Accession[2013.0008] Papers of Irving David SaulwickIdentifierUMA-ITE-2013000800048Scope and ContentSAUL00048 Manila folder containing loose working notes, reference material, and correspondence; relating to administration of the Age Poll and to opinion polling more generally. Most contents date from the mid-1980s, but other material is also present.
Contents include: ideas, notes and drafts for Age Poll topics and questions; blank poll questionnaire forms, some with annotations or handwritten notes attached; list of questions on Industrial Relations asked in Saulwick Polls for period 1976 - 1982; enquiries regarding polling methodology, purchase or use of poll data, and permission to reprint Age Poll data; abstracts for market research publications; revised Guidelines for Opinion Polls, as resolved by the Australian Press Council 29 May 1986, plus a second version including amendments of 26 March 1987; copy of a letter received by Creighton Burns (Editor of The Age) from the Hon. Justice Micael Kirby (Chairman, Australian Law Reform Commission), requesting inclusion in the Age Poll of a series of questions on marital property.
Includes correspondence to and from Irving Saulwick and parties including: Ron Castan, Victorian Council for Civil Liberties (attitudes to Australia card proposal); Sol Lebovic, Managing Director, Newspoll (voluntary code of conduct for public opinion polls); Dr. Roger Jones, Head, Social Science Data Archives (transfer of Age Poll data); and Prof. Alan Davies, University of Melbourne (arrangements to re-establish relationship between Age Poll and the University of Melbourne Political Science Department). Additional correspondence from Snap Surveys, AGB McNair, McNair Anderson and SRG [Survey Research Group] in relation to arrangements for survey fieldwork and data processing to be undertaken by these companies.
Also includes various newspaper clippings, and the following items: Andrew Gimson 'The Spectator Poll: What Think They of Christ?' The Spectator, 13 December 1986
- William L. Miller 'The British voter and the telephone at the 1983 election' Journal of the Market Research Society, Vol 29, No 1, January 1987; Bruce Headey, Elsie Holmstrom and Alex Wearing 'Goverment Taxes and Expenditures: What does the Public Want', March 1985 (unpublished CEP [Commonwealth Employment Project] project report); Murray Goot 'Constructing Public Opinion: the Polls and the Asian Immigration Debate' paper presented at the Australasian Political Studies Conference, August 1984; Murray Goot 'Capital gains, Electoral Losses?', dated July 1984 [no publication details].Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2013.0008 Unit 0007
Saulwick, Irving D., 1984 - 85 Poll (August 1973-2 September 1987), [UMA-ITE-2013000800048]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 01/05/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/327257
