4159.0.55.002 - General Social Survey: User Guide, Australia, 2010

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INFORMATION COLLECTED

The 2010 GSS collected information about:

demographic characteristics
health and disability
housing and mobility
education
employment
income
financial stress, resilience and exclusion
assets and liabilities
information technology
transport
family and community involvement
experience of homelessness
crime and feelings of safety
attendance at culture and leisure venues
sports attendance and participation
social networks and social participation
voluntary work
visa category

All households were asked questions relating to the topics listed above. Most information was collected from the selected person aged 18 years or over. Some information relating to the household, e.g. financial and housing items, may have been collected from a household spokesperson if the selected person nominated a more appropriate person to report on behalf of other members of the household.

Further information about the content of the survey can be obtained by referring to the list of survey data items available on the ABS web site www.abs.gov.au. Many data items available from the survey were derived from responses to a number of survey questions. The questionnaire and the associated prompt cards used to collect the data are also available on the ABS web site www.abs.gov.au. The definitions and concepts used in the survey are detailed below.