Other ANU Public Opinion Surveys

The Australian Election Study

The Australian Election Study (AES) is the most sophisticated and exhaustive set of data ever collected in Australia on the dynamics of political behaviour. Since 1987, the AES has mounted a major national public opinion survey at each federal election. The data collected are used for academic research on Australian electoral behaviour and public opinion. The surveys are made freely available to the academic community through the Australian Social Science Data Archive.

The AES is the Australian member of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) project. Established in 1996, the CSES is a coordinated comparative project that enables the systematic analysis of electoral behaviour under globally varying institutional conditions. CSES coordinates the operation of nearly 60 national election studies across the world, thereby ensuring that information about citizens’ behaviour and attitudes gathered at each site is comparable.  Information about the institutional arrangements that characterize each participating country is also collected, again in comparable form.  CSES designs, receives, rationalises, cleans, and merges these data, and then makes them freely and immediately available to the world’s scholarly community.

The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes

The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) is Australia's major academic social survey, which includes modules for the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). The survey team include academics from Australian and overseas universities, and is responsible for fielding the World Values Survey in Australia. The team also publishes the biennial series on contemporary Australian society and policy, Australian Social Attitudes with the University of NSW Press.
The World Values Survey project conducts national surveys in around 90 countries every five years.  articipating countries provide the public and researchers with information about social attitudes across the world that can be used for national research and international comparisons.