What Matters to Australians: Our Social, Political and Economic Values
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- Report
- Issue Date:
- 2013-02-26
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Societies are complex entities with competing and conflicting and supporting
and reinforcing characteristics. This study, part of a multiyear project
sponsored by the Australian Research Council (ARC) in conjunction with the
University of Technology, Sydney and Melbourne Business School, seeks to
chart the social, economic and political preferences of our society using a
unique methodology that provides us with a more accurate and robust picture
of how we, as citizens, make fundamental trade-offs about things of material
interest to our society.
The study was conducted in Australia with more than 1,500 participants
chosen to match the profile of the voting age population. Similar studies were
conducted in the UK, USA and Germany. Examined were 16 categories of
general social, economic and political issues that ranged from the local (e.g.,
crime & public safety) to the global (e.g., global security) along with 113 subissues
that also varied from the local (e.g., public transport and children’s
schooling) to the global (e.g., nuclear non-proliferation and third world debt).
This information was linked to information on the population’s religious and
political activities, its general demographics, and donating and volunteering
activities with civil society organisations.
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