The Social Research Centre has been contracted to conduct the 2009 Victorian and Tasmanian Population Health Surveys. 

Approximately 13000 interviews will be undertaken across Victorian and Tasmanian households in the coming months.

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The Victorian Youth Alcohol and Drugs Survey is being conducted on behalf of the Department of Health and the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Prevention Council. Between September and November the Social Research Centre will be conducting 5,000 interviews with Victorians aged 16 to 24 years as part of this research program.  The information from this survey will be used to develop alcohol and drug prevention policies and planning across Victoria.

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The Family Pathways Survey program is part of a wider research program being undertaken by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) to evaluate the family law reform package. The Social Research Centre has been contracted to provide survey research services to AIFS. After a successful pilot test, data collection for the first phase of the project, Wave 2 of a longitudinal survey of 10,000 separated parents, is now underway. Family Pathways - Survey participants click here for more information

The smoking and health survey collects data relating to smoking and health behaviours of Victorian adults, as well as public opinions surrounding various health issues. The Social Research Centre has been conducting this survey on behalf of the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer since 2004. The 2009 survey of 4,500 Victorians, is now underway.

The phone numbers we dial are either:

• Randomly selected from the White Pages telephone directory, or
• Randomly generated by computer, using telephone exchange prefixes that are present in the White Pages, or
• Provided to us by our clients

Yes, absolutely.  Our company is bound by the Market and Social Research Privacy  Principles (www.amsro.com.au), which govern how we collect, use, keep secure and disclose personal information. We also abide by the principles of the Market Research Society of Australia's Code of Professional Behaviour (www.amsrs.com.au).

Possibly, but only in the following circumstances:

• If one of our supervisors calls to confirm the authenticity of the survey by re-asking a couple of questions (that is, the supervisor checks that the interviewer did their job properly)
• Where you explicitly give your permission to be re-contacted for follow-up research or future surveys

No.  We only contact people for research purposes.  The information we collect from you will never be used to contact you for a telemarketing type call, a follow up sales call, nor a call for donations.

The information you provide is used for only for research purposes and helps inform the decision making process of our clients.  The information you provide is merged with that of other survey participants to form an aggregated view of perceptions, opinions and issues.

We collect information such as age and household composition as these are used to “categorise” survey participants for analysis and interpretation of the information collected.

We are not concerned with the identify of the person who provided the data, but are looking for patterns across population groups (defined by age, gender, household type, etc).

Whilst participation is always voluntary, it is important that you participate to ensure representativeness and that the results can be projected to the population.

Sometimes we don't leave a message when we call to protect your privacy.  If the survey contains sensitive questions about personal issues we would prefer to speak with you rather than leave a message anyone in household could hear.

Please call 1800 023 040 and leave your full telephone number (including the area code) to be removed from our call list.  We will do our best to remove your number in 24 hours during the week and in 48 hours on the weekend.

If you would prefer to contact us via email about not participating, please use the following email address:  privacy@srcentre.com.au