A First for Australia !

OLDER AUSTRALIANS INTERNET SURVEY PANEL

Council on the Ageing (NSW) has established Australia’s first-ever seniors Internet panel, to undertake online surveys on issues of interest to older people. There are over 700 members from all States of Australia.

If you are over 50 and are online or have access to a computer, you are invited to join the panel, which is free and without any obligation, completely confidential and thoroughly enjoyable. This is a unique opportunity to express your views on a wide range of matters.

COTA (NSW) is assisted in this project by a market research company, Decisions Research. Decisions are well-experienced in online research and maintain specialist panels in a variety of areas.

Joining the panel is quick and simple. You just click on: http://www.decisionsresearch.com.au/consumer/oairp/ and follow the instructions to register. (If you experience any technical difficulties, call (02) 9310 8142). Personal information provided by you when you register is confidential. It cannot be passed to any other person or organisation. Your privacy and anonymity is guaranteed, in accordance with the Privacy Act. Responses to surveys are aggregated anonymously.

When a survey is to be undertaken, we email you and invite you to participate. Participation in the surveys is voluntary. Surveys generally take about 12 minutes to complete. Your responses will help us to formulate policies to take to Government. The results of policy surveys will be published on our website.

We also undertake commercial surveys. These are for government departments and private corporations. Since COTA (NSW) is a charity, we rely on sponsorship and income generation to raise funds for our many programs and services to older people and to subsidise membership fees, as well as to pay for setting up and managing the panel.

We hope you will join the panel – the surveys are interesting and fun and importantly, you will be assisting COTA to represent your interests and to undertake important programs. For more information, email mres@cotansw.com.au or call (02)9286 3860.

Neil Tucker Rodney Sheaves

Executive Director Corporate Services Manager