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WESTIR Ltd analyses data from the Australian Census of Population and Housing for Greater Western Sydney.
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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 -
Population & Demographics
Population growth patterns in Greater Western Sydney (GWS) have been inconsistent.Read more -
LGBTIQ & The Census
Have you ever wondered how information on Australia’s LGBTIQ populations is collected? This paper provides an overview of the different data sour...Read more -
Indigenous Communities
Blacktown LGA had the largest Indigenous population (8,200 persons) in GWS and Greater Sydney region.Read more -
Housing
The housing landscape of Greater Western Sydney is constantly evolving.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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
CENSUS 2011 – 2ND RELEASE OF DATA
The second major set of data from the 2011 Census was released at the end of October. This release contains information for all geographies [includ...Read more