Thank you for your interest in the Corruption Perceptions Survey 2025. Please see below for answers to some common questions about the survey.
In this survey research, it was important to the CCC that the results we obtained represented the Queensland community.
To achieve this, the CCC partnered with EY Sweeney, an independent research consultancy, to administer the survey to a panel of participants who were asked to complete the survey by invitation. While participants were randomly selected, the panel was designed to ensure representation across age, gender, rural and regional locations, and from vulnerable and minority groups. This approach is usual for surveys of this kind.
Where someone in the community expressed a strong interest in participating, the CCC welcomed their responses and provided access to the survey.
The survey was available to all Queensland Government Departments, all Queensland Hospital and Health Services, and all Queensland Local Councils. Departments included all state departments, the Public Sector Commission, the Queensland Ambulance Service, the Queensland Fire Department, Queensland Corrective Services and the Queensland Police Service.
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 councils, state government-owned corporations, health and hospital services, universities and grammar schools, prisons, courts, tribunals and elected officials.
The questions in the Corruption Perceptions Survey 2025 were designed to be most relevant to employees of Queensland state government departments (including hospital and health services, and the Queensland Police Service), and local council employees.
This group of agencies was selected to align with data previously collected from similar surveys conducted in 2021 and 2020 and enable more meaningful analysis and comparison over time. Specifically:
In February 2025, the CCC contacted 117 public officials of each of the in-scope public sector agencies for the survey. They were asked to promote the survey within their workplaces.
Public officials across these agencies used a variety of ways to promote the survey, including newsletter articles, pinned news posts and posters on intranets, all-staff broadcasts, physical flyers/posters and screensavers.
The survey allowed participants to use their own understanding of what corruption is. While no definition was provided for employees, a brief, high-level definition was provided to community members. This definition was:
Corruption in Queensland involves public officials doing the wrong thing – misusing their power or position to either do something illegal or unethical.
No, this survey did not relate to any CCC investigations, nor was it designed to identify individual instances of corrupt conduct. While some respondents may have reported to the CCC in the past, no respondents were recruited based on any previous contact with the CCC.
The project was approved by the CCC and ethical advice was provided by the CCC’s Human Research Ethics Advisory Panel.
EY Sweeney is an independent research agency who was contracted by the CCC to administer this survey. They were responsible for collecting the data, analysing it, and providing the results to the CCC.
