State Indicator Frameworks Mini Workshop
19 November 2008
ABS Victorian Office Melbourne
Speaking Points
Tasmania Together – What is It?
Community based vision for 2020
A measurement system - how is Tasmania going
12 goals, 143 benchmarks (196 measures of progress), 12 headline indicators
34 post five year review tasks
Framework for decision making
Progress Board – independent statutory authority
Tasmania Together – What Works Well
Long term framework – beyond the electoral cycle
Independence of the Board from government
Rigorous reporting system – OBR, Progress Report
Five year reviews - keeps TT relevant
Linkages to government decision making/political support
ABS involvement and support
Indicators
Based on community priorities
Regularly monitored and published
Broad range of indicators / 7 years of data
Tasmania Together – Biggest Frustrations
Community awareness and engagement
Front end decision making
Integration into the budget process
Indicators
Availability of good sub-state level data
- Help engage the community
- Local government level. Local level data project.
- Problems with sectors of the community aged, disability,
Aboriginal
Obtaining qualitative or attitudinal data
- Community survey – quality of life, social inclusion, perceptions
of govt accountability, belong to local community
Data availability often lags behind community priorities
- 34 post five year review tasks
- Climate change, energy and water managment
National surveys – sample size can often be too small to be useful to smaller
states.
- Need more oversampling
Timeliness of data
- GSS from 4 to 6 years
- Adult literacy - every 10 years
Tasmania Together – Where Would Like Assistance
A greater focus on provision of sub-state level data
COAG – agreed common definitions/approaches at the COAG level would lead
to improve interstate comparisons being made. 14 of TT benchmarks involve
interstate comparisons.
NSS – common definitions and sharing of data
- Increase availability of data
- Expand pool of providers
- Problem in state agencies and between local and state
government.
More oversampling of smaller states to provide meaningful information
Improving communication/information flows
- Sharing and disseminating information – Northern
Development/OYA, TT/SIU
- Better networking
Community engagement
- How do we make data/statistics understood and accessible to
the broader public
- How do we show linkages between data and decision making
- How do we promote evidence based policy development.