3414.0 - Guide to Migrant Statistical Sources, 2007 (Edition 1)

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In this Issue How to use Guide to Migrant Statistical Sources Sources by Title Sources by Topic What do you think of the Guide? About this Release	UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES NAME OF COLLECTION The Racism Project OVERVIEW The Racism Project is a project of the University of New South Wales and Macquarie University and was funded by grants from the Australia Research Council. Between October and December 2001, a telephone survey of residents throughout the states of Queensland and New South Wales was conducted to collect attitudinal information on racism. The main focus of this survey was to develop a measure of the attitudes that respondents hold towards cultural diversity, cultural privilege, the extent of racism, and tolerance of specific cultural groups. This survey was replicated across Victoria in 2006, generating a sample of 4016, and will be replicated in further states and territories from 2007 onward. In 2005 the Racism Project conducted another survey focussing on respondents' experiences of racism along with their feelings and reactions to those experiences. The data are intended to assist local communities with the formulation of their own locally-appropriate anti-racism initiatives. SCOPE The 2001 survey of adult household residents throughout the states of Queensland and New South Wales generated a completed sample of 5,056. The sample was area stratified at Statistical Local Areas to enable regional variation to be examined. Sixty-four per cent of the sample were from New South Wales, roughly in proportion to the relative sizes of the two states. Because of the relative sizes of the two state capitals, the sample was dominated by Sydney and Brisbane respondents. The 2006 survey had a sample size of 4,020 adult household residents from across Australia. DATA DETAIL Country of birth (2001 survey only) Language spoken at home Cultural ancestry of parents (2005 survey only) Religion (2005 survey only) Other demographics such as education, age and gender are also collected. The 2001 survey included attitudinal questions that gauge a respondents' tolerance (or discomfort) with specific cultural groups, as well as their opinions on the desirability of cultural diversity and on the extent of racism. Beliefs in racial separatism (differentiation), racial hierarchy (inferiorisation) and racial categories (racialisation) were also gauged, along with piloted questions on respondents' experiences of racism within a limited range of activity spheres. The 2006 survey collected data on the incidence of respondents' experiences with racism including racist talk (i.e. verbal abuse), exclusion, unfair treatment (i.e. denied service or employment) and physical attacks. Other data items relate to the location of occurrence, respondents' reactions to incidents of racism, and their feelings towards the experience and outcomes. CLASSIFICATIONS Australian Standard Classification of Countries (2001 survey only) Australian Standard Classification of Languages Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups (2005 survey only) Australian Standard Classification of Religious Groups (2005 survey only) GEOGRAPHIC DETAIL The 2001 data sets are arranged by Statistical Districts in Queensland and New South Wales and Sub-Statistical Districts within Sydney and Brisbane. AVAILABILITY OF DATA AND PUBLICATIONS Project data tables and findings appear in various formats including articles and conference papers. These are available from the Racism Project page (http://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/school/staff/dunn/racism.html) at the University of New South Wales' website: http://www.unsw.edu.au/. CONTACT DETAILS Kevin Dunn Associate Professor School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of NSW Email: k.dunn@unsw.edu.au Jim Forrest Associate Professor Dept of Human Geography Macquarie University Email: jforrest@els.mq.edu.au Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.