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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 latest version, the Economic Development Portrait 2010, turns Census and more recent data into an illustrated, 53 page report describing the industries, buisnesses, 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.

Some councils that are using the Economic Portrait include Leichhardt, Gosnells, Launceston, Gunnedah, George Town, Moree Plains, Adelaide, Sutherland, Kogarah, Subiaco, Brimbank and Port Macquarie-Hastings.

Specifications

The Economic Portrait 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 2008.

The report is divided into 7 sections:

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, or here a brochure on the Economic Portrait.

Email us for an Excel sample.

Price

The Economic Development Portrait 2010 costs $4,200 plus GST. It is provided in PDF and Excel formats. This allows you to use the interactive features of the Portrait, manipulate the text and colours as needed and print in hardcopy or as a PDF for distribution, including uploading to websites.

The Economic Portrait Painter software that allows you to produce as many Economic Portraits as you want. Designed for government departments, this is the economical way to provide data to multiple councils. For more details on this, please contact us on 02 9011 8159.

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

National Economic Development Conference

The Public Practice is proud to be been a Silver Sponsor of the 2009 National Economic Development Conference.

Colin Menzies, Managing Director will be preseting at the conference on Assisting Local Indigenous Employment. If you are attending the conference, come by and visit us at our stall (No. 3).

In 2008, we were also a Silver Sponsor and presented on the importance of economic planning to sustainable planning at any council. The presentation focused 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.