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PROGRESS TOWARDS A QUEENSLAND HUMAN CAPITAL INDICATORS PROJECT

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PROGRESS TOWARDS A QUEENSLAND HUMAN CAPITAL INDICATORS PROJECT
human capital : data sharing : open innovation roundtable

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The 2007 Eidos data sharing roundtable follows the successful Eidos data sharing roundtable held in 2006 and will include presentations by the Minister for Education, Training and the Arts, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) , Australian Bureau of Statistics and Creative Commons.


Speakers:		Tim Barker, Assistant Government Statistician, Office of Economic and Statistical Research, Queensland; Walter Robb, Chief Statistician, Eidos Institute; Robert Tanton, Research Fellow, National Centre for Economic and Social Modelling; Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Head of School of Law, Queensland University of Technology and others
Date:		Tuesday 8 May 2007
Time:		8.30am for 8.45am start - 8.45am
Venue:		Premier's Room, Parliament House, Brisbane, QUEENSLAND
Cost:		$100 members $200 non-members
Contact:		Sharon Parkes, Institute Manager
Parking		QUT Gardens Point Carpark

Hear the thoughts and discussions of more than twenty invited policy and research leaders including:

* Honourable Rod Welford, Minister for Education, Training and the Arts
* Kim Bannikoff, Director, Queensland Studies Authority
* Michael Hogan, Assistant-Director General, Department of Communities
* Tim Barker, Assistant Government Statistician, Office of Economic and Statistical Research, Queensland
* Professor Colin Power, Board Member, Eidos Institute
* Professor Bruce Muirhead, CEO, Eidos Institute
* Walter Robb, Chief Statistician, Eidos Institute
* David Martyn, Director,State Statistical Services, Australian Bureau of Statistics
* Rick Williams, Manager, Research & Planning Unit, Queensland Department of Communities
* Professor Nita Temmerman, Dean, Faculty of Education, USQ
* Professor Robyn Zevenbergen, Director, Griffith Institute for Educational Research
* Professor Nola Alloway, Dean and Head of Education, James Cook University
* Mr Robert Tanton, Research Fellow, National Centre for Economic and Social Modelling
* Neil Hooper, Principal Lawyer, Office of Economic and Statistical Research, Queensland
* Dr Gabrielle Matters, Principal Research Fellow, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
* Jeff Hunt,Director, Performance Measurement and Review Branch, Department of Education, Training and the Arts
* Bonnie Hampson, Research Fellow, Office of Economic and Statistical Research, Queensland
* Professor Annette Patterson, Australian Association of Research in Education
* Dr Margaret Brechman-Toussaint, Dept. of Education, Training and the Arts.
* Dr Rob Simons, National Manager, Strategic Research and Social Policy The Smith Family
* Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Head of School of Law, Queensland University of Technology
* Professor Brian Head, Chief Executive Officer, The Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth
* Greg Pole, Assistant Government Statistician, Office of Economic and Statistical Research, Queensland
* Associate Professor, Geoff Woolcock, Griffith University
* Sue Ferguson, Department of Education, Training and the Arts
* Lea Giles-Peters, Queensland State Librarian
* Collette Brennan, Director, The Edge
* Tory Jones, Executive Manager, Millennium Library Project

Background

Definitions of Human Capital vary in their focus. Most are clear that it is people and their ability to be economically productive. Many also highlight the strong dependence on education and training to build capability and on health and other incentives to increase the application of this capability in productive work. It sits in a broader context with physical and financial capital, and influenced by both the physical and social environments. Human capital is now on the international and National agenda as evidenced by the Second OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy which has attracted world leaders and in COAGs National Reform Agenda which has recently announced agreement to a number of significant actions in the area of human capital. Eidos partners are leaders in the ongoing development of human capital. The roundtable will build on initiatives to progress the capability to measure human capital and its determinants, in a way that supports evidence-based social, economic and environmental policy decisions. In 2007 Eidos will utilise keynote presentations and an innovative fishbowl method that will involve invited experts engaging in an inner circle roundtable discussion while surrounded by registered participants in an outer circle Two seats in the inner table will be dedicated to registered participants to rotate through.

Following the 2006 National Roundtable a number of broad areas of research and policy collaboration for informing key state and national human capital research and policy aspects have been identified.

Coordination of research and data sources
Knowledge management
Research prioritisation
Partnerships
Conceptualising and researching human capital issues

The 2007 EIDOS roundtable takes forward some of the future scenarios thinking from the last 12 months, in particular, the development and provision of access to shared research resources, and providing an opportunity to test the principles of research-informed policy in an area which is of concern to governments in Australia and overseas.

Roundtable Objectives

Progress towards a Queensland Human Capital Indicators Project including::
Investigate the benefits of a conceptual framework for the measurement of human capital, its determinants and impacts. This will provide a hierarchy of indicators for human capital and help determine which investments and research programs support future scenarios.
Explore the questions and issues behind the commitment to research-informed policy and data sharing.
Use human capital as the focus, to establish guidelines of good practice and research-informed policy making, including mechanisms for sharing of data.
General concensus on a way forward regarding the design and implementation of a joint Human Capital indicators project.
Plan a visual documentary of the days outcomes.

Themes

Individuals with recognised expertise in relation to human capital, statistics, policy development, knowledge management and research data sharing from a wide range of organizations and disciplines will be invited to assess the current evidence base for human capital and education policies and practical strategies for data sharing and forecasting strategies based on this analysis.

Workshop Process

In 2007 Eidos will utilise the EIDOS fishbowl method an innovative process where invited expert participants will engage in an inner circle roundtable discussion while surrounded by registered participants observing from an outer circle. In order to facilitate interaction between the inner and outer circles, two seats are dedicated to registered participants to rotate through and engage in the inner circle roundtable. Eidos Creative will record to proceedings of the workshop. Publication of beta video summaries of the 2006 workshop have been published on EidosTV
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Eidos National Workshop

Workshop Program

8 May 2007

8.45 am 9:00 am Welcome and overview of workshop Professor Bruce Muirhead, Executive Director, Eidos

9:00am 9:30am Opening Plenary Recount the issues, challenges and opportunities of the past 12 months in relation to human capital, statistics, policy development, knowledge management and research data sharing. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Tim Barker, OESR and Associate Professor Juhani Tuovinen, USC

Dave Martyn is the Director of Statistical Services and Household Surveys in the Qld Office of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) where he is responsible for managing the Qld component of the ABS household survey program, the National Ageing Statistics Unit (an analytical unit looking at the economic and social impacts of the ageing of the population), and for local advancement of the ABS major strategic initiative, the National Statistical Service. Dave has 33 years practical statistical experience in a wide range of data collection and data management activities with the ABS and, more recently, Statistics New Zealand, where he was responsible for managing the field operations for the 2006 Population Census.

Tim Barker, Assistant Government Statistician in the Queensland Treasury is responsible for information coordination, strategy, publication and communication for the Office of Economic and Statistical Research. Tim is also the Director of the Queensland Spatial Information Office, responsible for implementing key spatial information projects in Queensland as directed by QSIC. Starting as a surveyor's chainman in outback Queensland, Tim has over 25 years experience in all sectors of the spatial information industry. Tim has a Bachelor of Applied Science (QIT) and Master of Science in Engineering (UNB) and is currently studying towards a PhD at the Queensland University of Technology, where he has also lectured for 15 years. Tim is the immediate past president of AURISA and is currently the Spatial Information Commissioner and President Elect of the Spatial Sciences Institute. Tim was named APSEA Spatial Professional of the Year in 2004.]

A/Prof. Juhani TuovinenA/Prof. Juhani Tuovinen is an experienced researcher in education. He is currently the chief investigator in an international ARC Discovery and in an ARC Linkage research project. He is also an associate researcher on an ARC Linkage research project with seven partner institutions. Recently he concluded a major two state evaluation of multi-million dollar satellite-education innovation in NT and NSW using a combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses. Previously he participated in research into the teaching of ICT in all Australian Universities on behalf of the Australian Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs. He is currently the project leader on two collaborative EIDOS research projects. He is concerned with bringing evidence-based research to bear on innovative educational developments, conducting educational evaluations and ensuring that educational programs are based on the best educational and pragmatic considerations.

9.30am-10:30am Morning Session One: Discussion on Human Capital
Chair: A/Prof. juhani Tuovinen, and Prof. Bruce Muirhead, Eidos CEO
Prioritising the human capital agenda: directions of influence
What do we need to consider to build an evidence base, knowledge management and dissemination in human capital
What partnerships will be needed - collaboration between the research, policy and practice sectors
Sharing data: opportunities, challenges and advice

10.30am-11:00 am Morning Tea

11:00-11:45am Morning Session Two: Progress towards a Queensland Human Capital Indicators Project
Speaker: Walter Robb, Chief Statistician, Eidos Institute. Walter holds degrees in mathematics and statistics, and is an accredited statistician. He has over 30 years success in the management and use of information, including: survey and administrative collections and dissemination, for accountability and policy development; planning models, for resource allocation for health, education and criminal justice services; performance measurement, for services and evaluation of programs; information policy and governance, for better return on investment. He has significant experience in education, health and criminal justice statistics. Walter Robb has made a major contribution to the development of several national and State statistical collections and systems. Walter was executive Director responsible for IT Governance in Queensland Health from 2006-06. Prior to this he was the Deputy Queensland Government Statistician. He is able to talk about the meaning behind the numbers, about people and about the impact of new Government policies on households or businesses. Statistics, he said, were the key to quantifying changes in society, making historical comparisons and planning for the future. Walter is responsible for securing commercial clients for Queensland Treasury's Office of Economic and Statistical Research. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Applied Science (mathematics) from QIT in 1975, Walter has specialised in statistics.

11:45am-12:30 pm Facilitated discussion/working groups
Chairs: Prof. Bruce Muirhead & A/Prof. Juhani Tuovinen
Feedback and summary of key issues, questions and actions points

12.30pm-02.00pm: Roundtable Lunch: Intellectual Property and Data-Sharing Innovation
Speaker: Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Head of School of Law, Queensland University of Technology. Brian holds postgraduate law degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He is co-editor of one of Australia's leading texts on E-Commerce, Software and the Internet - Going Digital 2000 - and has published articles on Law and the Internet, Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law in Australia, the United States, Europe and Japan. Over the past two years Brian has delivered seminars on information technology and intellectual property law in Australia, New Zealand, China, USA, Canada, Norway and the Netherlands. In October 1999 Brian delivered the Seventh Annual Tenzer Lecture - Software as Discourse: The Power of Intellectual Property in Digital Architecture - at Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University in New York. In October 2000 he was invited as a part of the Distinguished Speaker series hosted by the Ontario wide Centre for Innovation Law and Policy to deliver an address on Digital Property at the University of Western Ontario Law School in London, Canada. During the first half of 2001 he was a Visiting Professor at Santa Clara University Law School in Silicon Valley USA, teaching a seminar on Digital Property (external link). In March 2001 he convened a forum on "Innovation, Software, and Reverse Engineering: Technological and Legal Issues" and in June 2001 organised a seminar on "Legal and Business Issues Relating to Open Source Software" both held at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley. From 1998-2001 Brian was Head of the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University in NSW.

2:00pm 2:30pm First Afternoon Session: Economic and Social Modelling and Data-sharing
Speaker Robert Tanton, Principal Research Fellow, National Centre for Economic and Social Modelling.Robert Tanton joined NATSEM in 2005. He previously worked in the Australian Public Service, with five years at the Department of Finance researching and modelling staffing statistics; five years at the Commonwealth Grants Commission modelling police expenditure; and six years at the Australian Bureau of Statistics modelling crime rates and calculating the ABS SEIFA indexes. Robert's main research interest is social exclusion, disadvantage and poverty. His projects at NATSEM include housing, regional disadvantage, and social exclusion. Robert has a Masters in Philosophy (Statistics) from the ANU, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Wollongong.

2:30-3:00pm Afternoon tea

3:00-4:00 Next steps progress forward. Input from the Roundtable.
A/Prof. Juhani Tuovinen, Tim Barker and Dave Martyn

Partner Sponsors

Australian Catholic University
Central Queensland University
Griffith University
James Cook University
Queensland University of Technology
University of Southern Queensland
University of the Sunshine Coast

Eidos appoints Chief Statistician

Walter Robb has been appointed as the Eidos Chief Statistician. Walter holds degrees in mathematics and statistics, and is an accredited statistician. He has over 30 years success in the management and use of information, including: survey and administrative collections and dissemination, for accountability and policy development; planning models, for resource allocation for health, education and criminal justice services; performance measurement, for services and evaluation of programs; information policy and governance, for better return on investment. He has significant experience in education, health and criminal justice statistics. Walter has made a major contribution to the development of several national and State statistical collections and systems. He was Executive Director responsible for IT Governance in Queensland Health from 2006-06. Prior to this he was the Deputy Queensland Government Statistician. He is able to talk about the meaning behind the numbers, about people and about the impact of new Government policies on households and businesses. Statistics, he says, are the key to quantifying changes in society, making historical comparisons and planning for the future. Walter was responsible for securing commercial clients for Queensland Treasury's Office of Economic and Statistical Research. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Applied Science (mathematics) from QIT in 1975, Walter has specialised in statistics. Walters role at Eidos encompases expert leadership on projects with significant statistical requirements.

http://www.eidos.org.au/news/results.chtml?filename_num=147459

Wellbeing Indicators National Workshops

Friday, September 1, 2006
9.30am 11.30am (followed by lunch)
Birdsville Room, Level 1, 61 Mary St., Brisbane

The Department of Communities hosted the Wellbeing Indicators workshop in Brisbane on Friday, September 1, 2006.

From 30th August to 9th September 2006, three Victorian universities (Victoria, Melbourne and Swinburne) which work together on the Victorian Community Indicators Project (VCIP), together with the ABS, will host the visit of Mr Alton Hollett and Professor Doug May - the two distinguished developers of the Community Accounts system of the Newfoundland Labrador Statistics Agency (NLSA) in Canada. Alton is the Director of NLSA and Doug is Professor in Statistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

In this time, state workshops around Australia are being conducted, and the ABS is hosting a national 2 day workshop on community indicators in Melbourne (5-6 September). The workshops will showcase the work of the NLSA, and also examine the wider context in which indicators of progress and well-being have become increasingly important in policy, planning, community building and democracy.

Preceding a more public lunchtime presentation on the NLSA (attached), the Brisbane workshop will include representatives from state government human services agencies, the state ABS office, local governments, universities and research organisations, and non-government and community organisation representatives with a particular interest in wellbeing measures.

The outline for the workshop program will be as follows:

a. Overview on context and other national and international developments (featuring Prof Mike Salvaris, Victoria University).

b. Presentation by Alton Hollett and Doug May (main session)

c. Report from agencies as to their work in well-being indicators and planning etc.

d. Discussion on local and community level indicator/planning work, including from local governments and Council of social service representatives.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has developed in the past few years an international leadership role in co-ordinating, research and support for progress and wellbeing indicator models, especially through its new global project, Measuring the Progress of Nations . At the OECDs international conference at Milan in June 2006, a proposal for an international collaboration to develop a national model progress and wellbeing framework or index was initiated; it will involve Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Bhutan and Sweden and possibly other countries, and be based on Canadas world-leading project, the Canadian Index of Wellbeing.
The Canadian Index of Wellbeing has been significantly influenced by the Newfoundland Labrador Statistics Agency (NLSA) Community Accounts, a world leading model of a multi-level (state/regional, local and neighbourhood) progress and wellbeing indicator system. It was developed from 1996 onwards as an integral part of provincial and community planning, with continuous input from users and local communities. The Community Accounts website is an outstanding example of how wellbeing and progress data can be made accessible not just to policymakers but ordinary community members, by a combination of innovative design and a practical user focus. It includes do-it-yourself tutorials, backed by a powerful community education and support program run by the NLSA across the province; great visual displays; and new web tools which allow users to perform different tasks like: comparing all major well-being areas (economic, social, environmental and governance) across the province and down to local and neighbourhood levels, custom building a statistical summary of their neighbourhood or a broad index of wellbeing, and identifying at risk communities.
The Community Accounts (CA) system stores data by geography and data topic within eleven interrelated domains or accounts. All data is available free and without restriction to public and government users alike, and includes statistics from state and administrative agencies normally not publicly or easily available, viewable through a common portal. The capacity to cross check data against factors such as income, employment, social status, education, health, and the physical environment, allows needs identification, planning, monitoring, research, and evaluation of the factors that influence the Provinces economic and social landscape and sustain communities and regions within the province. As a result, the CA also provides a major analytical framework for understanding the factors underlying successful social, economic and environmental development of communities, regions and the province for both the Provincial Government and stakeholder groups such as communities, community agencies and citizens.
The CA has a high profile within Newfoundland and Labrador, and Canada generally, winning numerous local and national awards, and last year, was nominated for the UN Public Service Award. Alton Hollett and Doug May are experienced and entertaining presenters, and will give a vivid and practical big screen demonstration of CA in action.

Wellbeing Indicators Workshop

Background

Currently, education and social research and policy in Queensland is not well-integrated, and there is no mechanism for positioning the States various centres of expertise to address and take advantage of the current and future developments and challenges. This situation is not unique to Queensland, nor is it confined to education and social research. Rather, the task of better organising and sharing knowledge, expertise and data is one being faced by governments and universities in other parts of the world. (Felt et al., 2004; Savan, 2004; Auriat,1998).

Ways forward are being sought through the implementation of strategies aimed at developing research capacities across the higher education, government, industry and community sectors and between disciplines. For example, a significant problem facing the higher education sector is one of linking university students and faculty to the community and policy sectors through applied, policy-relevant research (Wenger, 1998). Traditional science models and higher education structures are ill-equipped to enable the type of cross-sector, interdisciplinary collaboration necessary for community-based research and knowledge application. Therefore, new partnerships between research, community, and policy are required to achieve community-directed research and development. These partnerships can achieve a range of research, policy, education and action outcomes arising from quality engagements developed over time.

In order to develop these strategies necessary for building research capacity and promote their implementation it is necessary to take stock of the research skills, projects, and partnerships that currently characterise the landscape in Queensland. This knowledge will provide a strong basis for the development of realistic strategies for integrating and positioning education and social research so that it can deliver better teaching, learning, research and policy outcomes for universities, schools, communities and government and non-government stakeholders.

Co-operative research has become increasingly important, as evidenced by Australias higher education policy environment: the ascendancy of interdisciplinarity calls for new modes of research and research management (Marginson & Considine, 2000), while the Australian Research Council funds collective research, in the form of ARC Linkage grants, as well as the networks that enable such research to occur (ARC, 2005).

Eidos has been established and funded by the Queensland niversity and public sector. The purpose was to develop a facilitative and cooperative joint venture which would seek to build the research and policy capacity and then position and profile this research and policy. As a consortium of research collaborators, Eidos seeks to develop new ways of conceptualizing and performing collaborative cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary research and draws out the depth of research capacity and expertise available.

Complete, Current and Future Events

Research Community Building Review
14 February, 2005

Desktop analysis and review of relevant literature concerning efforts to build research capacity were undertaken. There already existed some documentation of processes that have been conducted overseas to develop strategies to build research capacity in education (e.g., Educational Research Funders Forum, 2003) and the social sciences (e.g., Royal Society of New Zealand, 2003).

Eidos Research Congress
17 May, 2005

A research planning meeting, Research Congress, where groups of key researchers and policy makers grouped within the themes of (1) Community and Sustainability, (2) Creative Media and Communication, and (3) Transitions and Lifecourse discussed the following questions:

What are the important research and policy issues currently in your areas of education and /or social science
Where in Queensland is research being done that addresses these issues, and what does this research tell us?
What areas of education and social research do we need to more of?
What type of evidence/knowledge do you believe is likely to be of most value in the policy sector?

What are some strategies for supporting this research? (e.g. what infrastructure would help to build capacity?)

Public Lecture
20 October, 2005

All Eidos staff were invited to bring along industry colleagues, invite students, friends and friends to attend the 2005 Griffith Lecture on Thursday, October 20, 2005. Professor Fiona Stanley AC delivered the lecture at the Queensland Conservatorium, South Bank campus. The lecture was titled "Data for a Civil Society: How We Can Harmonise Privacy and Use Population Data for Public Good" and was a topical exploration of the conundrum between moral obligations to use record-linked data for social good, and public perceptions about protection of privacy.

Eidos Mapping and Scopping Research Strengths and Data Sources
November 2005 - February 2006

An Eidos and James Cook University partnership is developing:

Detailed knowledge of the current education and social research capacity in Queensland

Contact details of cooperative leaders and members with justification around expertise and output

Recommendations for developing strategies for collaboration and synergies in education and social research in Queensland
for presentation at the 2006 Research Congress.

Research Congress 2006 and Eidos Cooperatives Launch
14-16 February, 2006

Eidos + Congress is an annual two-day event bringing together researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and politicians to share knowledge, aspirations and concerns. The Congress also invites participation from internationally-recognised organisations. The event is modelled on the successful "Science Meets Parliament" project.

The first day of the Congress involves workshops for participants to develop strategies for communicating with parliamentarians, government agencies and the media. The second day consists of face-to-face meetings amongst researchers, parliamentarians, the educational media, international guests and senior departmental officers.

Eidos National Workshop
Data-Sharing and Research-informed policy and practice: What's needed in education and training? 21 February, 2006

Pragmatic Outcomes from the Data-Sharing Workshop (February 2006)
See photographs of Workshop participants

RELEVANT DATASETS

1. Early Years

2. Learning and Earning Transitions

3. Assessment

Datasets, expertise etc your network/agency willing to make accessible and share.

Australian Bureau of Statistics

(i) Early Years. The National Centre for Education and Training (NCETS) is working closely with its ABS colleagues in the National Centre for Early Childhood, based in Perth, the aim is to ensure that pre-school education and learning is an integral part of any data collection and survey work that is undertaken.

(ii) Learning and Earning Transitions. NCETS has been working with state/territory education departments to develop an alternate suite of measures to the currently used Apparent Retention Rates (ARRs). The aim of this work is to lead the debate regarding participation pathways outcomes of post-compulsory school education. ABS considers the success of government policies in creating new pathways has blurred the boundaries between the School and VET sectors. The transition relation work would be greatly enhanced by the introduction of a Unique Student Identifier (USI) that children would carry from pre-school education through until their mid 20s.

Datasets, etc. ABS allows for secondary data analysis of the Census of Population and Housing (through a 1% sample) and surveys such as the Survey of Education and Work and the Survey of Education and Training, through the production of Confidentialised Unit Record Files (CURFs).

Standards - ABS would be happy to be involved in discussions etc regarding the need for Eidos sponsored research to meet national standards in terms of the definitions and parameters used in reporting on research and outcomes. Driving consistency and comparability of data are critical ABS issues.

Methodology issues ABS has the expertise to advise Eidos partners on ways of confidentialising data in order to ensure information that might uniquely identify an individual, determining restrictions on how data is to be used.

Labour Market Research / DET

- Queensland Young Adult Longitudinal Study (QYALS)
- Australian Vocational Education Training Management Information System (AVETMISS) potential to access de-identified unit record information on all students in the publicly funded VET system in Queensland.
- DELTA apprentice and traineeship database.
- SOS Student Outcome Survey unit record information collected by NCVER.

OESR can provide a list of metadata records for data sets from within the Queensland Government. To be provided following this session (Jenny Bopp).

LSAY, PISA, TIMSS Contact is Sam Rothman and others ACER (G Matters)

Australian College of Educators has studies of Australian Teachers across 1963, 1979, 1989, 1999 of their characteristics, qualifications, life experiences, professional development, community and professional association memberships. Will undertake this study again in 2009.

Delfin Lend Lease is now collecting household composition demographic data in its larger outer suburban projects (Springfield Lakes, Caroline Springs and Pakenham in Vic) to cover the inter-censul period. Data collected in 2005 should be available this quarter. Contact: Tim Eltham 0408 803 625.

The Smith Family can provide the following:

(1) Access to data through four waves of researcher in the School to Work transition re our Learning for Life cohort? If students from Yrs 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.
(2) Access to data currently being collected as part of our Lets Read program development in 22 communities.
(3) Access to data collected on a 5 yrs demonstration project for enhanced educational participation of Indigenous secondary students.
(4) Access to data collected in (approx) 85 community technology learning centres.
(5) Access to data currently being collected from 7 Communities for Children sites.

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Community Indicators Workshop Agenda