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Telling the story of your community with demographics
- 1. 1 Telling the story of your community with demographics Community Planning and Development Short Course 2012 Lailani Burra .
- 3. 3 Outline • Why demographics? • Your demographic tool kit • Where to get demographic information • The principles of good demographic analysis • Case study • Questions
- 4. 4 Why demographics? • Facilitiating the development of happy and sustainable communities • What that means in practice will be different for different types of places
- 5. support local business empower community groups advocate for your community influence government make evidence-based decisions understand your community informed decisions the community engage decision makers persuade your people inform Why demographics? .idinformed decisions
- 6. understand your working population economic profile5 economy housing policy for sustainable communities housing capacity and affordability analysis4 housing plan for the future population forecast3 forecast allocate your resources social atlas2 atlas understand your community community profile1 profile .idinformed decisions Demographic toolkit
- 7. 7 The most comprehensive source of demographic data is the Census Census data enables you to: – tell the story of your place – test your assumptions about your place – articulate your community’s unique characteristics – understand how your community is changing Census data is complex and requires considerable expertise to convert into knowledge about your place
- 8. 8 Converting data into knowledge • Story telling – What is our residential role and function? • Appropriate geography – Who are our communities of interest? • Benchmarking – How do we compare to our region? – How diverse are we? • Time series – How are we changing? – Is this change desirable?
- 9. 9 People are predictable Household life cycle
- 10. 10 Communities are groups of people Suburb life cycle
- 11. 11 Examples Melville City - Resource allocation Bankstown City – Children’s services
- 12. 12 Converting data into knowledge • Story telling – What is our residential role and function? • Appropriate geography – Who are our communities of interest? • Benchmarking – How do we compare to our region? – How diverse are we? • Time series – How are we changing? – Is this change desirable?
Editor's Notes
- Tell the story of Palm Beach. How the planners thought it was the suburb most likely to have elderly people – but turns out it’s changing. Age structure of Gold Coast. Age structure of Palm Beach. Household type. Dwelling type. Just take them through the story here without too much explanation of what you are doing – will refer to it throughout the presentation
- Hidden slide – didn’t use it
- Hidden slide – didn’t use it
- Use examples to explain the power of a demographic evidence base. Refer back to the Gold Coast example
- You might want to adapt this for NZ or leave it out