The most disadvantaged LGAs (quintile 1) tend to be in regional and rural areas. The most advantaged Local Government Areas (LGAs) (quintile 5, or top 20%) tend to be clustered around capital cities and selected coastal areas. In this article, the 2016 SEIFA IRSAD scores for all areas have been divided into quintiles, where quintile 1 contains the lowest 20% of scores for the most disadvantaged areas and quintile 5 contains the highest 20% of scores for the most advantaged areas.ĪDVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIAĪdvantaged and disadvantaged areas are spread throughout Australia. It is also possible for there to be pockets of advantage and disadvantage within a single area. For example, it is possible for a relatively advantaged person to reside in an area which may have a low score on some or all of the indexes. It is important to remember that indexes are assigned to geographic areas, not individuals. An area with a low score on this index reflects relatively high levels of socio-economic disadvantage, whilst an area with a high score on this index indicates high levels of advantage. It uses a range of different Census variables including income, education, employment, occupation and housing characteristics. The 2016 SEIFA IRSAD is a general measure of both relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage at the area level. SEIFA are a set of indexes created from summarising the diverse population, family and household characteristics related to socio-economic advantage and disadvantage collected in the Census of Population and Housing, and provide a ranking of areas in Australia. This article will explore how this concept can be analysed using Census data through one of the Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), the Index of Relative Socio-Economic Advantage and Disadvantage (IRSAD).
Socio-economic advantage and disadvantage can be defined as people’s access to material and social resources, and their ability to participate in society. SOCIO-ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE
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