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WESTIR Ltd analyses data from the Australian Census of Population and Housing for Greater Western Sydney.
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Population & Demographics
Population growth patterns in Greater Western Sydney (GWS) have been inconsistent.Read more -
Family & Household Composition
The makeup of households and families has been gradually changing over time with smaller household sizes, more lone parent families, more lone pers...Read more -
Indigenous Communities
Blacktown LGA had the largest Indigenous population (8,200 persons) in GWS and Greater Sydney region.Read more -
Income
According to the ABS (2011) income is a combination of all receipts received by the household or by individual members of the household.Read more -
Estimating Homelessness in Greater Western Sydney
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) undertakes the Census of Population and Housing every five years to count all persons in Australia on Cen...Read more -
Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in GWS
In 2011; 1,140,706 persons in Greater Western Sydney (GWS) indicated being born in Australia. Another 782,989 persons, meanwhile, indicated being b...Read more -
Detention Centres and the Census [about how folks in detention centres are counted in the Census]
We at WESTIR are generally a curious lot and one of our musings was how the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) counts asylum seekers held in det...Read more -
Housing
The housing landscape of Greater Western Sydney is constantly evolving.Read more -
Socio-Economic Indexes For Areas (SEIFA) 2011
The aim of this paper is to explain what SEIFA is and how it is constructed. This is followed by a short commentary related to a series of maps of ...Read more -
Basics of SEIFA
SEIFA stands for Socio-economic Indexes for Areas. SEIFA has been designed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to measure the socioeconom...Read more