Socio-economic indexes for 2009 electoral divisions: 2006 Census

The Census collects data on a broad range of social and economic measures of the Australian population. While it is possible to compare electoral divisions on individual census data items, it is often more useful to compare divisions on the basis of a summary of related social and economic data items. This paper provides data on the four separate summary indexes derived from the 2006 Census of Population and Housing:  Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage,  Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage/Disadvantage,  Index of Economic Resources, and Index of Education and Occupation.  The paper shows each electoral division ranked on the basis of each index. The electoral boundaries used in this paper are the boundaries that will be used in the upcoming federal election. The paper is an updated version of an earlier paper that was based on the 2006 electoral division boundaries. The paper also includes colour coded thematic maps of electoral divisions for each index