Brotherhood of St. Laurence Leisure Study Subject Files - Images

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This is an electronic collection of digitised subject files compiled by Robert U'Ren regarding the Brotherhood of St. Laurence Survey of Leisure Activities in1958. The items document the initial proposal for an investigation of leisure time activities in the "new" housing estate of Braybrook, the purpose of the research, notes from Steering Committee, progress reports, notes on the research, observations, preliminary analysis, drafts, scoring and reading of the responses. The collection includes two digitised scoring and coding manuals. For the analysis of the adult questionnaires, a sample of forty completed questionnaires were used as a basis for constructing scoring categories for all items. These categories were typed up into a manual, using two independent scorers. The coded answers were subsequently entered on the data cards. The original copies of the items are held by the State Library of Victoria. The digital copies have been created and are managed by the University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre.