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Creator: Prest, Professor Wilfred [1907 - 1985]
1973.0002 University of Melbourne Social Survey records 1940-1950 Access: Open
University of Melbourne Social Survey papers: data collected on forms for a survey of households in metropolitan Melbourne, including size and type of dwelling, rent, employment etc., 1941-1943. Suburbs surveyed were Box Hill, Brighton, Brunswick, Camberwell, Caulfield, Chelsea, Coburg, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Footscray, Hawthorn, Heidelberg, Kew, Malvern, Melbourne, Moorabbin, Northcote, Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
1986.0024 Papers of Wilfred Prest 1929-1985 Access: Part restricted
Early research (York and Coal). Correspondence and reports regarding interviews with representatives of various trade and unions, conducted for a Treasury Advisory Committee to provide information about employment, labour shortages and business activity, July 1940-December 1941. The University of Melbourne Social Survey questionnaires, material relating to methodology and subsequent papers. Unive Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
1986.0036 Papers of Wilfred Prest 1929-1985 Access: Open
Records of this collection cover mostly the later part of Professor Prest's career between 1970 and 1984. It illustrates Prest's change of research interests after his work with the Commonwealth Grant Commission, from industrial economics to problems of fiscal federalism and public finance. This accession record comprises Wilfred Prest's personal papers, newspaper clippings, subject files; inwa Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
2002.0039 Papers of Wilfred Prest 1937-1985 Access: Restricted
Wilfred Prest inward correspondence from brother Alan, from York, Cambridge, London and other parts of the United Kingdom and the world, 1937-84 [gap October 1956-January 1973](several hundred items); Wilfred Prest miscellaneous inward correspondence 1943-82 [including Donald Cochrane and J O N Perkins] (nine items); miscellaneous press cuttings sent by Alan Prest (one envelope); obituary of Alan Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
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