Spotlight on Population Resources for Geography Teachers
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Spotlight on Population Resources for Geography Teachers
Pat Beeson,
Education Services,
Australian Bureau of Statistics
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Population
• Population size• Distribution• Age Structure• Ethnic composition• Gender• Growth rates• Local area data
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Spotlight on ABS
Let’s begin by putting the spotlight on you!
http://spotlight.abs.gov.au/
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Education Web Pages
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Catalogue Numbers1. General2. Census 3. Demography ( births,
deaths, migration, population)
4. Social (education, health, environment)
5 – 9 National accounts, labour, agriculture, industry and transport
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Use the tabs
• Summary• Downloads• Explanatory Notes• Related Information• Past and Future Releases
Please collect: Publications of Use to Geography Teachers: Population
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Downloads
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Population Clock and Population Pyramids On 2 August 2011 at 02:12:53PM (Canberra time), the resident population of Australia is projected to be:
22,667,772• One birth every 1 minute and 46 seconds• One death every 3 minutes and 40 seconds• A net gain of one international migration every 3 minutes and 05
seconds• Overall total population increase of one person every 1 minute and
37 seconds• Links to animated population pyramids and historical population
statistics
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Animated pyramids
Links to historical and other demographic statisticsRequires free plug in from Adobe Flash Player
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Australia: 1971, 2011, 2056
1971
2011
2056
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Population Structure
Competition: Guess the state or territory
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Estimated Resident Population(ERP)Official Population Count.
Australian Demographic Statistics – Cat. no. 3101.0 Population by Age and Sex - Cat. no. 3201.0Regional Population Growth - Cat. no. 3218.0
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Old ABS Geography- ASGC
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Changing ABS GeographiesCollection DistrictsCollection district
Mesh Blocks and more
347,627 mesh blocksCensus – population and dwellings only
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Mesh Blocks NSW
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New ASGS (Australian Statistical Geography Standard)
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SA 1 Rural NSW
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SA 1 Urban NSW
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SA 2 Urban NSW
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Digital Boundaries• FREE• For GIS use• Geographies - ASGC, Census and new
ASGS • ESRI .shp and MapInfo .MIF formats• Downloadable zip files• Join data to map using a common field
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ASGS digital boundaries 1270.0.55.003• Australian
Drainage Divisions• Natural Resource
Management Regions
• Tourism Regions
• LGA• Postal Areas• State suburbs• Commonwealth
Electoral Divisions• State Electoral
Divisions
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Census Products
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QuickStats
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QuickStats
• Persons, Families, Dwellings
• One area
• Statistics as a percentage of all people
• Australia comparison
• Based on Place of Usual Residence, 2006
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Population Density, 2006 Postal area 2037
GlebeChoropleth mapping by
collection district
Categories in legend vary for adjacent areas
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SEIFA: Measuring Advantage and Disadvantage• Relative Socio-economic
Disadvantage• Scores within the State allow
comparison between areas• Smaller areas provide a better
picture. • Collection Districts (2006)
Suburbs, LGAs and SLA Geographies
Census measures include
• Low Income• Low Educational Attainment• Unemployment• Dwellings without Motor
Vehicles
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National Regional Profile
• LGAs • Economy• Population/People• Industry• Environment/Energy• 2005 – 2009
• Excel Spread sheets
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ABS Betaworks
• Look for ‘First Visit’? Google Earth
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Education services• Quickgeog• Geo_01-14 • Historical statistics• Visualisations• Interactive pyramids• Datasets• Indigenous statistics• CensusAtSchool• Education News
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Classroom Ideas
• DistributionsEven distribution
Clustered distribution
Settlement on the edge of a flood plain or in a glaciated valley perhaps
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Settlement along a road
Radial settlement-reflecting a transport network perhaps
Settlement along a river
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What is the population density for Australia?
Why is SE corner empty?
Representing Australia’s population distribution
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Population Distribution
What is the best method to represent population distribution?
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Population GrowthBirths
Emigration
Deaths
Immigration POPULATION
Diagram used in QuickGeog. No. 1 Activity
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Quickgeog Activities
Demographic transition Indigenous Structure
Diagrams provided in QuickGeog. Activities
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Historical statistics
• Growth population• 1788 +• Indigenous • Countries of birth• Sex ratios • Interactive
Visualisations
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Visualisations
• History Dataset: H1
• What are the stories?
• Country of Birth, median age and sex ratio 1996 -2010
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CensusAtSchool• Annual online
survey of students• Over 25,000
responses• 30 questions• Opinions on
environment• Supporting
materials
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Education News
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