1504.0 - Methodological News, Sep 2007  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 21/09/2007   
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Australian Economic Indicators Increases Web Presence

The Australia Economic Indicators (AEI) area has expanded its product range with the release of the Key National Indicators dashboards in August 2007. Dashboards are a series of short graphical representations that are designed to work like a vehicle dashboard ie. give the user a quick summary of how things are going. The AEI team worked in conjunction with Web Publishing in order to develop this product as a "proof of concept" and will take responsibility for updating the product on a daily basis as new data is released.

With web content being a major part of the Australian Bureau of Statistics output and reporting, the AEI area has shown leadership with this product, as a properly composed graphical summary is able to impart information more quickly than a series of tables. The development of the product took several months of work involving extensive contact and consultation with subject matter areas until consensus was reached as to the style, format and time series to be shown in the dashboards.

Web users can also now access data cubes of full length time series for all tables in AEI (cat. no. 1350.0). The full set of data cubes has been available since the May 2007 issue and this means that AEI will no longer publish the traditional "long time series" edition each February.

Feedback on the Key National Indicators dashboard is invited and any comments or suggestions should be provided to Jo Jackson on (02) 6252 6114