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Measuring the impact of environmental risk and climate change perceptions

An article outlining the challenges local governments and other governments in Australia face with regard to understanding environmental risk and perceptions of climate change in their community.

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How Councils can influence affordable housing

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Things to consider when surveying communities

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How To Articles

Measuring the impact of environmental risk and climate change perceptions

Grunt work and granularity required in grant proposals

The Importance of Land Use Planning in Local Government Areas

Understanding demographics is key to helping communities facing barriers

What is shaping population growth in regional Queensland?

The health of a nation

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Applying for funding? Here’s a free step-by-step grant application guide.

Should I use enumerated data, usual residence data or estimated resident population?

Predicting your area’s future heart health

Population densities of Australian Capital Cities – Melbourne and Sydney

Population densities of Australian Capital Cities – Melbourne and Sydney

Population densities of Australian capital cities – Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

How to tell the story of culturally diverse communities – Burmese in Maroondah

How to create your own population pyramid

How to calculate the economic impact of running an event

Converting .id PDF reports to Word format

How to calculate the median weekly personal income?

National demographic indicators – where does your area rank?

The story of culturally diverse communities – Indians in Parramatta

Advanced users – Shift Share Analysis for calculating regional competitive advantage

Who are your Communities of Interest?

What is a “Location Quotient” and how do I calculate it?

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Frankston – unfairly tarnished with one brush?

Modelling the impact of changes to your economy

Do your industries mainly export or sell to locals?

A look at high density housing in Sydney

How to build custom demographic reports and export data

Check the data notes!

What do demographic characteristics tell us about who sets the local agenda?

How do I get information out of .id’s websites?

Making sense of population counts

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Victoria – the state with the most….growth

How to uncover issues in your economy to inform Economic Development policy, using economy.id

Immigration in the last 5 years – focus on South Australia

Where is the best place to put the .id links on your website?

economy.id ? using the infrastructure page for promotion

How to get the most out of your social atlas

South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula – A Story of Rapid Growth

Quartiles – a technique for comparing incomes across time and place

What is employment self-sufficiency?

What is employment self-containment?

Western Australia – Is it all about mining?

Counting employment – which figures to use

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

The power of data download

Who is moving to the Gold Coast?

How to identify a gentrifying area?

Should I use Enumerated or Usual Residence data?

Coober Pedy – a look at the underground town’s Community Profile

Other Resources

Free Grant application cheat sheet

Housing report started guide

How Councils can influence affordable housing

Things to consider when surveying communities

Meet the team of experts

Daniel Evans

Andrew Hedge

Ben Saines

Crystal McDonald

Daniel Corbett

Brigid Quinlan

Chris Jones