1383.0.55.001 - Measures of Australia's Progress: Summary Indicators, 2007 (Edition 1)  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 26/04/2007   
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ABOUT THIS PRODUCT

Measures of Australia's Progress (MAP) - Summary Indicators, is part of the suite of Measures of Australia's Progress products produced by the ABS. This suite includes Measures of Australia's Progress (cat.no.1370.0), currently released biennially, with the latest issue being 2006, and Measures of Australia's Progress - At a Glance (cat. no. 1383.0.55.002), a small summary booklet released annually. The MAP products aim to provide a digestible set of statistical evidence to allow Australians to make their own assessment of whether life in Australia is getting better.


Measures of Australia's Progress - Summary Indicators, presents a summary of measures which relate to the 14 headline dimensions of progress presented in MAP. It presents the headline indicators (where a headline indicator is available) at the national level, and a brief summary discussion about the measure and associated trends.



REVISING PAGES ON THE ABS WEB-SITE

As MAP draws on data from a number of different sources, released at different times of the year, it is inevitable that more recent data will become available for the headline indicators at some stage following release of the Summary Indicators product.


While the timing of release has been chosen to allow most of the indicators to be as up to date as possible, there are three data sources which are expected to have new data released in the months following the release of this product, namely the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory 2005, produced by the Australian Greenhouse Office, the ABS Survey of Income and Housing 2005-06, and the ABS Voluntary Work Survey, 2005-06.


To ensure that the MAP Summary Indicators product remains up-to-date, we plan to update the data and text for the following sections after the above data sources become available:

  • Economic hardship
  • Housing - the housing occupancy section
  • Biodiversity - the land clearing section
  • Atmosphere
  • Family, community and social cohesion - voluntary work section.

The intention is to update these sections as indicated in this product.



INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or Josie Barac on Canberra (02) 6252 5414.