1395.0 - Essential Statistical Assets for Australia, 2014  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 12/12/2014   
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STATISTIC ASSESSMENT RESULTS BY PILLAR AND ESA DIMENSION
The ESA list is organised into three pillars: society, economy and environment statistics. Proportionally, there were more statistics with amber or red traffic lights which informed the environment pillar than the economy or society pillar.

    • 27% of statistics informing the environment pillar had an amber or red overall traffic light (one statistic with a red overall traffic light and two statistics with an amber overall traffic light),
    • 10% of statistics informing the economy pillar had an amber overall traffic light (four statistics with an amber overall traffic light), and
    • 6% of statistics informing the society pillar had an amber overall traffic light (two statistics with an amber overall traffic light).

One statistic with an amber traffic light informed both the economy and society dimensions.

The pillars of the ESA list are further divided into ESA dimensions (not to be confused with quality dimensions) which focus on a particular topic. Of the ten ESA dimensions informed by the eight statistics with red and amber overall traffic lights, there were three ESA dimensions which were represented more than once:
    • household economic wellbeing (three statistics with an amber overall traffic light),
    • housing (two statistics with an amber overall traffic light), and
    • inflation (two statistics with an amber overall traffic light.

The other ESA dimensions informed by statistics with red or amber over traffic lights included: atmosphere, waste, productivity, family, social cohesion, transport and land.