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PORTRAITS & REPORTS
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Understand your local economy with this clear analysis of the jobs, workers, and workforce in your council or region.

Sample Economic Portrait  
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The Economic Portrait turns Census and other ABS data into an illustrated, 24 page report describing the industries and workforce of any Council area.

The Economic Portrait analyses local industries and occupations, and the incomes, education, birthplaces and social characteristics of the workforce. It compares your resident workers with your local workforce to show the types of workers 'imported' and 'exported' from your area, and it includes comparisons between 2006 and 2001 data to show changes in your local economy.

Quite simply, what the Economic Portrait does is assemble your local area economic data from the ABS, load this into a spreadsheet with interpretative tables and charts, then writes text explaining the data and highlighting local trends. The report is ready to print in hard copy or as a PDF for your website. But because it is in Excel, you can alter any parts you want, or cut and paste into another report. Many tables are interactive so you can focus on subgroups such as gender.

Specifications

The Economic Portrait uses data from the ABS Working Population Profile and Basic Community Profile from the 2001 and 2006 Censuses. The report is divided into 4 sections:

Introducing the workforce
Workforce age profile
Workforce ageing
Part-time work by age
Working hours by age
Labour demand and supply
The industries in your area
Sizes of industry sectors
Specific industries in your area
The changing sizes of industries
The average working week by industry
Working patterns across industries
Types of businesses and working hours
Working patterns by role, workers by age
Occupations in your area
Men and women in occupations
Specific occupations in your area
Occupational changes 2001 to 2006
Occupations across industries
Working hours of different occupations
Characteristics of workers
Qualifications of workers
Birthplaces of workforce
Industries and language of overseas-born workers
Incomes of workforce
Incomes by age

Each topic prints on an A4 page with text explaining the key features, charts and associated data tables. Some topics are interactive, allowing you to focus on particular subgroups (eg. age groups or gender).

The Economic Portrait is provided as an Excel workbook. The main report sheet contains the Portrait, ready to print or edit as you will. The second sheet summarises all of the key data. Then there are five sheets of ABS data tables, from which the Portrait extracts its information, and finally a User Notes sheet.

The Economic Portrait is also delivered as a PDF, ready to be uploaded to your website.

Sample

Click here to download a PDF of an Economic Portrait. Email us for an Excel sample.

Price

The Economic Portrait costs $1,800, including GST. Order now for fast delivery. We invoice on delivery.

National Economic Development Conference

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The Public Practice is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of the upcoming National Economic Development Conference.

We will be presenting at the conference on the importance of economic planning to sustainable planning at any council. The presentation will focus on supporting planning with statistical evidence from Census data and maximising the value of Census data and the use of travel data in economic studies.

Our presentation will take place at 4.40pm on Wednesday 8 October 2008.

If you are attending the conference, we'd love to see you. Drop by our stall.