Statistical Clearing House

• Overview
• Quality Framework
• A. General Information
• B. User Requirements, Survey Objectives and Budget *** You are here ***
• B1 Purpose of survey
  
• B2 Objectives
  
• B3 Timetable
• C. Alternative Sources of Data
• D. Data Outputs
• E. Questionnaire Design and Data Collection
• F. Respondent Load
• G. Population / Frame
• H. Sample Design
• I. Estimation and Analysis

B. User Requirements, Survey Objectives, and Budget

B1 Purpose of survey

Why do you need to conduct a survey? (B1)
Note. Refers to the underlying information requirements that the survey is intended to address. For example, what problems the agency is trying to solve? What decisions need to be made? What specific policies or actions are being determined or assessed? Should detail who requires the information. Survey objectives should be included in "B2" below.
Data is required for regulatory development needs and cost benefit studies. Specifically because CASA needs to know about avionics in aircraft related to ADS-B technology (Transponders, GPS etc) in order to calculate the cost of requiring the aircraft fleet to equip with ADS-B avionics and provide data for the ASTRA cost benefit study. The survey data obtained will complement data already held by CASA in the VH aircraft register, and in the registers of the sports aviation associations.

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B2 Objectives

How will the survey outputs meet the needs specified in B1? What are the target RSEs for the survey? (B2)
Note. Should include a brief overview of the main topics the survey will cover. If applicable, provides details of any constraints including: fixed costs, fixed sample size, fixed accuracy (eg target RSEs, Confidence Intervals), etc.

The main topics of the survey cover avionics, navigation and search and rescue equipment in general aviation (small – less than 5,700 kg maximum takeoff weight) aircraft.

The sample size is 5,500 aircraft (out of a total fleet of 15,000).

See H5.
The survey will not apply to hangliders or paragliders because these aircraft are either not required to have, or generally can’t power, the avionics/navigation equipment in question (these are unpowered aircraft).

B3 Timetable

What is the timetable for the survey? (B3)
Note. Should include: testing, the date questionnaires are printed or finalised, the date data collection commences, the date data collection finishes, and when results will be available. SCH approval for the survey is to be obtained before data collection commences.

See project plan attached for details




TASK	TARGET DATE
Approval by Executive Manager	6 October 2004
Finalise Project Plan	7 October 2004
Finalise survey instrument, test instrument, survey registration with ABS	14 October 2004
ABS Survey approval	30 October 2004
Inform SCC Airways Panel and HGFA, ASRA, RAA	As required
Pringint and mail out of instrument	24 November 2004
Reminder Letter	10 December 2004
Survey Close date	24 December 2005
Data Input	7 February 2005
Analyse Data	February 2005
Prepare report/ASTR data/FSA article	March 2005