Program in Social Research Science and research institutions. Since the March Data Archives, Research School of behaviour and the Polls, program and Methods and Research Technology, to be Social Sciences, The Australian National policy evaluation, healthcare delivery, issue of the Newsletter was distributed, cohosted with the Research School of Victoria University of Technology became University, GPO Box 4, Canberra ACT 2601. participatory (action) research, corporate Social Sciences, the Faculty of Arts and the Phone (06) 249 4400; fax (06) 257 1893. and cross-national behaviour, workplace ACSPRIs newest member and Griffith Faculty of Economics and Commerce, will and legal reform, and community studies. University rejoined the Consortium. Mr take place at the Australian National Two informal sessions were devoted to the Vic Roth, Library, St Albans Campus, (tel: University in Canberra between the 3lst of as ACSPRI Third National Social Research discussion of the policy research and 03 366 4852) is acting 12th of February, 1993. January and Conference evaluation process in government Representative for VUT, and Dr Dale Advance details about the Summer (NSRC3) Caird, Division of Health and Behavioural University of Western Sydney, consulting and the future of qualitative Program are available in the Brochure research, respectively. Sciences (tel: 07 875 5176) is the accompanying this Newsletter; complete Hawkesbury Consortiums Griffith Representative. Program details, including application In addition, NSRC3 saw special forms, are provided in the Course Booklet, demonstrations of new versions of However, its a case of two steps forward, available from ACSPRI - SP93 at the Nearly 150 individuals attended thirty-one computer software, such as: FUZzyStat one step back. Avid Newsletter readers address listed at the end of this article. regular, one plenary, and two special will be aware (cf Don DeBats article in the workshop sessions to hear the more than (fuzzy set analysis) by Mike Smithson; March 92 issue, "Creating ACSPRI: The 100 papers delivered during the Third NUDIST (qualitative data analysis) by Lyn As in previous Summer Programs, Richards; and Titan Narrative But Not the Novel, pp 7-11) National Social Research Conference, co- (item response theory) standard, weeklong courses will be offered by Malcolm Rosier, as well as commercial that in 1974 the University of Melbourne, in the areas of: survey and sample design; hosted by ACSPRI and the University of through its Department of Political Western displays of SPSS for Windows by SPSS Inc. introductory statistics; regression analysis; Sydney, at the Hawkesbury and ISYS full text retrieval software by Science, became Australias second factor analysis; data analysis in SPSS and campus between the afternoons of Monday 29 June Odyssey Development. Once again, the university to join ICPSR (the Department SAS; structural equation models LISREL; and Thursday 2 July 1992. Australian Bureau of Statistics, in a special of Political Science in the Institute of log-linear modelling; multilevel analysis; Advanced Studies Like its predecessors, workshop and in a regular session, at the ANU had been analysis of change; qualitative research; and NSRC3 explored developments explained current procedures for, and the first in 1965), and was instrumental in program evaluation. For example, in the in research methodology, organising Australias new multi- and current empirical demonstrated computerised methods of, area of regression analysis, Introduction to findings and their implications, user access and assessment of 1991 university national membership of the Multiple Regression, Intermediate from an array of quantitative and population census data. ICPSR, better known as ACSPRI, in 1976. Regression and Advanced Regression qualitative social research perspectives and courses will be taught; qualitative research across a range of social, economic and policy NSRC3s Monday afternoon plenary session As a foundation member of ACSPRI, the is likely to have both an Introduction to issue areas, including University of Melbourne has had unemployment, poverty, addressed the theme of Integrating Social Qualitative Research and more advanced, health, education, continuous membership since that time. immigration, industrial Research: Process and Substance, and in Analysis of Qualitative Data course. relations, ethnicity, Regrettably, according to a Departmental crime and recreation. three presentations highlighted the diversity and sophistication of, as well as spokesperson, the University is foregoing Also being considered are a number of new membership Commonwealth the methodological and substantive for 19923 due to a shortage or revised courses which are at various and State government of funds in the Department of Political analyses and interpretation research concerns implicit in, contemporary stages of planning, but which all require of policy related Science but has expressed interest
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