Lowy Institute Poll 2015

The Lowy Institute Poll reports the results of the Institute's annual nationally representative telephone opinion survey, conducted in 2015 by market research company I-view, with supplementary polling commissioned by the Lowy Institute and conducted by Newspoll. Supplementary Newspoll collections are not provided in the dataset. For the annual survey, I-view surveyed 1200 Australian adults between 20 February and 8 March 2015. Four supplementary polls were conducted by Newspoll on 13-15 February (1211 adults), 10-12 April (1215 adults), 1-3 May (1213 adults) and 22-24 May (1210 adults), the findings from these are in the reports but not in the data.
A number of the questions in the Poll were first asked in previous Lowy Institute Polls, or have been adapted from questions asked in those years. Repeating questions in successive years allows the comparison of public opinion on a single issue over time, building trend data on important international policy issues.
Some of the questions this year are identical to questions asked previously by other survey organisations, which allows for the comparison of public opinion internationally. Several of the questions in this year’s Poll were modeled on those asked by other polling organisations, including the Council on Foreign Relations, Transatlantic Trends and Pew Research Center. Other questions this year drew from work of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and polling on energy sources by Bisconti Research for the Nuclear Energy Institute.The order of questions in the questionnaires was different from the order presented in the report supplied in documentation.