How do I get information out of .id’s websites?
One of the questions we get asked most often at .id training sessions is how to get the data, charts and text out of the .id websites and into your working documents and presentations....
Monthly Archive: May 2012
Perth’s population – a story of economic boom
Perth is Australia’s 4th largest city, and contains the bulk of Western Australia’s population. Perth is a very remote city, at over 2,000km from Adelaide and over 3,000km from the east coast, and in...
When will Sydney run out of greenfield land?
.id has undertaken a set of highly detailed population forecast for New South Wales and the ACT over the last 12 months. This work has given us a great insight into some of the...
New South Wales – a population forecasting journey
The pundits enjoy talking about Queensland and Western Australia for their population and employment growth potential, but for sheer scale and size, New South Wales is the winner. We have had the ‘pleasure’ of...
Wanganui’s baby blues
A case study of the impacts of service delivery on population outcomes. Wanganui District Council became the third New Zealand council to take on .id’s community profile, and I recently spent time in this...
Can housing diversity be achieved in new growth areas?
I recently wrote a blog where I made the point that the largest group attracted to greenfield developments in growth areas were younger families with parents typically aged 20-34 years. This prompted queries about...
The Census drove the creation of the modern computer
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. This has never been more true than in the case of the US Census of the late 1800’s, which in many ways set the wheels in...
Scrap the Census? You have to be kidding, right?
I was recently forwarded an article published on the BBC website, which outlined calls by the Conservative Government in the UK to scrap the Census in its current format. The premise of their argument...
Generations X and Y – what’s in a letter?
In a previous article I looked at the baby boomers, those born in the post-war baby boom, and discovered that it actually started well before the end of World War II. This article looks...
Sydney’s population – a story of consolidation
Sydney, Australia’s largest city and oldest European settlement, is also known as Australia’s world city, and the “city of cities”. It is the entry point of most new migrants to Australia, has the busiest...
