RESEARCH
Funding: Community Indicators
A new website provides Victorian community groups with a handy reference point to local community wellbeing indicators for each local government area - stats that can be useful in mounting a case for funding and other forms of support.
The Community Indicators Victoria website is a project hosted by the McCaughey Centre at Melbourne University's School of Population Health, and aims to use "local community wellbeing indicators to improve citizen engagement, community planning and policy making".
The site provides statistics - based on data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics - to provide measurements under a variety of categories, including:
- Feeling part of the community;
- Community acceptance of diverse cultures;
- Social support;
- Crime;
- Perception of safety;
- Volunteering;
- Workforce data;
- Education information;
- Transport;
- Work-life balance, and;
- Participation in arts and cultural activities.
Data for each Victorian local government area is featured on the site, and is easily accessed by clicking on maps. To use the site, you must register - though registration is free.
