A BTRE perspective on regional indicators
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Leanne JohnsonRegional Research Leader, BTRE
A BTRE perspective on regional indicators
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Outline of presentation
• Overview of regional research in BTRE
• Regional information and indicators
• Issues
• Directions
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Background
• Regional research introduced to BTRE in 2002- Small team of 8 researchers
• What we do:– Undertake research projects and publish reports– Provide advice on research related issues– Build and maintain networks– Events
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BTRE Research Programme
• Set each year following consultations– Department’s executive and senior officers– Other Australian government agencies– External stakeholders
• If minister requires any significant new matter to be investigated, the bureau modifies its programme accordingly
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BTRE regional publications
• About Australia’s Regions pocket-size booklet
• Focus on Regions series
• Government interventions in pursuit of regional development
• Regional Public Transport
• Investment Trends in the Lower Murray Darling Basin
• Skill Shortages in Australia’s Regions
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Current research
• Drivers of economic growth in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Region
• Tasmania’s economic development
• Regional impacts of water trading in the Murray Valley
• Cost of remoteness
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Regional information and indicators
• Transport in regions
• National Regional Evaluation Framework (NREF)• About Australia’s Regions• Focus on Regions
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About Australia’s Regions
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Focus on Regions
1. Industry structure
2. Education, skills and qualifications
3. Taxable income (+ update)
4. Social capital
5. Welfare dependency
6. Household wealth
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Focus on Regions 1: Industry structure
• Census data from 1991, 1996 and 2001
• BTRE Industry Structure Database
• Regional unit of analysis– Statistical local areas– BTRE labour market regions
• Research findings– Changes in regional industry structure between 1991 and 2001– Industry structure and regional economic growth
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Focus on Regions 3: Taxable Income
• Indicators of economic growth for small areas– Time series: 1980-81 to 2000-01– Aggregate real taxable income (ARTI)– Real income per taxpayer (RIPT)
• Upgrade to 2003-04 due out shortly
• Provides tool for understanding impacts of events on local economies
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Focus on Regions 4: Social capital
• Conceptual framework: ABS Measuring Social Capital, An Australian Framework and Indicators– Selected 33 social capital indicators – Snapshot for 2001-02– Social Capital Indicators Database
• Regions
• Analysis
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Focus on Regions 6: Household wealth• Project aims to develop & analyse measures of household
wealth for regions
• Survey data provides benchmark measures
• Small area data for specific components of wealth:– Valuer General’s house price data, Census home ownership data– ATO: Interest earned on bank accounts, Imputation credits, HECS– ABARE farm business assets and debts
• Methodologies for producing small area estimates
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Common issues (1)
• Nationally comparable data for regions
• Access
• Geography
• Time– Regularly updated
– Timely
– Historic time-series
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Common issues (2)
• Spatial disaggregation
• Gaps
• Modelling and estimation
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Directions
• Building upon work done to date– Sponge cities– Drivers of labour mobility– Regional and national economic cycles
• COAG National Reform Agenda
• Statistics and data management
• Relationships and networks
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Questions?
Leanne JohnsonRegional Research & StatisticsBureau of Transport & Regional Economics (BTRE)Department of Transport & Regional Services (DOTARS)
Tel: 02 6274 7355 [email protected] www.dotars.gov.auwww.btre.gov.au