This article tells the story of two pioneering social surveys designed to extend international developments in quantitative social research into the Antipodes: the 1937–38 survey of living standards in rural New Zealand and the University of Melbourne's 1941–43 urban survey of 7,609 households. Archival material associated with these surveys illuminates the influence of governments on the topics, methods and publication of survey results and the tensions their involvement caused for academic researchers. Caught between the strategic interests of funders and the higher ideals of social science, social researchers struggled to deliver significant findings about local populations.

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调查与国家：1930 年代至 40 年代新西兰和澳大利亚的政府和早期社会研究

本文讲述了两项旨在将定量社会研究的国际发展扩展到 Antipodes 的开创性社会调查的故事：1937-38 年新西兰农村生活水平调查和墨尔本大学 1941-43 年对 7,609 户家庭的城市调查。与这些调查相关的档案材料阐明了政府对调查结果的主题、方法和出版的影响以及他们的参与对学术研究人员造成的紧张局势。夹在资助者的战略利益和社会科学的更高理想之间，社会研究人员努力提供有关当地人口的重要发现。