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Understand your local economy with this up-to-date analysis of the jobs, workers, and workforce in your locality, council or region. Our Portrait 2011 assembles the most recent data from a variety of sources to give you an illustrated snapshot of your local economy.

Our Portrait 2011 provides a cost-effective solution to the problem of keeping up to date without wasting time. The Portrait combines data from the Censuses with more current data from the ABS, the Tax Office, CentreLink, and the Department of Employment.

The Portrait analyses the industries, businesses, capacities and workforce of any Council area (or combination of areas). 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.

The Portrait 2011 saves you weeks of work by assembling and examining data on your community's capacities, businesses, industries and workforce. Now you can produce the facts, illustrated with graphs, when you need them.

Specifications

The Portrait 2011 uses data from the 2001 and 2006 Censuses for both the residents and working populations, supplemented with more recent data including the ABS estimated population to 2009, unemployment rates to 2010, Tax Office and Centrelink data to 2009.

Each of the 45 topics prints as an A4 page or two, with text explaining the key features, charts and associated data tables. Some topics are interactive, in the Excel version, allowing you to focus on particular subgroups (e.g. age groups or gender).

The Portrait is provided as an Excel workbook. The main report sheet contains the Portrait, ready to print or edit as you will. Other sheets contain all the source data from which the Portrait extracts its information.

The Portrait is also delivered as a PDF, ready to be uploaded to your website, and as a text file, for ease of cut-and-paste.

Sample

Click here to download a PDF of a Portrait 2011, or here a brochure on the Portrait.

Email us for an Excel sample.

Price

The Portrait 2011 costs $3,800 plus GST. It is provided in PDF, Excel and text-only formats. In the Excel version, you can use the interactive features of the Portrait, edit the text and colours as needed, and print your edited versions in hardcopy or as a PDF for distribution, including uploading to websites.

The Portrait is updated quarterly when new data is released.

The Portrait Painter software allows you to produce as many Portraits as you want. Designed for government departments, this is the economical way to provide data for many and any communities. For more details on this, please contact us.

To order an Portrait 2011, you can download an order form here or call us.

Proudly supporting Economic Development Australia

We are members and supporters of Economic Development Australia, an association of professionals working in the field.

The Public Practice is proud to have been a Sponsor of the last three National Economic Development Conferences.

In 2009, Colin Menzies, our Managing Director, presented a paper at the conference on Assisting Local Indigenous Employment. In 2008, he presented on the availability of data at the local level for economic planning.