How to Foster and Measure
Social Inclusion
NatStats08
20 November 2008
Melbourne
Professor Fiona Stanley AC
Director Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Chair Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
Australia:
Growing old and growing young
Growing Older
Growing Younger
Australian
population
Australian
Aboriginal
population
Population
(fertility rate)
20,561,00
(1.8)
419,600
(2.15)
Median age
36.6 years
20.5 years
2.95
1.19
Life expectancy
78 years males
83 years females
59 years males
67 years females
Infant mortality
rate
5.3 per 1000
10.6 per 1000
Adult-to child
ratio1
1Persons
aged 18+ for every 0-17 year old
OECD Istanbul Declaration
30 June 2007
EC, OECD, OIC, UN, UNDP, WB, WHO, UNICEF and pother global
organisations
• Measurements of progress go beyond GDP per capita (eg
MDGs)
• Societal welfare (wellbeing) dependent on evidence based and
accountable policy making
• Statistical indicators (social, environmental, economic)
disseminated to citizens enables democracy
• Official statistics are a key ‘public good” to foster progress of
societies.
Examining five discrete roles within a national innovation
system:
Advancing frontier
science and
knowledge
Science intensive
innovation
Technology
intensive
innovation
Creating or
transforming
industries
Knowledge
intensive
innovation
Delivering
incremental
innovation for
industry
Industry oriented
Adapted from CSIRO, Stokes, etc
Solving major
national and
global challenges
Delivering community
solutions
Society oriented
(Public good research and
innovation)
Public Sector Innovation
Our public sector. Making it the world’s best
• A Public Sector Innovation Advocate
• Information flows across
– Government departments
– Companies/ market place
– To engage the public
• Changing the culture to demand and use
evidence base, share data and information innovation KPI’s for departments.
Collaborations for Innovation
Success
National (get our house in order)
• To serve a NATIONAL agenda and to
effectively collaborate internationally
– Encourage and concentrate national capacity for
excellence in research and its use
– National Priority Research Centres focusing on
national challenges (climate change, water,
environment, mental health and Aboriginal MCH)
Collaborations for Innovation
Success
• From Data to Wisdom: National Information
Strategy
– To share all research and agency data
– Use and re-use scientific information
– Protect and make available all data assets
(research, Govt data, universities, institutes
including Indigenous)
– Innovative methods to access and use (eg. spatial
analysis, privacy)
– International best practice
Data to Wisdom
Our Vision
Australia is managing increasing volumes and complexity of data to
enhance our country’s scientific, economic and social prosperity and
to protect it from threats
Wisdom
Wisdom
Knowledge
Knowledge
Information
Information
Data
Data
ARACY Report Card
AEDI
• A national performance information framework
• Australian Early Development Index $15.9 million
over 4 years
• National Census 2009
• Provides governments and communities with an
understanding of the school readiness of young
children entering their first year of formal schooling
• Based on 5 domains – health, social, emotional,
communication and cognition
• Will assist targeting interventions to improve
development of children in a community
Source: Dept of Education, Employment & Workplace Relations
Australian Early Development Index
Communities 2004 - 07
Maternal and Child Health Research
Database 1980-2003
Midwives
Census GIS
code
Birth
Registrations
Birth
Linkage
Birth Defects
Registry
Cerebral Palsy
Register
Sibships
Mental health
Register
Death
Registrations
Cohort Studies
Twins Register
Child Health Surveys
All Hospitalisations
0 - 18 years
Linkage
HEALTH DATA
Birth
Registrations
1980 - 2005
Midwives’
Notifications
1980 - 2005
Hospital
Morbidity
1970-2005
Mental Health
Clients
1970- 2005
Master Links
File
CHILD
PROTECTION
DATA
Child protection
Notifications
1990 - 2005
Substantiated
Allegations
1990 - 2005
Periods of Care
1990-2005
Source: O’Donnell 2008
Linkage
HEALTH DATA
Birth
Registrations
1990 - 1997
EDUCATIONAL
DATA
Master Links
File
Midwives’
Notifications
1990-1997
WALNA
1999-2005
SOCIAL DATA
(neighbourhood
characteristics)
ABS Census
1990, 1996, 2001
Source: Malacova et al, Am. J. Epi. 2008
“There can be no keener revelation
of a society’s soul than the
way in which it treats its children.”
Nelson Mandela