The Corruption Perceptions Survey 2025 is a comprehensive survey about current attitudes and responses to corruption.
The survey will ask Queensland state government employees, local government employees, members of the Queensland Police Service and a representative cross-section of the Queensland community for their views on, and experiences of, corruption and corruption prevention.
The results of this survey will give the CCC valuable insights into the current state of corruption and integrity in Queensland, and will assist the CCC in the development of prevention and communication initiatives to improve resistance to corruption.
The responses will also give us insights into how people view the CCC’s performance and value, and set a baseline against which to measure changes in sentiment over time.
The CCC has a long history of conducting surveys of the community and public sector employees. Results of the CCC’s most recent surveys are:
- Perceptions of corruption and integrity in Queensland State Government departments (October 2021)
- Perceptions of corruption and integrity in local government (November 2020)
- Corruption in Queensland: Perceptions and prevention (December 2018).
It is time to capture updated information from the community and the current public sector. Conducting surveys of this kind also supports the CCC’s strategic goals of transparency, accountability and continuous improvement.
In this survey research, it is important to the CCC that the results we obtain represent the Queensland community.
To achieve this, the CCC has partnered with EY Sweeney, an independent research consultancy, to administer the survey to a panel of participants who are asked to complete the survey by invitation. While participants are randomly selected, the panel is designed to meet quotas for age, gender, rural and regional locations, and to ensure representation from vulnerable and minority groups. This approach is usual for surveys of this kind.
If you have not been invited to participate, but have a strong interest in participating, please email [email protected].
The CCC’s jurisdiction is large and diverse. It includes state government departments, public sector agencies and statutory bodies, the Queensland Police Service (QPS), local governments, state government-owned corporations, health and hospital services, universities, prisons, courts, tribunals and elected officials.
The questions in the Corruption Perceptions Survey 2025 are designed to be most relevant to employees of Queensland state government departments (including hospital and health services, and the Queensland Police Service), and local government employees.
This group of agencies was selected to refresh the data previously collected from similar surveys conducted in 2021 and 2020. Specifically:
- Perceptions of corruption and integrity in Queensland State Government departments (October 2021)
- Perceptions of corruption and integrity in local government (November 2020)
If your agency is not being surveyed this time, and you would like to request that the CCC does survey your employees, please reach out to [email protected].
No. If you have made a complaint to the CCC, this is not related to being asked to complete this survey.
If you are a public sector employee of an agency being surveyed, and have not heard about the survey from a colleague within your agency, please contact [email protected].
For anyone else, please see questions 4 and 5.
Asking demographic questions helps the CCC in two ways:
- It helps the CCC to know whether the survey results represent the diversity that exists in Queensland.
- It allows the CCC to analyse results by those variables, in case there are important differences in perceptions or experiences. If there are important differences, that might be useful in developing corruption prevention messages.
If you are uncomfortable answering demographic questions, most have a ‘prefer not to say’ option.
Yes. The CCC expects to publish the results on its website in mid-2025. To protect the privacy of participants, results from this anonymous survey will only be presented in summary form.
