[UMA-SRE-20130019] AGE POLL REPRINT PUBLICATIONS

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IdentifierUMA-SRE-20130019Extent2 boxesLinear Meterage0.25Scope and ContentA series of publications containing reprints of press articles originally published by The Age newspaper under the 'ASRB-Age Poll' banner and, from mid-1975, the 'Saulwick Age Poll' and 'Saulwick Poll' banners. Two later omnibus-style publications also feature reports published by The Age's sister newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald, under the 'Herald Survey' banner.
Commencing with the first Age Polls in 1971, these publications were produced as retrospective compilations of the newspaper articles and associated graphical representations reporting the findings of political and social opinion polling conducted by Irving Saulwick on behalf of The Age newspaper.
The booklets were printed by David Syme and Co. (publisher of The Age newspaper), and were primarily intended as an education resource for schools. For polls conducted between March 1971 and October 1981, booklets were issued consistently (although at irregular intervals). More than thirty such booklets were issued, under the title "Reprints of the [x] Series of Articles From Age Poll". The date range covered by individual booklets and the number of opinion polls represented therein varied over time, as did the frequency with which Age Polls were conducted (monthly, quarterly, snap polling).
No publications were issued for reprints of articles associated with polls conducted between November 1981 and August 1982. The Age Poll was then discontinued by the newspaper for almost two years; resuming in July 1984, with findings published in the newspaper the following month and a reprints booklet titled 'The Age - Age Poll - Collection 32' released in December the same year. Regular collations of the Age Poll articles were not produced after this date, although two omnibus editions appeared several years later: one containing reprints of articles published in 1989; the other containing reprints of articles published in 1991-1992.
The publishers of the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald newspapers also produced a number of historical and topical collections that gathered together articles inclusive of (but not limited to) reports based on Saulwick poll findings. A range of these publications are also held as part of this series.Collection CategoryBusinessAccess StatusOpen for public accessRequest Access to RecordsRequest records from this SeriesSearch within this Series

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CreatorSaulwick, Irving D.

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Date1971-1991

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Previous System ID2013.0019Descriptive NoteYes listed ONLINEOther Finding Aidshttp://www.saulwick.info/HDMS/Web/SAUS0004.htm

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[UMA-SRE-20130019] AGE POLL REPRINT PUBLICATIONS