central west Regional economic snapshot

1. central west Regional economic snapshot Danielle Ranshaw CEO Western Research Institute Central West Jobs Summit 2014

2. Outline • Features of our regional economy • Manufacturing in the Central West • Measuring the impacts of a large manufacturer • Alternative measures of impact • Issues facing manufacturing

3. Central West NSW Central West Statistical Area 4

4. Regional context: top contributors • At an aggregate level, Mining, Manufacturing and Agriculture are the top contributors to the generation of value added in the Central West. • The top employment generators are Agriculture;Health & Community; and Manufacturing.

5. Central west Growth/Decline by Sector • Mining reported the strongest growth in employment between 2006 and 2011. • Manufacturing and Agriculture, two historically important sectors, experienced declines.

6. Central west Growth/Decline by Sector (Shift Share analysis) A shift-share analysis identifies industries that have grown at a faster or slower rate than state and industry averages. From this we can tell which sectors are: • Between 2006 and 2011, Manufacturing was a low employment growth industry across NSW (relative to the growth of all sectors) - even more noticeable in the Central West. • With the exception of Mining, regional factors have had a negative influence on sectoral performance.

7. Post school education levels • As at the 2011 Census, the highest post school qualification held was most commonly a Certificate III or IV (15% of the population). • 7% held a Bachelor degree • 5% held a Diploma or Advanced Diploma • 1% held a Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma • 1% held a Postgraduate degree

8. Occupations (2011) • The top industries employing technicians & trades workers were: • Manufacturing (16% of all technicians & trades workers) • Construction (16%) • Other services (15%) • Mining (12%)

9. Occupations (2011) • The top industries employing managers were: • Agriculture (45% of all managers) • Retail Trade (11%) • Manufacturing (7%) • The top industries employing labourers were: • Manufacturing (19% of all labourers) • Accommodation & food services (16%) • Agriculture (12%) • The top industries employing Machinery operators & drivers were: • Mining (31% of all machinery operators & drivers) • Transport, postal and warehousing (21%) • Manufacturing (14%)

10. unemployment Unemployment in the Central West has remained below that for the Rest of NSW over the past five years, hovering around 5%. Periodically, it has been below that for NSW as a whole, however, more recently has tracked closer to the NSW unemployment rate.

11. Manufacturing: regional comparisons The data shows that manufacturing plays a more significant role in the Central West, Orange and Bathurst, than it does for NSW as a whole. Issues facing manufacturing are therefore more pertinent for Central West communities.

12. count of manufacturing businesses In the Central West there has been a slight reduction in the overall number of Manufacturing businesses between 2009 and 2012, down from 650 to 624 businesses. • Looking at this by business size: • Largest falls were in small businesses (employing between 1 and 19 people) • Marginal increases in medium-large businesses (employing 20-199 people) • Looking at this by business turnover: • Businesses with a turnover less than $2 million fell significantly; while • there was a marginal increases in businesses with a turnover in excess of $2 million

13. Occupations involved in manufacturing • As at 2011 Census, the top occupations involved in manufacturing in the Central West were: • Technicians and trades workers (27%) • Labourers (25%) • Machinery operators and drivers (14%) • Managers (14%)

14. Measuring the impact of manufacturers…. WRI is often asked to estimate the contributions that an organisation makes to a region in terms of: • Gross Regional Product or industry value added; • FTE employment; and • household income. We do this by first building a model of the economy of the region and then inserting the operational data (local expenditures and locally generated incomes) of the organisation into the model.

15. Measuring the impact of manufacturers…. The model works through the industry supply chain and the purchases of employees to show the initial and flow on effects that the organisation has on the region: • The initial effect is the value of immediate changes in the regional economy as a result of an organisation’s operations. • The flow on effect is the value of changes in the regional economy in the course of additional spending by other firms and industries linked to the organisation (suppliers). By including wage and salary data in the model, the estimates produced also account for the expenditure of employees in the local economy.

16. Study: electrolux (2012) Electrolux has a large presence in Orange Local Government Area employing: • 534 FTE staff from the Orange LGA; and • a small number from Blayney, Cabonne and Bathurst LGAs. Total of 589 FTE staff across the Central West statistical area (SA4)

17. Study: electrolux When flow-on effects are taken into account, Electrolux’s operations are estimated to generate the following in the economy of the Central West: • Approximately $80.92 million in value added, contributing 1.01 percent of GRP; • Approximately $53.38 million in income, representing 1.41 percent of household income; and • Approximately 864 FTE jobs, representing 1.31 percent of the Central West’s total FTE employment.

18. Study: electrolux The sectors most impacted by Electrolux’s operations are: • Transport & storage • Finance & insurance • Retail • Health & community • Wholesale • Hospitality • Education These impacts are the result of purchases made by Electrolux in the local economy and the expenditure patterns of its employees

19. Alternative measures of impact Other studies WRI has conducted try to quantify some of the “on the ground” contributions made by an organisation’s workforce to a region, for instance: • Family members who work in other sectors in the region; • Community services and facilities used by the workforce; • Schools supported through the children of the workforce; • Local volunteer groups who benefit from participation by members of this workforce. These measures are important when considering how the closure of operations may affect other community services and sectors.

20. Issues facing manufacturing • Nationally, manufacturing’s share of output and employment has declined since the late 1970s and there has been a shift towards services boosted by specific government assistance. • Reductions in assistance to manufacturing (tariff levels) since the 1970s, not matched OS. • Over the past 5 years especially we’ve experienced astrong exchange rate and terms of trade (strong export prices for minerals and energy and weak import prices for manufactured goods from developing Asian economies). • Greater investment in mining has put pressure on other sectors (including competition for labour).

21. Why is this a problem? • Manufacturing historically has played a vital role in the economic growth of nations because of its impact on wealth, capital accumulation and productivity and because it generates significant flow-on impacts through incomes and jobs. • The flow-on impacts of the manufacturing sector are typically some of the most significant. • The decline of manufacturing as import penetration increases erodes domestic manufacturing’s productive capital, including technology and skills. • Maintaining such a presence may be particularly important if manufacturing activity is seen as an important source of technological progress.