Health Beliefs Dataset

The first stage of sampling involved inviting panel participants of the Australian Health and Social Science (AHSS) project (run by CQUniversity Australia), to complete an online survey. The AHSS national panel is recruited annually via dedicated computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) and random number land- line and mobile calling, with participants also invited via annual institutional omnibus CATI surveys recruited via the same method. At the time of the survey launch, the panel comprised 3864 mem- bers. Each participant was sent a personalised e-mail that contained instructions on how to complete, with a link and password to the SSI hosting software. A total of 1744 complete responses were obtained from the AHSS panel. This dataset was supplemented by utilising SSI’s commercial recruitment services—with instruc- tions to provide 1000 general-population Australian participants, with an approximate balance with respect to gender and major age categories. Members of the SSI panel are provided with cash and in-kind incentives to complete online surveys. A further 953 com- plete responses were obtained by this method, yielding a dataset for analysis of 2697 cases (1306 male). The mean participant age was 58 (min = 18, max = 89, SD = 14.8). Further details on methodology are contained in 2 published journal articles.