The Land Airbus – tomorrow’s monorail?
It seems that 30-odd years ago, the monorail was being touted as the solution to urban transport, especially in cities. Monorails popped up around the globe, including Sydney and the Gold Coast. One of...
It seems that 30-odd years ago, the monorail was being touted as the solution to urban transport, especially in cities. Monorails popped up around the globe, including Sydney and the Gold Coast. One of...
Economy.id has now been completely redeveloped with a raft of new functions and features. Each section of economy.id provides information in data tables and graphs with detailed explanations and data sources. Data is presented...
Adelaidians- do you remember riding the Ferris Wheel on top of Cox-Foys – in Rundle Street? (before Rundle Mall!) Or shopping at Moore’s Department Store in Victoria square – which is now the location...
A comprehensive and wide-ranging update is underway for economy.id – and the first stages are now being made available to all profile.id clients to trial for the next twelve months.
At .id we usually present and discuss demographic information about cities, towns, regions and even countries. But there’s a growing population of people who are not even on the ground – those people who...
You know the monkey ladder story, right? It’s essentially a parable about resistance to change, but it actually does have a basis in a psychology experiment. The story varies, but essentially it goes like...
There’s a growing trend around the world (especially since the GFC) to adopt a simpler lifestyle, with less “baggage”. Many people in the developed countries are seeing the benefits of having less financial commitments,...
Melbourne is often described as Australia’s sporting capital, home to iconic events such as the Boxing Day Test, the Australian Tennis Open and the F1 GP, not to mention the home of most of...
As users of the .id tools, you would be used to providing sound, verified information for use in making evidence-based decisions. In doing so you would often come across other commonly held views or...
Two of the main aspects of “money” are a medium of exchange and a measure of value. In Economics, Cliff’s Notes provides a good definition: “providing a common measure of the value of goods...
The Broken Hill City Council recently adopted the use of profile.id and economy.id to explore and understand the changing characteristics of their community and their economy. As with all .id clients, we encouraged them...
.id regards the ABS website as a fantastic resource for raw data pertaining to Australian society. The ABS run one of the most comprehensive and high quality Censuses in the world, so Local Government in Australia...
Since the release of the 2011 Census results we’ve been commenting (and blogging) about the massive population growth in Australia since 2006, particularly in Capital cities and surrounding suburbs. Along with this population growth...
How would you feel if you lost your car keys? Or your laptop? Pretty bad, right? But I bet you’d feel more uncomfortable if you lost your mobile phone. You’d feel suddenly disconnected from...
During October we have continued to build our online training library, with three new videos now available to view.
At .id, we advocate the use of our demographic and economic tools to make evidence based decisions. It’s important to remember that often, this evidence may fly in the face of established “myths” and...
Australia currently has 564 local councils, although with amalgamation on the agenda that number is likely to change. But where was the first council, and when was it established?
Check the link text to the .id resources on your council website. Does it still say it has the “new” data from the 2001 census? We’ve checked and lots do!
It’s true – and apart from being a weird, interesting fact that you can use at your next quiz night, it indicates a much broader issue – an ageing population in a country with...