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- Home PCs and Employment – A Statistical Link, May, 1995
This research paper was undertaken by DataMaster Australia on behalf of the Ipswich City Council Global Info Links (GIL) Project, a local government-operated Internet service provider. The research specifically sought to identify a link between the incidence of home based computers and the employment outcomes for siblings in households with one or both parents and offspring. The research was significant in that it clearly identified a higher-than-expected incidence of computers in the target household and seriously questioned the validity of the first study of household computers in Australia by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. .The report also identified a clear statistical link between unemployment rates for working-age ofspring in households with or without computers.
- An Analysis of the Labour Market Outcomes of the Esk, Laidley, Gatton and Boonah Shires Industry & Labour Market Database, 1996
This report was based on data collected by DataMaster Australia on behalf of the above Shires. The Report was provided “ex-contract” to DEETYA to demonstrate the ability to identify industry sectors in growth or decline based on employers’ three year time series data. This information provided an opportunity for the appropriate government and NFP agencies to deliver services which would maximise/minimise as appropriate the trend data identified.
- The Career Links Project, 1998
This report analyses employer response to a Fairfield City Council (Sydney) survey of over 4,000 businesses seeking industry support for work placements for students undertaking vocational education courses as part of their Higher School Certificate. The Report identifies significant demand for courses currently offered through public and private secondary schools in the Fairfield District as well as for places for courses not currently available. The Report includes and extrapolates data from a destination survey undertaken by Carol Richardson, NSW Department of Education.
- Economic Development in Rural & Regional Australia – Where do we begin?
This paper was presented to the Rural Australia: Toward 2000 Conference, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga in July, 1997. The paper addresses the need for a standardised data collection and analysis strategy as a foundation for a local or regional economic and employment development strategy and which can be compared with other sites similarly constructed across Australia. The paper refers to the Beaudesert Shire Industry and Labour Market Project completed in 1995, the first fully integrated industry, labour market and input/output analysis database constructed in Australia.
- Tamworth Town Centre Revisited – January, 2005
This paper analyses the three year time series data collected in the Tamworth CBD between 2002 – 2004. The paper identifies the total business mix within the precinct, the growth/decline in business counts by type (ANZSIC Class codes), the vacancy rate trends and the churn rates (a new measure of business mix motility). The annual reports clearly identified the CBD as being in growth mode in nett terms for the period under review and provided the business and general community with irrefutable data on the CBD during an extended drought. Seven other strategic precincts throughout the Tamworth Regional Council area were similarly documented.
- Assessment Strategy in a Global Certification Network
This paper begins to identify the mobility of the international labour market and the difficulties arising for employers, employees and governments in terms of mutual recognition of skills and qualifications. The paper identifies the emergence of international benchmarking and global certification networks arising from the collaboration between the Services SETA of South Africa and Service Skills Australia. The paper challenges the conventional wisdom which suggests that recognition of foreign skills and qualifications are a de facto customs barrier to international trade of labour and services.
- The National Enterprise and Employment Development Strategy (NEEDS), 1993
This paper was presented to The Regional Science Association National Conference in Canberra in 1993 as a policy proposal to governments to adopt a standardised data collection process on which economic and community development can be undertaken. It describes the application of the DataMaster program as an economic development tool in Beaudesert Shire (Queensland). The paper identifies the structure, statistical frameworks and collection methodology and documents some of the uses to which the Beaudesert Shire Office of Economic Development applied the data. The NEEDS document is still relevant and is being implemented in local government areas across eastern Australia today.
- Constraints to Employment in the Ipswich Region – A Study of Employment and Training Issues in Ipswich, Boonah, Esk and Laidley, 1994
DataMaster Australia prepared this report for the Ipswich City Council Education, Training and Employment Module of the Global Info-Links Project. The report analyses data collected from previous research and includes primary data arising from individual and group interviews with employers and job seekers in the Ipswich Region. The research identifies employer and job seeker perceptions of constraints to employment, differentiates metropolitan and rural attitudes and identifies the emergence and impact of internal migration (sea/tree change).
(Document available on request)
- Manufacturing the Future in SW Sydney, 1999
This report identified a critical shortage of trades-qualified staff in the manufacturing sector in Liverpool, Fairfield and Bankstown local government areas. The project also identified employers’ willingness to employ new apprentices and trainees and to actively participate in “clusters” to promote new business and technology adoption. The Report resulted in the construction of a regional manufacturing industry database to facilitate the action component of this report.
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