Here at .id we've just finished our first population forecast for a remote area, the Shire of Roebourne, WA, and I was fortunate enough to be able to travel there recently to launch the forecast and run a training session. Here are my impressions of a remote, mining boom-town. Read more... 

Special rural and regional pricing

Rural and Regional councils in South Australia are now able to access special discounted pricing for profile.id and atlas.id, developed in conjunction with the LGA (SA).  Country councils in other States can also access attractive pricing for all of .id's information products designed for areas with smaller populations than metropolitan councils  

If you would like to know more, please contact  us on (03) 9417 2205.  We would be happy to provide an obligation-free quote prepared specifically for your area.   

Focus on Local Government

Rockhampton's population on a steady growth trajectory

.id recently completed population forecasts to 2031 for the Rockhampton Region in Queensland.  Funded by the Rockhampton Regional Council, the forecasts are designed to inform Council, community groups, investors, business, students and the general public about what is driving change in the region and what the future population will look like...and it's growing... 

Read more... 

  Census Countdown  

  Introducing the SA1

As part of the new statistical geography, called the ASGS, the ABS is fundamentally changing the boundaries on which Census data is distributed.  It is replacing the Census Collection District with a new unit, called, rather uninspiringly, the SA1, or Statistical Area Level 1.  How will this affect Census analysis and in particular, time series? Read more... 

inside .id  

New "customer-focused" website on-line   

We've been so busy building demographic websites for our clients over the last few years, that our own website had got a bit neglected.  That's all changed with the launch of our brand new   

.id website - id's demographic resource centre 

The idea is to share our knowledge and resources with our clients and the general public. You will find:

• access to over 500 demographic websites covering most of Australia (and a bit of NZ) 
• a discovery video that shows how knowledge of cities and the way they change can benefit your community (and it's fun)
• ways to keep connected with us through our newsletter, blog and twitter
• client resources including a log-in area, case studies and training information (with more to come) 
• information about all of our products and services
• and you can put faces to the names in our "meet the team" section

A word from our researchers

Interstate migration converges - what does it mean for NSW and Queensland?

From 2007 onwards, NSW's decline in interstate migration loss has been almost equivalent to Queensland's decline in net migration gain. In fact, NSW appears to have been the main driver of migration to Queensland apart from Victoria's large outflows in the early 1990's. Read more... 

Tips and Tricks  

'Dominant-emerging' analysis - a simple technique for turning data into knowledge

At training sessions for profile.id and economy.id, we often get asked how to interpret some of the data presented in these tools.  We suggest a simple but powerful technique called "dominant-emerging" analysis as a really good way to make sense of the data. It is based on asking two questions about any area. Read more...

Final word

Is your City ready for electric cars?   

Earlier this month, Ford (USA) released a list of what it considers to be the 25 "most prepared" cities in the USA for electric vehicles. The criteria they used to develop the list included: