984D97C7-9FD7-396A-991D-FC3112015F39 eng utf8 nonGeographicDataset Telephone Survey Report Office of Economic and Statistical Research, Queensland Treasury Team Leader +617 3234 0755 +617 3224 5320 PO Box 15037 City East, Brisbane Queensland 4002 Australia team_leader@treasury.qld.gov.au pointOfContact 2005-03-04 Vacancy Rate Survey 2005-03-04 creation Office of Economic and Statistical Research, Queensland Treasury +617 3234 0755 +617 3224 5320 PO Box 15037, City East Brisbane Queensland 4002 Australia joe.bloggs@treasury.qld.gov.au custodian The Housing Rental Vacancy Rates Brief summarises data from a quarterly survey of Queensland real estate agencies. The data presented relates to vacancy rates of residential rental detached houses and units, and is broken down by 5 regions: Inner Brisbane, Remainder of Brisbane LGA, Brisbane Surrounds, Gold Coast and Rest of Queensland. Information on each quarter is posted on the website according to the following schedule: March Quarter—first week of April June Quarter—first week of July September Quarter—first week of October December Quarter—first week of January . Surveys have been conducted in 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, and 2006-2007. Surveys provide a means of measuring a population’s characteristics, self-reported and observed behaviour, awareness of programs, attitudes or opinions, and needs. Repeating surveys at regular intervals can assist in the measurement of changes over time. These types of information are invaluable in planning and evaluating Government policies and programs. The objective of this survey of agents was to measure vacancy rates for residential rental accommodation in Queensland, and to determine the balance between demand and supply of rental accommodation throughout Queensland. onGoing quarterly Housing Survey theme Must acknowledge this report if it is used for further analysis. license http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/products/access_pricing/pdfs/sample_open_licence_single_use.pdf eng utf8 society State of Queensland 2002-07-01 2015-12-31 Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Office of Economic And Statistical Research. Queensland Treasury Team Leader +617 3234 0755 +617 3224 5320 PO Box 15037, City East Brisbane Queensland 4002 Australia joe.bloggs@treasury.qld.gov.au distributor This survey information is free. kilobytes 145 http://www.oesr.qld.gov.au/queensland-by-theme/industry/housing-construction/single-publications/vacancy-rates-survey/vacancy-rates-survey.pdf Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Report document opens with Adobe Acrobat Reader in a web browser . collectionSession Telephone Surveys are generally cheaper and quicker than face-to-face surveys, and are being increasingly used. They are well suited for situations where timely results are needed and the length of the interview is not too long. However, non-response may be higher than for face-to-face surveys as it is harder for interviewers to prove their identity, assure confidentiality and establish rapport. Telephone surveys are not suited for situations where the respondents need to refer to records extensively. Also, the questionnaires must be simpler and shorter than for face-to-face surveys and prompt cards cannot be used. COMPUTER ASSISTED TELEPHONE INTERVIEWING (CATI) helps to address some of these limitations. With CATI, interviewers use a computer terminal. The questions appear on the computer screen and the interviewers key in the responses directly into the computer. The interviewer’s screen is programmed to show questions in the planned order. Interviewers cannot inadvertently omit questions or ask them out of sequence. Online edits warn interviewers if they key in invalid values or unusual values. Most CATI systems also allow many aspects of survey operations to be automated, e.g. rescheduling of call-backs, engaged numbers and “No Answers”, and allow automatic dialling and remote supervision of interviewer/ respondent interaction.It is estimated that about 97% of Queensland households have a connected telephone. However about 15% of households have a silent number. If the Electronic White Pages are used to select a sample of households then the sample will not include households with silent numbers. It will also not include households with recent new connections or recent changes to existing numbers. If the likely bias due to such under-coverage is considered to be significant, a method called Random Digit Dialling may be used where the sample is selected from ranges of numbers which include all connected telephone numbers. Research by the Office of the Government Statistician has shown that about 25% of households picked up using the Random Digit Dialling method are not listed in the latest Electronic White Pages. The main disadvantage of using Random Digit Dialling samples is the extra cost involved in screening out disconnected and business numbers. This report summarises data for the whole of Queensland broken down by the five survey regions, Inner Brisbane (agencies in suburbs wholly or mainly within 5km of Brisbane GPO), Remainder of Brisbane LGA, Gold Coast LGA, Brisbane Surrounds (Pine Rivers, Logan, Redcliffe, Redland, Ipswich, and Caboolture LGAs), and Rest of Queensland. Results in this report represent population estimates calculated from the sample. A detailed description of collection techniques and how the population estimates were derived is available. Unless stated otherwise, the population estimate differences discussed in this report are those that were statistically significant. A difference in survey estimates was considered significant if the 95 per cent confidence intervals for the two estimates did not overlap. This is a conservative test designed to ensure that the probability of incorrectly declaring a difference to be significant is kept to about 1%.