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The Community Portrait is a 37–page, full-colour, illustrated demographic profile describing the key social and economic characteristics and changes of any place in Australia, as shown by the Census. It is the core tool for understanding your area's community.

The Community Portrait turns the ABS Basic Community Profile, a set of 40-odd tables from the Census, into an easy-to-read report describing the key demographic characteristics and changes of any community. Topics cover population growth, households, housing, community capital, education, employment and community culture. Every community needs this essential demographic profile.

This report brings your statistics to life by explaining data and pointing out key facts in clear writing. Statistics are given meaning by comparing your community over two Censuses and with a second area, which you nominate. Each Community Portrait has over 5,000 words of clearly written text, 45 charts and 43 tables.

Specifications

The Community Portrait uses data from the ABS Basic Community Profile (BCP) from the most recent Census, reporting on all the available topics. It compares data for your area for two Censuses with data for a second area (eg. wider region or state - your choice) to provide an explanation of what the data shows.

The Community Portrait 2006 has new sections on disability and caring, using new Census data.

The Community Portrait is provided as an Excel spreadsheet consisting of various sheets. Your Portrait is the main sheet, ready to print or edit. Four more sheets hold the ABS data for the two areas and two Censuses, for easy reference.

A PDF or HTML version can be published from Excel or provided with your order, if needed, as one document or a set of theme reports. You can easily cut charts, text or tables from your Portrait into Word, PowerPoint or other applications.

Above left: sample Community Portrait contents page. Below right: sample Portraits page. Click on either to enlarge.

A Community Portrait can be prepared for any Census area from the smallest, a Census Collectors District of about 200 houses, to a suburb, postcode, council or region, or any combination.

Note that the 2006 Census will be reported on the basis of place of usual residence, so the ABS Basic Community Profile will describe all people who normally live in a place. The 2001 Basic Community Profiles were based on the place of enumeration (where people were counted on Census night, regardless of where they lived). That meant that visitors were included but absentee residents were not.

Our Community Portrait 2006 will be based on place of usual residence, since that is more useful for planning and community development. To compare your 2006 data with the 2001 data, we will create a comparable 2001 data profile by merging the ABS 2001 Usual Resident Profile (which only describes residents) with the 2001 Basic Community Profile (which has dwelling data). A new Visitors Portrait to examine the characteristics of visitors is under consideration.

Sample

Click to view a sample 2006 Community Portrait as a PDF.

Price

The 2006 Community Portrait is available now for $1,700 plus GST for your first area, and half price ($850 plus GST) for any subsequent areas (eg suburbs, townships, wards or collector’s districts).

To order, download an order form here.