Just a quick update from Friday’s post on unemployment by electorate – and for those reading this that haven’t seen the previous post, it’s probably worth having a squiz to know what’s going on.
I’ve redone the maps of Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne regions in a much easier to understand format.
The cross-hatched areas show the regions where the unemployment rate has actually decreased over the period from the 2007 Election through to June 2009. The horizontal lines show the areas where the unemployment rate has increased by between zero and 3% while the vertical lines show the areas where unemployment has increased by 3% or more over the period. First up is Brisbane and Melbourne regions, followed by Sydney and Adelaide.
If anyone wants more regions shown, just give me a yell in comments, as I can easily throw in a link to an image now that I’ve got it all set up in a proper GIS format.
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The Hunter!
Great post, always appreciate your effort.
There’s not much to see
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/files/2009/07/hunter1.png
Yeah, I don’t think many of those Labor seats will be moving, how about Paterson though? Wasn’t it one of the seats with a high proportion of tradies? In addition, it is sitting on only 1.5%.
Paterson has had a change in the unemployment rate of about 0.5% (well, the statistical region that Paterson sits within has, anyway) – which is pretty good considering.
I’m in Barker SA, south of the Murray, west of the Vic border.
If you check the NE borderpoint of Barker [on the Australia map] you will see that all three categories meet at that point.
Barker 0-3%
West Vic employment increased
SW NSW 3+%
Not sure how much can be extrapolated from large area rural electorates such as Barker without local level knowledge.
I’m underemployed and living in Sydney, Aunt Poss.
What do I do?
Just wondering if there are any deeper trends such as capital (and new jobs) following (and lagging) population growth. Hard to tell from one set of results.
Btw, you’d think that tradies would be doing particularly well from Kev the builder?
Perth please
Damian,
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/files/2009/08/perth1.png
Not a lot going on there.
This is all *very* interesting. I would be fascinated to see a visualisation of the impact of unemployment on the so-called “coal seats,” which are pretty evenly divided between NSW and QLD and Liberal and Labor.
Eg
Liberal coal seats
WA
Forrest
NSW
Hume
Macarthur
Calare
Paterson
Parkes
QLD
Maranoa
Groom
ALP coal seats
NSW
Hunter
Charlton
Macquarie
Cunningham
Newcastle
Shortland
Dobell
QLD
Capricornia
Dawson
Flynn
Throsby
Blair
So the rich areas in melbourne have gained the jobs that the workers have lost from the working class areas- no surprises there. Working class gets screwed again. Doesnt say much in favour of our Labour (in name only) government hey poss? Bring back Beasley at least he was a good honest bloke. Keep up the good work.
Sorry about the wait folks, I broke my map.
Elizabeth,
The NSW seats:
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/files/2009/08/nsweliza.png
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/files/2009/08/huntereliza.png
The QLD seats:
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/files/2009/08/qldeliza.png
Silver,
Actually, it get’s a bit more complicated then that. The really wealthy Melbourne areas have been losing jobs quicker than any other part of Victoria.