The Active Australia Survey

A guide and manual for implementation, analysis and reporting

Full publication (340K PDF)

• Preliminary material (138K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
• Sections
  1. Introduction (87K PDF)
  2. The survey (99K PDF)
     • The Active Australia Survey
  3. Interviewer training and survey implementation (134K PDF)
     • The National Physical Activity Survey
     • Handy hints for users, researchers, interviewers and analysts
     • Annotated survey questions for interviewers
  4. Analysis and reporting of the survey data (148K PDF)
     • Measures derived from the Active Australia Survey
     • Data structure
     • Number of sessions of each activity
     • Total time spent in each activity
     • Average time spent in each activity
     • Proportion of people doing 'sufficient' activity for health
     • Proportion of people who were sedentary
     • Awareness of physical activity messages
  5. Background to the survey (169K PDF)
     • Basis for data development
     • Development of the data standards for physical activity, 1997-1999
     • Current status of the proposed data standards
• End matter (144K PDF)
  • Appendixes
    • Appendix 1: Example of CATI survey coding
    • Appendix 2: Membership of the Expert Working Group
    • Appendix 3: Parties invited to be part of the national consultation process
  • Bibliography

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