Appendix E: Survey questions This appendix includes the survey questions used in this report. Area of residence The Accessibility/Remoteness of Australia, 2003 version (ARIA+) was developed by the National Key Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GISCA) to measure the remoteness of a location based on road distances to service centres (). ARIA+ scores range from 0 to 15, from which 5 categories are defined (Table 11-1). Table 111 Remoteness Areas for Australia and corresponding ARIA+ scores Category ARIA+ score city 0 0.20 – Inner regional Australia >0.20 2.40 – Outer regional Australia >2.40 5.95 – Remote Australia >5.92 10.53 – Very remote Australia (other) >10.53 In ALSWH, participant addresses are coded to ARIA+; the Study’s implementation of the earlier version of ARIA+, known as ARIA, is reported in the 2000 ALSWH Technical Report (). Where only 4 ARIA+ categories are used, Remote refers to Remote Australia and Very remote Australia. Area of residence was estimated from one question in the Census: does the person usually live?” “Where The of Usual Residence is defined by the Census as place where a person lived or intended “the to live for a total of six months or more in 2011” (). The respondent provides their full address, indicates for no usual address, or country”. “none” “Other Highest educational attainment Highest educational attainment was determined from the following questions in ALSWH. is the highest qualification you have completed?” “What This question was asked in Survey 1 for the 1921-26 cohort, Surveys 1 and 6 of the 1946-51 cohort, and all surveys of the 1973-78 cohort. Table 11-2 shows the response options and groupings for analyses for this question.
Appendix E: Survey questions This appendix includes the survey questions used in this report. Area of residence The Accessibility/Remoteness of Australia, 2003 version (ARIA+) was developed by the National Key Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GISCA) to measure the remoteness of a location based on road distances to service centres (). ARIA+ scores range from 0 to 15, from which 5 categories are defined (Table 11-1). Table 111 Remoteness Areas for Australia and corresponding ARIA+ scores Category ARIA+ score city 0 – 0.20 Inner regional Australia >0.20 – 2.40 Outer regional Australia >2.40 – 5.95 Remote Australia >5.92 – 10.53 Very remote Australia (other) >10.53 In ALSWH, participant addresses are coded to ARIA+; the Study’s implementation of the earlier version of ARIA+, known as ARIA, is reported in the 2000 ALSWH Technical Report (). Where only 4 ARIA+ categories are used, Remote refers to Remote Australia and Very remote Australia. Area of residence was estimated from one question in the Census: “Where does the person usually live?” The of Usual Residence is defined by the Census as “the place where a person lived or intended to live for a total of six months or more in 2011” (). The respondent provides their full address, indicates “none” for no usual address, or “Other country”. Highest educational attainment Highest educational attainment was determined from the following questions in ALSWH. “What is the highest qualification you have completed?” This question was asked in Survey 1 for the 1921-26 cohort, Surveys 1 and 6 of the 1946-51 cohort, and all surveys of the 1973-78 cohort. Table 11-2 shows the response options and groupings for analyses for this question.
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