The Range and Magnitude of Alcohol’s Harm to Others (Harm to Others) study aims to measure and describe the impact of alcohol misuse on people other than the drinker. The study involved a telephone survey of respondents, first conducted in 2008, and a follow-up survey in 2011. Researchers also looked at the role of alcohol in deaths, hospital admissions, child abuse cases and other health and social problems.

The study is being undertaken by a group of researchers from Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, Eastern Health in collaboration with colleagues from other institutions in Australia. The study is led by Dr Anne-Marie Laslett.

The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education funded the work, and the project has ethics approval from the Eastern Health Research and Ethics Committee (nos. E119/0809l; E120/0809; E16/1112).

There is more information about the study available on the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education’s website: http://www.fare.org.au/htosurvey/

The Social Research Centre has been contracted on behalf of the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) to conduct the Stronger Families in Australia Study.

The study will include people who have participated in the study in the past, as well as invite new participants to become a part of the study.

The Stronger Families in Australia study measures the impact of the Communities for Children initiative, which aims to bring about improvements in child, family and community outcomes and to improve the co-ordination and delivery of childhood services and improve the quality of the environment in which families and children live.

For more information, survey participants should click here.

The Social Research Centre has been contracted on behalf of Monash University to conduct the Attitudes to Privacy Survey. 

The purpose of the study is to determine what the Australian community thinks about privacy and the use of information in health research.

Approximately 2,200 telephone interviews will be undertaken across Australian households.

For more information, survey participants should click here.

This study was conducted by The Social Research Centre on behalf of the Cancer Council Victoria. This study is exploring the responses of Australian adult smokers to various anti-smoking advertisements. Smokers’ thoughts about the ads, the type and level of emotion they reported experiencing after watching the ads, and any changes to their behaviour, were measured. This research forms part of a wider study that aims to determine the characteristics, particularly emotional characteristics, of anti-smoking advertisements that are most effective for Australian smokers.

Survey participants click here for more information.

The Social Research Centre is currently conducting a national study on people’s opinions and understanding when it comes to financial matters such as consumer rights, investing and managing money in general.

The survey aims to measure the level of financial literacy among the Australian community.

Survey participants click here for more information.

The Social Research Centre is currently undertaking the 2011 iteration of the Transport Accident Commission's Road Safety Monitor.

The research involves contacting Victorian license holders to survey their attitudes on issues related to road safety.

More information, including the associated prize draw terms and conditions, can be found here.

The Young People with Diabetes Survey was being conducted on behalf of the National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS).

The information from this survey will help develop appropriate means of supporting young adults with diabetes in the transition from paediatric to adult health services.

This survey has now closed.

The Social Research Centre recently conducted an important audit of early intervention services for child who have a permanent hearing loss in Queensland.

The research was conducted for Queensland Health’s Healthy Hearing Program. The Healthy Hearing Program was established in 2004 to ensure all newborn babies in Queensland have access to free hearing screen, usually prior to leaving the maternity hospital.

The research invited parents and guardians of children who have a permanent hearing loss to share their experiences of using early intervention services, with a view to improving these services to children in Queensland.

Parents who have registered with the Healthy Hearing Program were contacted via mail in early July with details on how they could participate in the survey via the telephone or online.

This survey has now closed.

The Social Research Centre has been contracted on behalf of VicHealth to conduct the VicHealth Indicators Survey 2011. 

This survey is a valuable source of information collected about the health, lifestyles and wellbeing of Victorians. Findings from this survey will be used to help guide VicHealth with developing and evaluating health promotion services and programs across different regions of Victoria.

Over 24,000 telephone interviews will be undertaken across Victorian households in the coming months.

The Social Research Centre is conducting an important study exploring attitudes towards smoking and related issues among young people aged 12 to 24 years in New South Wales and Queensland. The study is being conducted on behalf on behalf of the NSW Government and will help in understanding community attitudes to these important public health issues.
As part of this study, 1,000 young people in each state were interviewed in June 2010. We are planning to conduct a follow-up survey with these young people in mid-2011.
If you have been involved in this study and would like to update your contact details, please email us your name and new details on attitudes2smoking@srcentre.com.au

The Child and Family Services Outcome Study (CAFSOS) is an important study with parents and carers of children and young people who receive services from Child Protection, Out of Home Care Placement and/or Family Services.

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Have you been asked to participate in an important public health survey?

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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 Social Research Centre is conducting a major national study of health issues affecting young people today on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. The survey of 600 18 to 24 year old Australians is now underway.

If you received a call from  03 83834900 or 03 83276000 this was the Social Research Centre calling to invite you to participate in a study we are currently conducting on behalf of one of our clients.

The call is for market research purposes and is not a telemarketing or sales call.

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 identity 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 your 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