Primary contact
Level 2, Beryl Rawson Building, Australian National University, Acton
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601
Identity area
Identifier
daa/13
Authorized form of name
Australian Data Archive, Canberra
Parallel form(s) of name
Other form(s) of name
- Social Science Data Archives (SSDA),1981-2003
- Australian Social Science Data Archive (ASSDA), 2003-2011
- Australian Data Archive (ADA), Australian National University, 2011- present
Type
- University
Contact area
User Services Officer
Type
Address
Street address
Level 2, Beryl Rawson Building, Australian National University, Acton
Locality
Canberra
Region
Australian Capital Territory
Country name
Postal code
2601
Telephone
02 6125 4400
Fax
02 6125 0627
ada@anu.edu.au
Note
Description area
History
The Australian Data Archive (ADA) is managed by the Australian National University (ANU). ADA was established at the ANU in 1981 with a brief to provide a national service for the collection and preservation of computer readable data relating to social, political and economic affairs and to make these data available for further analysis. A team of professional data archivists, advised by a panel of leading social scientists, provides both stewardship and outreach services to the Australian community.
Geographical and cultural context
Mandates/Sources of authority
Administrative structure
Records management and collecting policies
The Australian Data Archive provides a national service for the collection and preservation of digital research data and to make these data available for secondary analysis by academic researchers and other users.
Buildings
Holdings
- Irving Saulwick and Associates: Age polls, 1972-1997.
- Saulwick Polls, 1987-1991.
- Roy Morgan Research Centre: Australian Gallup polls, 1943-1974.
- McNair Anderson and Associates: Australian Gallup polls, 1975-1987.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics: Census of population and housing, 1966- present.
- Australian National University: National social science survey, 1984-1989; Australian survey of social attitudes, 2003- present; Australian election study, 1987- present.
- Department of Health: National Drug Strategy Household Survey, 1993- present.
- Department of Employment Education and Training: Australian Longitudinal Survey, 1984-1989; Australian Youth Survey, 1989-1994; Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth, 1995- present.
- Department of Social Services: Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, 2001- present.
- Various: ad-hoc Australian surveys, 1960- present; Opinion poll data, 1943- present.
Finding aids, guides and publications
Australian Data Archive Catalogue: http://dataverse.ada.edu.au/
Access area
Opening times
ADA helpdesk operates Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.
Closed weekends, public holidays, Christmas-New Year (24 December-1 January).
General reference assistance available via email at ada@anu.edu.au.
Access conditions and requirements
Various. Some holdings require that researchers must have an existing affiliation with an appropriate research organisation.
Accessibility
Services area
Research services
Reproduction services
Public areas
Control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised 28 March 2018
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Maintenance notes
Access points
Access Points
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Thematic area)
- Communication (Thematic area)
- Defence (Thematic area)
- Education (Thematic area)
- Environment (Thematic area)
- Family / Domestic Life (Thematic area)
- Immigration (Thematic area)
- Indigenous (Thematic area)
- Labour (Thematic area)
- Law and Justice (Thematic area)
- Media (Thematic area)
- Medicine and Health (Thematic area)
- Politics and Government (Thematic area)
- Populations (Thematic area)
- Recreation / Leisure / Sports (Thematic area)
- Religion (Thematic area)
- Social Organisations and Activities (Thematic area)
- Transportation (Thematic area)