Socio—Economic Indexes DSSpecVersion_eg21
Definition
DataSetSpecDefinition_egThe person level geographical location data elements in this cluster refer to the person's usual
residence. This is defined below.
When collecting the geographical location of a person's usual place of residence, the
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recommends that 'usual' be defined as: 'the place where
the person has or intends to live for 6 months or more, or the place that the person regards as
their main residence, or where the person has no other residence, the place they currently
reside.' Apart from collecting a person's usual place of residence there is also a need in some
collections to collect area of residence immediately prior to or after assistance is provided, or
at some other point in time.
Collection and usage information
Collection Method
DataSetSpecCollectionMethod eg Surveys Polls Interview StatisticalMethods DelphiTechnique FocusGroups Internet SalesReports GovermentReports
Metadata items in this Data Set Specification
Below is a list of all the components within this Dataset Specification.
Each entry includes the item name, whether the item is optional, mandatory or conditional and the maximum times the item can occur in a dataset.
If the items must occur in a particular order in the dataset, the sequence number is included before the item name.
Data Elements
Reference | Data Element | Data Type | Length | Inclusion | # |
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Person (address)—Australian postcode, code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN}
Conditional Inclusion:
Only collected for unit record level collection for Early Childhood Education and Care
|
- | - | conditional | 1 | |
Person—area of usual residence, geographical location CD code, (ASGC 2009) NNNNNNN
Conditional Inclusion:
Only collected for unit record level collection for Early Childhood Education and Care
|
- | - | conditional | 1 | |
Service provider organisation (address)—Australian postcode, code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN} | Number | 4 | optional | 1 | |
Service provider organisation—geographic location (CD), code (ASGC 2009) NNNNNNN | Number | 7 | optional | 1 |
Comments
DataSetSpecComments eg Guide for use:
SEIFA is a suite of four summary measures that have been created from 2006 Census
information. The indexes can be used to explore different aspects of socio-economic
conditions by geographic areas. For each index, every geographic area in Australia is given a
SEIFA number which shows how disadvantaged that area is compared with other areas in
Australia.
Each index summarises a different aspect of the socio-economic conditions of people living in
an area. They each summarise a different set of social and economic information. The
indexes provide more general measures of socio-economic status than is given by measuring
income or unemployment alone, for example.
The four indexes in SEIFA 2006 are:
Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage: is derived from Census variables
related to disadvantage, such as low income, low educational attainment,
unemployment, and dwellings without motor vehicles.
Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage: a continuum of
advantage (high values) to disadvantage (low values) which is derived from Census
variables related to both advantage and disadvantage, like household with low income
and people with a tertiary education.
Index of Economic Resources: focuses on Census variables like the income, housing
expenditure and assets of households.
Index of Education and Occupation: includes Census variables relating to the
educational and occupational characteristics of communities, like the proportion of
people with a higher qualification or those employed in a skilled occupation.
The concept of relative socio-economic disadvantage is neither simple, nor well defined.
SEIFA uses a broad definition of relative socio-economic disadvantage in terms of people's
access to material and social resources, and their ability to participate in society. While SEIFA
represents an average of all people living in an area, SEIFA does not represent the individual
situation of each person. Larger areas are more likely to have greater diversity of people and
households.
SEIFA 2006 is released for the following geographic levels:
Census Collection District (CD);
Postal Area (POA);
Statistical Local Area (SLA); and
Local Government Area (LGA).
The basic geographic level used to create SEIFA is the CD. The CD is the smallest spatial unit
in the Australian Standard Geographic Classification (ASGC) (ABS cat no 1216.0). SLAs and
LGAs are larger units in the ASGC. POAs are a CD-based approximation of Australia Post
postcodes, and are part of the Census Geographic Areas classification (ABS cat no 2905.0).
Origin
DataSetSpecOrigin
References
DataSetSpecReferences_eg
Information Paper: An Introduction to Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), 2006 (ABS
cat no 2039.0)
Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) - Technical Paper 2006 (ABS cat no 2039.0.55.001)
National Localities Index, Australia, Jul 2007 Final (ABS cat no 1252.0.55.001)
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