Australian Election Study, 1990

The Australian Election Study (AES) is designed to collect data for academic research on Australian public opinion and behaviour during federal elections.

The 1990 study is the second in the series initiated in 1987, and builds on the data collected earlier in the 1967 and 1979 Australian Political Attitudes Surveys. The series provides a long-term perspective on stability and change in the political attitudes and behaviour of the Australian electorate, and investigates the changing social bases of Australian politics as the economy and society modernise and change character. Each study is based on a national, post-election, self-completion survey consisting mainly of multiple choice questions.

A range of questions are included in the survey which cover election issues and the respondent's assessment of the most effective party to handle them, as well as questions on specific political issues. A section on social policy includes questions on around 30 contemporary social and moral issues, including abortion, Aboriginal rights, pornography, health care and many others. A section on industrial policy focuses on attitudes towards the control of the economy, to trade unions and big business, and to industrial conflict in general. In addition to the standard questions on vote in the current election, recalled vote in the 1987 federal election, and party identification, the survey contains an extensive section dealing with attitudes to the major parties and to the party leaders. Finally, a range of demographic data are collected for each respondent and their spouse or partner, if applicable.

In some cases, questions are repeated in each survey so that trends can be observed over a long period of time. However, in each survey there are always new sets of questions or modules added to gauge public opinion on contemporary social and political issues in Australia.

Two major themes are covered in the 1990 survey, the economy and the environment. Questions on the economy include evaluations of the country's economy and the individual's own personal household situation; wages and price controls; attitudes to particular economic issues; and the position of the major parties and party leaders on the main economic issues. Questions on the environment include attitudes to the protection of the environment and to environmental issues in general; the role of industry and the government in ensuring environmental protection; rankings of the most urgent environmental issues and the respondent's assessment of their likely future importance; and attitudes toward environmental pressure and interest groups, including current or likely membership.

The breakdown of the 1990 survey sections is as follows:
Section A: The Election Campaign (9 questions)
Section B: Party Preference and Voting (9 questions)
Section C: Political Leaders and Parties (9 questions)
Section D: Election Issues (3 questions)
Section E: The Economy (7 questions)
Section F: Social Policy (10 questions)
Section G: The Environment (10 questions)
Section H: Industrial Relations (6 questions)
Section I: Education and Work (9 questions)
Section J: Personal Background (15 questions)

For the 1990 study, The Australian Electoral Office provided a systematic random sample of electors from its computerised electoral role. The sample of 3277 electors was made by selecting 1 in 2989 from the roll, distributed proportionately across States and Territories and Electoral Divisions, excluding South Australia. A supplementary sample of 330 cases was selected manually from the alphabetical microfiche list of electors in South Australia, again using the sample fraction of 1 in 2989 persons.

The data is available in a variety of formats, including SPSS Portable, Stata v.8, Stata v.7, Nesstar Publisher, NSDstat, DIF, DBase, Textfile, Delimited, SAS and Comma Separated Value file. The data can be downloaded in a zipped folder together with documentation in pdf or xml format.

澳大利亚选举研究（Australian Election Study, AES）旨在为联邦选举期间澳大利亚公众舆论与行为的学术研究采集数据。

1990年版研究是1987年启动的系列研究的第二期，其数据基础涵盖1967年与1979年澳大利亚政治态度调查的早期采集成果。该系列研究为澳大利亚选民的政治态度与行为的稳定性及变迁提供了长期视角，并探讨了随着经济与社会现代化、社会特质演变，澳大利亚政治的社会基础如何发生变化。每项研究均基于全国性选举后自填式问卷调查，问卷主体为多项选择题。

本次问卷包含一系列问题，覆盖选举议题、受访者对应对各议题的最有效政党的评估，以及特定政治议题相关内容。社会政策板块涵盖约30个当代社会与道德议题，包括堕胎、原住民权利、色情内容、医疗保健等诸多议题。产业政策板块聚焦公众对经济管控、工会与大企业，以及总体劳资冲突的态度。除了针对本次选举投票、1987年联邦选举回忆投票以及政党认同的标准问题外，问卷还设有内容丰富的板块，用于调查受访者对主要政党及其党首的态度。最后，研究为每位受访者及其配偶/伴侣（如适用）采集了一系列人口统计数据。

部分问题会在各轮调查中重复设置，以便长期观察趋势变化。但每轮调查也都会新增若干问题或模块，以评估澳大利亚公众对当代社会与政治议题的看法。

1990年版调查涵盖两大核心主题：经济与环境。经济相关问题包括对国家整体经济状况及个人家庭经济处境的评估、工资与价格管控、对特定经济议题的态度，以及主要政党与党首在主要经济议题上的立场。环境相关问题包括对环境保护及总体环境议题的态度、产业界与政府在环境保护中的角色、最紧迫环境议题的排序、受访者对其未来重要性的评估，以及对环境压力团体与利益集团的态度，包括当前或潜在的成员身份倾向。

1990年版调查的板块划分如下：
A板块：选举竞选活动（9道题目）
B板块：政党偏好与投票行为（9道题目）
C板块：政治领袖与政党（9道题目）
D板块：选举议题（3道题目）
E板块：经济状况（7道题目）
F板块：社会政策（10道题目）
G板块：环境议题（10道题目）
H板块：劳资关系（6道题目）
I板块：教育与工作（9道题目）
J板块：个人背景（15道题目）

1990年版研究的样本由澳大利亚选举办公室从其电子化选民名册中抽取系统随机样本。本次正式样本共包含3277名选民，通过从名册中以1/2989的抽样比例抽取，且按州、领地及选举选区进行比例分配，不包含南澳大利亚州。此外，研究从南澳大利亚州选民的字母顺序显微胶片名册中手动抽取了330个补充样本，同样采用1/2989的抽样比例。

本数据集提供多种格式版本，包括SPSS Portable、Stata v.8、Stata v.7、Nesstar Publisher、NSDstat、DIF、DBase、Textfile、Delimited、SAS及Comma Separated Value文件。用户可下载压缩文件夹，其中包含数据及PDF或XML格式的文档材料。