During the Census conference lots of people showed off the innovative ways that they were using census data to provide unique resources. Two in particular stood out as potentially very useful for ministry.

1. Spot Stats
Aim: To provide easy stats about local areas at the touch of a button ( Read more... )

It's Friday evening, and time to draw our ABS adventures to a close.

Follow the link for one last time...

7307.0 - Wheat Use and Stocks, Australia, October 2009

... and learn about wheat! In October Australia used 1.2 million tonnes of wheat. Cool.

I hope you have found this series of posts enlightening, or even thrilling.

Once again, being out of the office yesterday afternoon meant that I missed my ABS email. Here is the 4th installment, half a day late:

4517.0 - Prisoners in Australia, 2009This link will take you to the ABS media release, which summarises the findings of prisoners in Australia in 2009. You can find teh actual ABS release by clicking on the ' ( Read more... )

I missed my ABS email yesterday afternoon, so number 3 is coming half a day late.

Without any further delay here is

3201.0 - Population by Age and Sex, Australian States and Territories, Jun 2009It's a pretty straightforward collection of numbers, but very facinating. At the end it compares Australia's population age breakdown with some other ( Read more... )

Did you wake up this morning thinking:

"What are some of the main barriers and incentives to labour force participation in Australia?"

If you did, then today is your lucky day, because today the ABS released some fresh new statistics:

6239.0 - Barriers and Incentives to Labour Force Participation, Australia, Jul 2008 to Jun 2009Maybe that sounds ( Read more... )

So, time for another short series of posts. This time it's all thanks to the Australian Bureau of Statistics ( Read more... )

Facts and Stats about my week:

Amount of money spent at the post office: $21.90
Cost of mailing to China: $15.50
Times today people have complimented the ugliest jumper I own: 7
Skipped lectures: 2
Times people have made me read Colossians: 3
Curlywurlys: 4
Hot chocolates: 2
Times listened to Five Iron Frenzy CDs: 7
Number of times I have been ( Read more... )