Summary This paper introduces the Mater Misericordiae Mothers' Hospital‐University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy, a prospective study of 8556 pregnant women interviewed at their first clinic visit, and subsequently interviewed some days after the birth of the baby and again 6 months later. Additional data were derived from the medical record of the pregnancy and delivery. The study was designed to assess the impact of social, psychological and obstetric factors on pregnancy outcome. We present here details of the study design, sampling, response rates and demographic characteristics of the sample.

community satisfaction, housing satisfaction, life satisfaction, neighbourhood satisfaction, path analysis, perception, quality of life, regional satisfaction, survey research,

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in ABSTRACTIn 2001/02 a number of case study communities in both metropolitan and regional urban locations in Australia were chosen as test sites to develop measures of 'community strength' on four domains: Natural Capital; Produced Economic Capital; Human Capital; and Social and Institutional Capital. Secondary data sources were used to develop indicators to measure community strength on the first three domains, using official data that is readily accessible, including census information. For the fourth domain-Social and Institutional C apital-primary data collection was undertaken through sample surveys of households. A structured approach was devised, involving developing a survey instrument using scaled items relating to four elements-formal norms; informal norms; formal structures; and informal structures-which embrace the concepts of trust, reciprocity, bonds, bridges, links and networks in the interaction of individuals with their community inherent in the notion social capital. Exploratory principal components analysis was used to identify factors that measure those aspects of social and institutional capital, with confirmatory analysis conducted using the Cronbach's Alpha. This enabled the construction of four primary scales and 15 subscales as a tool for measuring social and institutional capital. Further analysis reveals that two measures-Anomie and perceived quality of life and wellbeing-relate to certain primary scales of social capital.