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The Population Research Laboratory (PRL) is the central hub of the research infrastructure of the Institute for Health and Social Science Research (IHSSR) at CQUniversity. The PRL conducts high quality social surveys using advanced social research methods and computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) technology which inform its flagship projects; the Australian Health and Social Science Project (online panel study), the annual Queensland Social Survey (state wide CATI survey) and the Central Queensland Social Survey (regional CATI survey undertaken until 2010) . Along with these, the PRL has a diversified portfolio of research projects that it has undertaken for university and non-university based researchers to enable decision making in the public and private sectors, specialising in survey design, testing and evaluation, large scale population based CATI surveys, online surveys, focus groups and combined methodology research.