18 April 2018 The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the long-awaited Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA, based on 2016 Census) dataset on 27 March 2018 (link). SEIFA is a modelled measure by integrating a wide range of social and economic attributes about the Australian population in an geographic area. SEIFA is generally regarded as one [...]

10 August 2017 In the previous post, we presented the increase of Australian population and residential dwellings from 2006 to 2016, and how they vary across States and Territories. In this post, we report how much and how fast exposure has changed in coastal regions during the same period. (Australia is sometimes seen as the world’s largest [...]

10 August 2017 The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has recently released the first batch of 2016 Census data, and its DataPacks can be obtained here. The new time series profiles on community characteristics provide a unique perspective on how Australian exposure has been changing over the past decade. In this post, we report population [...]