Australian Gallup Polls, Survey 68, November 12, 1949

The Australian Gallup Polls, commissioned by Australian Public Opinion Polls (The Gallup Method) cover the periods of 1943-1968 and 1975-1987. Australian Gallup Polls comprise two subseries: the earlier series conducted by Roy Morgan (1943-1968); and the later series by McNair Anderson Associates (1975-1983). Opinion polls in the earlier series were conducted on a regular basis by Roy Morgan and the current holding of this archive date from July 1943 to August 1968, a total of 89 polls. The data are also available from the Roper Centre, University of Connecticut, U.S.A, where they were originally deposited. Topics covered in this survey are Sunday afternoon football, shopping hours, rates of currency exchange, atomic energy, the atom bomb, political party preference, election issues, bank nationalisation, petrol rationing, respondent's reflections on schooling, relative influences of religion and politics, and the continuing operation of TAA. Standard variables are vehicle and telephone ownership, occupation, economic classification, vote at last Federal election, age and sex.