The Social Research Centre
Business Services in Melbourne

The Social Research center provides the Australian social science research community with access to world class survey research services and a full range of survey design, data management, analytical and qualitative skills. Our goal is to be internationally acknowledged as a center for excellence in the provision of social science research services. The center provides meaningful Australian capacity in undertaking research into applied social research and evaluation methods. This invitation only study is the beginning of its kind in Australia and invites people from all walks of life to participate in monthly surveys. Wherever possible, most surveys are completed online. If you do not have internet access or prefer not to do surveys online you can request to do the surveys over the phone with an interviewer. Life in Australia is the only scrutinize in Australia using random sampling to recruit people to a panel to do steady surveys. Back to top Will I have to total every survey? In order to make our surveys as perfect as possible, we inquire all Life in Australia members to total each survey. Maximum surveys will be available for completion for a couple of weeks, so we hope that you will be qualified to total each one, even if you can’t do it when we beginning invite you. It’s urgent to respond to all surveys so that the survey results reflect the views of the Australian population and policy decisions are made using flawless information. Australian and international studies reveal that estimates generated from well executed probability based surveys are more flawless than surveys administered using non probability methods. The methods old to recruit, conduct and maintain the panel as healthy as techniques worn in data processing and the production of survey estimates will be publicly available and begin to scrutiny. Most panelists will total surveys online, making surveys conducted through the Life in Australia panel much more affordable than other probability based surveys. Advice regarding parallel studies, sample blending and calibration in order to evaluate ardor improve the results being obtained from non probability online panels. The Social Research center collects both personal and sensitive information as portion of its routine social research activities. As segment of our social research we are likely to accumulate your personal information. We may accumulate any of the above information as healthy as any other personal information that is sufficiently pertinent to the topic of the social research. The Social Research center will generally accumulate your personal information directly from you in the course of you participating in our research ardor surveys. However, we may also from time to time accumulate personal information about you from third parties, such as when a client provides us with a list of sample data to use in conducting our social research. If this is the case, we will inform you that we have received your personal information as soon as is practicable and the circumstances of the collection. At this time you will be provided with an opportunity to decline participation and op tout of any research process. The Social Research center will demolish or deidentify your personal information as soon as reasonably practicable once it is no longer needed to entire the social research project for which it was collected. Report released which shows smoking prevalence rates using a dual frame survey design.