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Wellbeing of Australians : changing conditions to make life better

Cummins, Robert, Tomyn, Adrian, Gibson, Adele, Woerner, Jacqueline, Lai, Lufanna and Collard, James 2007, Wellbeing of Australians : changing conditions to make life better Deakin University, Geelong, Vic..

Document type: Book
Collection: School of Psychology

Field of Research 170113 Social and Community Psychology
Title Wellbeing of Australians : changing conditions to make life better
Alternative title Wellbeing of Australians : changing conditions to make life better : part A : report
Author(s) Cummins, Robert
Tomyn, Adrian
Gibson, Adele
Woerner, Jacqueline
Lai, Lufanna
Collard, James
Date 2007
Series Australian Unity wellbeing index, survey 18 ; report 18.0
ISBN 9781741561012
1741561019
Publisher Deakin University
Place of Publication Geelong, Vic.
Language eng
Summary The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index monitors the subjective wellbeing of the Australian population. Our first survey was conducted in April 2001 and this report concerns the 18th survey, undertaken in October 2007. Our previous survey had been conducted six months earlier in April 2007. This six month period was relatively uneventful in terms of events likely to change population wellbeing. A new leader of the opposition Labor Party was appointed (Kevin Rudd) who seemed more likely than his predecessors to wrest power from long-serving Prime Minister John Howard (Liberal Party) in an election to be held around the end of 2007.
Each survey involves a telephone interview with a new sample of 2,000 Australians, selected to represent the geographic distribution of the national population. These surveys comprise the Personal Wellbeing Index, which measures people’s satisfaction with their own lives, and the National Wellbeing Index, which measures how satisfied people are with life in Australia. Other items include a standard set of demographic questions and other survey-specific questions. The specific topics for
Survey 18 are work hours, and feeling valued by other people.
Notes Report Pt.A
This is a joint publication of: The School of Psychology, Deakin University; The Australian Centre on Quality of Life, Deakin University; Australian Unity
October 2007
HERDC Research category A6 Research report/technical paper
Research Office code 20071770
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