Australian Election Study, 2025

The 2025 AES is the fourteenth in a series of surveys beginning in 1987, timed to coincide with Australian Federal elections. The series builds on the 1967, 1969, and 1979 Australian Political Attitudes Surveys. The AES aims to provide a long-term perspective on the political attitudes and behaviours of Australians and investigate the changing social bases of Australian politics as the economy and society modernise and change character. In addition to these long-term goals, the AES examines the specific political issues prevalent in the 2025 Federal election and assesses their importance in determining the election result. The 2025 AES is the sixth in the series to provide the option of completing the survey via hardcopy or online. Address-based sampling (A-BS) continues to be used to recruit members of the Australian public to participate in a sequential mixed-mode survey (push-to-web followed by hard copy completion). The principal sample frame used in the most recent iterations of the survey is the Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF). Since 2016, completers from the previous AES who agreed to take part in future election studies formed the ‘AES panel’ sample and are invited to participate in the subsequent AES. Members of the panel were originally recruited using a combination of G-NAF and Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) electoral roll data. Any new panellists who joined in 2019 or later were all recruited from the G-NAF sample frame. Consistent with the approach used in 2022; to improve the representation of young people in the 2025 AES, online opt-in panels were used to boost online completion of people aged 18 to 34 years. <br><br> <b>User Notice:</b> Please contact ADA to request access to the restricted postcode and demographic variables.