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.id community monthly newsletter
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December 2012
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Greetings!
Christmas is a time for celebration, spending time with friends and family and also taking a well-earned rest after a hard year.
However, while we are enjoying ourselves we should also give some thought to some who are less fortunate than ourselves, and those who have come from other countries where they have not had the same opportunities and freedoms.
When I take a minute for some spiritual reflections on the year past, the thing that jumps to my mind is the plight of asylum seekers.
Mix a bit of demographic evidence with a handful of Christmas spirit and it is clear that we have had enough of the myths and politicisation of the plight of these people. I'm assuming that the readers of this newsletter are interested in evidence-based decision making and are engaged in some form of community building.
We should all therefore take responsibility for communicating the facts about asylum seekers.
Asylum seekers arriving by boat form less than 1% of our net migrant intake! And, in addition, a 2011 report by Professor Graeme Hugo shows that refugee families eventually match and in many cases exceed Australian-born levels of economic and social contribution.
So - in the spirit of Christmas - please open your minds (and hearts) to asylum seekers and demonstrate that Australia is truly the lucky - and tolerant - country.
Please have a fantastic Christmas and a safe and happy New Year.
Best wishes,
Ivan |
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 Focus on Local Government
Broken Hill promotes the use of demographics to their community
The Broken Hill City Council recently adopted the use of profile.id and economy.id to explore and understand the changing characteristics of their community and their economy. As with all .id clients, we encouraged them to promote and share these tools so their local community, local businesses and other regional associations could also access the sites to provide an evidence-base for their own planning and investment decisions. We are delighted that they have done just that, by preparing an interesting and engaging media release containing pertinent observations as well as insightful comments. Please read their release, published verbatim, below: read more..
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 Census Matters 2016 Census consultation now open!
Under the cover of Melbourne Cup Day, Tuesday 6th November, the Australian Bureau of Statistics quietly released its proposals for the 2016 Census count.
With the release of 2011 Census still fresh in everyone's mind, now is the chance to have your say about what the 2016 Census will look like. There are some pretty radical changes in here, particularly to collection.
The key points and our response are below. For more info, read on!
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 Where has all our employment gone?
After first release of Census, I wrote a blog about the higher quality of the Census data in 2011, compared to 2006.
In general this is true, but unfortunately the second release has revealed an area where the quality of the 2011 Census is far far worse than 2006 or 2001. This is in the area of place of work, or work destination data, and it makes time series comparison very difficult for our users.
This means we will be less able to rely on Census as an estimate of workforce numbers in 2011, and underscores the need for modelled estimates to give LGAs a better handle on their number of workers.
Read on for more information.
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inside .id
Thank you to all our clients and our staff
Here at .id, we've had a very busy year. With the release of the 2011 Census results, we needed to update over 230+ profile.id sites, a task we completed within 3 months of the data being released, On the back of that, we embarked on an intense season of training, to share the new features of the profile tool - and the new data - with all of our clients, as soon as possible. So we'd like to sincerely thank our clients for their support, for assisting in arranging the on-site training - and of course - for their use of sound evidence in their decision making. We'd like to thank our newsletter and blog readers - we now have over 6000 subscribers to our newsletter - a figure we are very proud of. And of course, we'd like to thank our own staff - our loyal and incredibly hard working team that has toiled long hours this year, to make sure the new profile was delivered on time, with all the new data installed, on top of all our other work including population forecasts, forecast updates, consulting work and much more. The .id office will be closed from Monday 24 December to Wednesday 2nd January. So we hope you enjoy some of these articles over the break (bit of demographic beach side reading!), enjoy your holidays and we look forward to working with you again next year. The .id team.
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A word from our researchers
Yet another year of record birth numbers in Australia
Each year, around this time, the ABS releases data on births in Australia. As we blogged last year, not only is this interesting information, but it provides our forecast team with very up to date data to inform our assumptions. What are the highlights of this year's release? read more.. | |
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A blog (mostly) about death
Following on from the annual release of births data, yes you guessed it - the ABS recently released Deaths, Australia (Cat. no. 3302.0). This release contains statistics on the number and characteristics of deaths in Australia, including data for small geographic areas such as LGAs. Similar to births, data on deaths forms a critical component of our population forecasts. We summarise some of the main points from this year's release. read more.. | |
 Final word I'll have mine with a twist of lemon Two of the main aspects of "money" are a medium of exchange and a measure of value. But it seems in recent times, other items or common purchases have become a measure of value in themselves. One of these, especially lately, seems to be a cup of coffee. It seems that every day, we are enticed to buy things on TV, radio or print advertising for "less than the daily price of a cup of coffee". For example, many types of insurance can apparently be had for less than the price of a cup of coffee per day. But how much does this represent, and does it make sense to make this comparison? read more.. |
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