Comments on: Seat of the Day – Adelaide http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/01/08/seat-of-the-day-%e2%80%93-adelaide/ Politics, elections and piffle plinking Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:16:08 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: The Tally Room » Possum takes on Australia’s electorates http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/01/08/seat-of-the-day-%e2%80%93-adelaide/comment-page-1/#comment-11674 The Tally Room » Possum takes on Australia’s electorates Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:14:02 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/?p=3227#comment-11674 [...] of all 150 Australian House of Representatives electorates. So far he has posted profiles of Adelaide, Aston, Ballarat and Banks. Check it [...]

...] of all 150 Australian House of Representatives electorates. So far he has posted profiles of Adelaide, Aston, Ballarat and Banks. Check it [...

]]> By: Possum http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/01/08/seat-of-the-day-%e2%80%93-adelaide/comment-page-1/#comment-11672 Possum Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:30:11 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/?p=3227#comment-11672 The data for industry employment derives from a crossmatch between the answers households gave on their employment (and their employer) and the data their employer provided to the ABS on their industry type. You can see the rather complicated way it all comes out over here (ABS census definitions) http://tinyurl.com/8yppky So even though there might not be much broad acre farming going on around the CBD of Adelaide, there would be a number of companies with offices there whose primary business is agriculture. The data for industry employment derives from a crossmatch between the answers households gave on their employment (and their employer) and the data their employer provided to the ABS on their industry type. You can see the rather complicated way it all comes out over here (ABS census definitions)

http://tinyurl.com/8yppky

So even though there might not be much broad acre farming going on around the CBD of Adelaide, there would be a number of companies with offices there whose primary business is agriculture.

]]> By: David Richards http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/01/08/seat-of-the-day-%e2%80%93-adelaide/comment-page-1/#comment-11671 David Richards Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:18:46 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/?p=3227#comment-11671 that puzzled me too... only agriculture is the ag dept land just up the road that has a few sheep in from time to time, no fishing unless you count carp in the torrens... and only forestry is the tree lined avenues. Maybe all those garden centre employees? Unless Adelaide is an agforfish Schlafst:adte? that puzzled me too… only agriculture is the ag dept land just up the road that has a few sheep in from time to time, no fishing unless you count carp in the torrens… and only forestry is the tree lined avenues. Maybe all those garden centre employees? Unless Adelaide is an agforfish Schlafst:adte?

]]> By: fredex http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/01/08/seat-of-the-day-%e2%80%93-adelaide/comment-page-1/#comment-11666 fredex Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:46:29 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/?p=3227#comment-11666 I'm surprised that ag/for/fish employed can account for almost 1% of employment in this area. Strange when as far as I know there is none of that in or near [not any more anyway since the demise of market gardens in some adjacent areas] the electorate. Maybe ex-farmers etc retired to the city still describing themselves as such? I’m surprised that ag/for/fish employed can account for almost 1% of employment in this area.
Strange when as far as I know there is none of that in or near [not any more anyway since the demise of market gardens in some adjacent areas] the electorate.
Maybe ex-farmers etc retired to the city still describing themselves as such?

]]> By: Possum http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/01/08/seat-of-the-day-%e2%80%93-adelaide/comment-page-1/#comment-11665 Possum Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:44:29 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/?p=3227#comment-11665 Have now caf. Have now caf.

]]> By: caf http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/01/08/seat-of-the-day-%e2%80%93-adelaide/comment-page-1/#comment-11664 caf Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:01:50 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/?p=3227#comment-11664 Weren't we going to get NESB % as well? Weren’t we going to get NESB % as well?

]]> By: Trevor Cook http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/01/08/seat-of-the-day-%e2%80%93-adelaide/comment-page-1/#comment-11654 Trevor Cook Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:36:41 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/?p=3227#comment-11654 Looking good possum Looking good possum

]]> By: Possum http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/01/08/seat-of-the-day-%e2%80%93-adelaide/comment-page-1/#comment-11651 Possum Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:35:46 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/?p=3227#comment-11651 Ta LO, those charts pretty much tell most of the demographic story of a seat. By the time the next election comes around, I hope to have a few flash widgets running which will let people choose seats and metrics to compare using this data - but that's a way off yet, about 149 seats + 4 weeks off yet :-) Speaking of which, your ideas in the last thread were great, but getting about 12 months ahead of where I'm actually at! The biggish regression models will come, probably panel data using the last few Census and elections and no doubt half a dozen Nerdy Sundays to refine - but that really is a while off yet! Ta LO, those charts pretty much tell most of the demographic story of a seat.

By the time the next election comes around, I hope to have a few flash widgets running which will let people choose seats and metrics to compare using this data – but that’s a way off yet, about 149 seats + 4 weeks off yet :-)

Speaking of which, your ideas in the last thread were great, but getting about 12 months ahead of where I’m actually at! The biggish regression models will come, probably panel data using the last few Census and elections and no doubt half a dozen Nerdy Sundays to refine – but that really is a while off yet!

]]> By: Labor Outsider http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/01/08/seat-of-the-day-%e2%80%93-adelaide/comment-page-1/#comment-11650 Labor Outsider Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:27:12 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/?p=3227#comment-11650 Nice work Possum - fascinating graphs - show pretty clearly the ways in which Adelaide differs from other electorates in SA and Australia - pretty much the typical inner city pattern - mobile, professional population, small proportion of young families but high proportion in 20s and early 30s, wide distribution of income - would be fascinating to compare against the seats of Sydney and Melbourne - my guess is that these same factors would exist but in even more extreme proportions.... Nice work Possum – fascinating graphs – show pretty clearly the ways in which Adelaide differs from other electorates in SA and Australia – pretty much the typical inner city pattern – mobile, professional population, small proportion of young families but high proportion in 20s and early 30s, wide distribution of income – would be fascinating to compare against the seats of Sydney and Melbourne – my guess is that these same factors would exist but in even more extreme proportions….

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