The Australian Study of Health and Relationships was conducted to find out more about the sexual health and behaviour of people living in Australia. 19,307 randomly selected people aged between 16 and 59 have been interviewed. The survey was entirely conducted over the telephone.

Living Safer Sexual Lives was a three year Victorian Health Promotion Foundation funded action research project undertaken at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University.

The young people represented in this project were accessed through an advertising campaign in national magazines, via radio and the internet. A survey was available on a website and from the Centre for the Study of Sexually Transmissible Diseases. Surveys were also inserted in the gay and street press.