The Public Understanding of Law Survey
The PULS is a Victoria-wide survey to understand how people see, understand and engage with the law.
Discover how people understand and engage with the law
The Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) is ground-breaking research to understand legal capability, attitudes, and experience of the law in Victoria.
We have developed a stand-alone website to support the PULS and house PULS related content.
Go to the PULS websiteThe PULS publications
Everyday Problems and Legal Need
This first volume updates the broad picture of access to justice and legal need, explores how justiciable problems are experienced, what people do about them, and how they progress and conclude (if they conclude).
The Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) Annotated Questionnaire
This document sets out the full text and routing of the PULS questionnaire, along with commentary on the theoretical background to questions, rationale for their inclusion, details of technical development, references to relevant past studies, as well as PULS showcards.
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