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Studying Spatial Economic Relationships
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Studying Spatial Economic Relationships
Presenter: Dr Karen MalamRegions
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Regional economies• Boundaries
– Functional unit– Customised
• Data– Small area estimation– Survey data
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Industry Structure
• Differences in regional industry structure plays a significant, but partial, role in explaining differences in regional economic growth.
• A region's industry structure is closely tied to the size of its economy – but what is a regional economy?
• Needed to develop working zone boundaries
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Working zones
• Labour market - economic functional area • Based on commuting flows between Statistical Local Areas
Local Government Areas BITRE’s Working zones
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Map of Melbourne’s Working Zone
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Commuting to Wyndham North SLA
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Melbourne 2030 activity centres
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All CADs
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Employment average annual growth rate, 2001 to 2006
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Population movements
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Population movements, 2001 to 2006
9 Major Cities Unit, Department of Infrastructure and Transport 2011
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Household Wealth• To improve understanding of
household wealth & its relevance to regional wellbeing
• To explore the relationship between regional wealth and regional income
• To develop and analyse new measures of household wealth for Australia’s regions– 2003-04 snapshot
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Methodology• Small area estimation
• ABS Survey of Income and Housing 2003-04– Provides capital city/state balance benchmarks for each wealth component
• Small area data sources:– Valuer -General’s data on property sales– ATO Taxation Statistics– Census data– Other ABS data
• Estimates produced for 1135 Statistical Local Areas
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Average household wealth, 2003-04
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Comparison of wealth and income
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Social Capital
• Analyse the spatial dimensions of social capital in Australia.
• Explore the extent to which social capital is related to particular aspects of the economic and social wellbeing of Australia’s regions.
• Measure key elements of social capital at a regional scale.
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• ABS Social Capital framework
• Data sources
– Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA)
– ABS General Social Survey
• Boundaries
– Capital cities and Balance of state
– Remoteness classification
– 69 BITRE defined regions
• 33 Social Capital indicators
Methodology
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Network qualities• Feeling of safety at home after dark• Neighbours helping each other out• Volunteering rate• Active membership• Labour force participation rate
Network structure• Frequency of social contact• Usage of email or chat sites in the last 12 months• Proportion who live in the same SLA as they did 5 years ago
Network transactions• Could ask someone for a favour• Capacity to raise $2000 in a week for emergency• Integration into the community
Network types• I often feel very lonely• Only get together socially once a months or less with friends or relatives
Examples of indicators
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Community involvement
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Concluding remarks• Regional economies
• Boundaries– Administrative– ABS – Mesh blocks – Functional area– Customised area
• Availability of data– Wide variety of sources (sometimes of varying quality). – Development of new datasets – Confidentiality and small sample size
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