Summary information
Study title
Media Polls: the Use of Opinion Poll Findings in the Australian Press, 1977
Creator
Beed, T. W., University of Sydney, Sample Survey Centre
Study number / PID
1674 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-1674-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The purpose of this study was to analyse the use of public opinion poll findings in the Australian press in the context of information transmittal among pollsters and journalists, and to scrutinize the gatekeeping role of the journalist in the acquisition, assembly and presentation of poll results to the media audience.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
Australia
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Text units (documents/chapters/words)
National
Citations
Public opinion poll citations
Universe
Poll findings cited in the principal national and metropolitan news publications of Australia for the campaign period preceding the national elections held on December 11, 1977
Sampling procedure
No sampling (total universe)
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1982
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
- Beed, T. (1980) The use of public opinion poll findings in the Australian press, [Working paper].Cambridge.