Australian Election Study, 2007

The Australian Election Study (AES) is designed to collect data for academic research on Australian public opinion and behaviour during federal elections. It is based on a national, post-election, self-completion (mail-in, mail-out) survey consisting mainly of multiple choice questions.

The 2007 Australian Election Study is the eighth in a series of surveys beginning in 1987 that have been timed to coincide with Australian Federal elections. The series also builds on the 1967, 1969 and 1979 Australian Political Attitudes Surveys. The Australian Election Studies aim to provide a long-term perspective on stability and change in the political attitudes and behaviour of the Australian electorate, 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 they examine the political issues prevalent in the election and assess their importance for the election result.

In some cases, questions are repeated in each survey so that trends can be observed over a long period of time. However, in each survey there are always new sets of questions or modules added to gauge public opinion on contemporary social and political issues in Australia.

The 2007 survey replicates many questions from previous studies, but also introduces a variety of new questions including a series of questions of Australia's social welfare system. Other sections cover the respondent's interest in the election campaign and politics, their past and present political affiliation, evaluation of parties and candidates, alignment with parties on various election issues, evaluation of the current economic situation, attitudes to a range of election issues including immigration, terrorism, taxation, unemployment, and interest rates, attitudes to issues relating to the environment and defence, and opinions on various social policy issues including abortion, equal opportunities, sex discrimination, and government assistance to Aborigines. Background variables include level of education, employment status, occupation, type of employer, position at workplace, trade union membership, sex, age, own and parents' country of birth, parents' political preferences, religion, marital status, income, and where applicable, the occupation, trade union membership and political preference of the respondent's spouse.

The breakdown of the 2007 survey sections is as follows:
Section A: The Election Campaign (15 questions)
Section B: Party Preference and Voting (26 questions)
Section C: Politicians and Government (12 questions)
Section D: Election Issues (21 questions)
Section E: Social Policy (12 questions)
Section F: Global Politics (21 questions)
Section G: Education and Work (7 questions)
Section H: Personal Background (22 questions)

The sample for this study was stratified, systematic and random. A sample of electors for all Australia was drawn from the Commonwealth Electoral Roll by the Australian Electoral Commission following the close of rolls for the 2007 election. The Commission supplied name and address information only, to be used only for this study. The sample was selected to be proportional to the population on a state by state basis.

The data is available in a variety of formats including SPSS Portable, Stata v.8, Stata v.7, Nesstar Publisher, NSDstat, DIF, DBase, Textfile, Delimited, SAS and Comma Separated Value file. The data can be downloaded in a zipped folder together with documentation in pdf or xml format.

澳大利亚选举研究（Australian Election Study, AES）旨在为联邦选举期间澳大利亚公众舆论与行为的学术研究采集数据，其基于全国性选举后自填式（邮寄回收）调研，问卷以多项选择题为主。

2007年澳大利亚选举研究是1987年启动的系列调研的第八期，该系列调研均与澳大利亚联邦选举同步开展，其前身可追溯至1967、1969及1979年的澳大利亚政治态度调研。澳大利亚选举研究系列旨在为澳大利亚选民政治态度与行为的稳定性与变迁提供长期视角，并探究伴随经济与社会现代化及特质变革时，澳大利亚政治的社会基础演变。除上述长期目标外，调研还会检视本次选举中的热门政治议题，并评估其对选举结果的影响。

部分问题会在各期调研中重复设置，以便长期追踪趋势变化。但每期调研也会新增若干问题或模块，以评估澳大利亚民众对当下社会与政治议题的看法。

2007年版调研复刻了既往研究中的诸多问题，同时也新增了一系列新问题，其中包括针对澳大利亚社会福利体系的专项问卷。其他调研模块涵盖：受访者对选举竞选与政治的关注程度、过往及当前的政治倾向、对各政党与候选人的评价、在各项选举议题上的政党立场契合度、对当前经济形势的评估、对包括移民、恐怖主义、税收、失业及利率在内的一系列选举议题的态度、对环境与国防相关议题的看法，以及对堕胎、机会均等、性别歧视、政府对原住民援助等多项社会政策议题的观点。背景变量则包含：受教育水平、就业状态、职业类型、雇主类型、职场职位、工会会员身份、性别、年龄、受访者本人及父母的出生国、父母的政治倾向、宗教信仰、婚姻状况、收入水平，以及（如适用的话）受访者配偶的职业、工会会员身份与政治倾向。

2007年版调研的模块划分如下：
A模块：选举竞选（共15题）
B模块：政党偏好与投票行为（共26题）
C模块：政治家与政府（共12题）
D模块：选举议题（共21题）
E模块：社会政策（共12题）
F模块：全球政治（共21题）
G模块：教育与工作（共7题）
H模块：个人背景（共22题）

本次调研的样本采用分层、系统随机抽样方法。澳大利亚选举委员会在2007年选举选民登记截止后，从联邦选民登记册中抽取了覆盖全澳的选民样本。委员会仅提供姓名与地址信息，且仅可用于本项研究。样本抽取按照各州人口比例进行分层分配。

本数据集提供多种格式，包括SPSS Portable、Stata v.8、Stata v.7、Nesstar Publisher、NSDstat、DIF、DBase、文本文件、分隔符文件、SAS及逗号分隔值（CSV）文件。用户可下载压缩包，其中包含数据集与PDF或XML格式的文档资料。