GLOSSARY

Attractive neighbourhood

Includes neighbourhoods which:

• have less noise/pollution; or
• are safer areas; or
• have attractive tree-lined streets and/or period housing; or
• the person just liked.

Be close to family/friends

Includes people who chose to move to their current area to be close to friends and family that do not belong to the same household. Alternatively, people that moved in with family or friends are included as part of the category 'Moved in with or rented/purchased from family/friends'.

Changed suburb of employment

An employed person may have had a different suburb of employment in the last three years. Alternatively, they may currently travel to work but were previously working from home or without a fixed location. In each of these situations, the person is regarded as having changed their suburb of employment in the last three years.

An employed person may not have changed jobs or employers during this time but would be regarded as having a previous suburb of employment if their workplace was previously located in a different suburb during the last three years. Alternatively, an employed person may have changed jobs or employers during this time but both workplaces were located in the same suburb. Therefore, they would not be regarded as having a previous suburb of employment.

Costs related to housing

Includes moving to the current area for cheaper housing or to realise a capital gain or investment opportunity.

Dwelling

A suite of rooms contained within a building which are self-contained and intended for long term residential use. To be self-contained the suite of rooms must possess cooking and bathing facilities as building fixtures. Non-private dwellings, for example hotels and hospitals, are not within the scope of this survey. Unoccupied private dwellings are not included.

Employed

All persons in scope for this survey who, during the reference week:

• worked for one hour or more for pay, profit, commission or payment in kind in a job or business, or on a farm (comprising employees, employers and own account workers); or
• worked for one hour or more without pay in a family business or on a farm (i.e. contributing family workers); or
• were employees who had a job but were not at work and were:

• away from work for less than four weeks up to the end of the reference week; or
• away from work for more than four weeks up to the end of the reference week and received pay for some or all of the four week period to the end of the reference week; or
• away from work as a standard work or shift arrangement; or
• on strike or locked out; or
• on workers' compensation and expected to return to their job; or
• were employers or own account workers, who had a job, business or farm, but were not at work.

Household

A household is defined as one or more persons, at least one of whom is 15 years and over, usually resident in the same private dwelling.

In most cases, all occupants of a dwelling form a household and contribute to one survey form. Analysis of Labour Force Survey data has shown the incidence of multiple household dwellings to be less than 1%.

Household type

Households are classified solely on the basis of the usual residents of the household. 'Couple only', 'Couple with children' and 'Lone parent' households are one family households that contain no other related or unrelated usual residents. 'Couple with children' and 'Lone parent' households include usual residents of any age that are related as a child or children (whether natural, adopted, step or foster) of the couple or the lone parent.

Labour force

For any group, persons who were employed or unemployed, as defined.

Lifestyle

Includes choosing an area which:

• has proximity to amenities such as restaurants, nightspots, theatres and cultural venues; or
• may be perceived as having a more youthful lifestyle; or
• is closer to beaches, mountains, rural living, rainforests or other environmentally desirable places of living.

Movers

People aged 18 years and over who changed their place of usual residence in New South Wales and Victoria in the last three years (between 5th October 2005 and 5th October 2008).

Non-Movers

People aged 18 years and over who did not change their place of usual residence in New South Wales and Victoria in the last three years (between 5th October 2005 and 5th October 2008).

Not in labour force

Persons who were not in the categories employed or unemployed as defined.

Reasons for moving to the current area in the last three years

This includes reasons for remaining in the current area for people whose previous dwelling was in the same suburb. The interpretation of the term 'area' was left to the respondent. In some households, the usual residents aged 18 years and over have been living together for the last three years and all moved from the same previous dwelling. In these cases, the reasons attributed to any one of them may include reasons of those other household members.

Straight line distance

Calculated by measuring the length of a straight line between the geographical centre of the Census Collection District (CD) in which the person's current dwelling is located, and a central point within the suburb to which they travel for employment. The location of this central point is obtained by calculating an average coordinate (latitude and longitude) for all the existing street addresses within the suburb. This central point is positioned more closely to where the majority of these existing street addresses are located.

Suburb of employment

The suburb to which an employed person usually travels for work. 'Usually' is based on what the employed person does on most work days per week. An employed person that does not have one specific suburb to which they usually travel to start work is regarded as working without a fixed location.

Tenure type

The tenure type is assumed to be the same for all members of the same household. The nature of a household's legal right to occupy the dwelling in which the household members usually reside. Tenure is determined according to whether the household owns the dwelling outright, owns the dwelling but has a mortgage or loan secured against it, is paying rent to live in the dwelling, or has some other arrangement to occupy the dwelling.

Transport typically used from suburb of usual residence to suburb of employment

The transport used, in one direction only, to get to work. The interpretation of what was typical was left to the respondent. It can include an employed person that typically uses multiple forms of transport in the one trip to get to work. Alternatively, it can include an employed person that uses two forms of transport, on different days, with equal frequency to get to work.

Unemployed

All persons in scope for this survey who during the reference week were not employed and:

• had actively looked for full-time or part-time work at any time in the four weeks up to the end of the reference week and were available for work in the reference week; or
• were waiting to start a new job within four weeks from the end of the reference week and could have started in the reference week if the job had been available then.

Without a fixed location

An employed person that does not have one specific suburb to which they usually travel to start work. An example could include an employee, such as a tradesperson, that travels from one customer's home to another to install a particular product and who usually starts their work day by travelling to the first customer's home. In another situation, a travelling salesperson might usually start work by going to their employer's depot or central office to pick up a client list for the day. In this case, they would be regarded as having a fixed location and their suburb of employment would be the suburb in which the depot is located.

Work - better access or prospects

Can include people that chose to move to their current area:

• to be closer to work; or
• be close to opportunities to gain employment; or
• change employment; or
• start a new job; or
• accept re-deployment or transfer in a job; or
• take a promotion; or
• gain a superior or better job; or
• improve employment opportunities for another household member with whom they were living at the time.

Worked from home

An employed person that usually works from home instead of travelling to work.