Survey of the Military Profession: Stage 2 1988/93

In 1993 resurveying began of those who responded as officer cadets to the Survey of the Military Profession in 1988 (see SSDA study no. 577). Both those who were still serving members of the Australian Defence Force and those who had left were contacted via the respective Service Personnel areas in the Department of Defence. Different surveys were sent depending upon whether the recipient was still a serving member of the Australian Defence Force or not. Some questions are repeated from the original officer cadet survey and some questions are common to both serving and non-serving members to allow for comparisons between groups and over time. The original survey response data file (1988, see study no. 577) and the follow-up response data file (1993) were merged, therefore allowing the carry-over of certain identifying variables, ie service and sex (not included in the follow-up survey) as well as for comparisons over time with variables included in both the cadet survey and the follow-up, i.e. those relating to women in the defence forces. Background variables include respondents' age, sex, marital status, level of education and country of birth.