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A BTRE perspective on regional indicators

A BTRE perspective on regional indicators. Leanne Johnson Regional Research Leader, BTRE. Outline of presentation. Overview of regional research in BTRE Regional information and indicators Issues Directions. Background.

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A BTRE perspective on regional indicators

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  1. A BTRE perspective on regional indicators Leanne Johnson Regional Research Leader, BTRE

  2. Outline of presentation • Overview of regional research in BTRE • Regional information and indicators • Issues • Directions

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Regional information and indicators • Transport in regions • National Regional Evaluation Framework (NREF) • About Australia’s Regions • Focus on Regions

  8. About Australia’s Regions

  9. Focus on Regions • Industry structure • Education, skills and qualifications • Taxable income (+ update) • Social capital • Welfare dependency • Household wealth

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Common issues (1) • Nationally comparable data for regions • Access • Geography • Time • Regularly updated • Timely • Historic time-series

  15. Common issues (2) • Spatial disaggregation • Gaps • Modelling and estimation

  16. 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

  17. Questions? Leanne Johnson Regional Research & Statistics Bureau of Transport & Regional Economics (BTRE) Department of Transport & Regional Services (DOTARS) Tel: 02 6274 7355 leanne.johnson@dotars.gov.au www.dotars.gov.au www.btre.gov.au

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