Where is the economy growing / shrinking? #AU

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has recently provided me with a dataset to examine innovation in Australia. I am interested in economic activity over time and by location. Previously the ATO has provided corporate data, but companies are seen only as Australian, and not having a point or multi-point location. Employees however have an address which provides a point location.

Thus the ATO has kindly provided all the salaries and wages data (for 12 years), and sole trader data, by fine detailed industry and location. Sole Trader's have 500 industries and employees have 1500 occupations. Australian locations, while requested at postcode level, were provided at a statistical area level (SA4) which splits Australia into 100 regions of similar population. Cities have many zones, while the country has large zones.

See my request for the data here.

The resulting dataset has two tables:

• Sole Traders (100,000 rows) 2014 $96B, 2002 $61B.
• Salary and Wages (200,000 rows) 2014 $584B, 2002 $285B.

The raw data is available here at data.gov.  I have loaded the data into an online database at Nectar, which provides free cloud services for Australian Researchers. Preliminary analysis is taking place at a website set up for that purpose here. For SELECT access to the database please contact me.

Data Visualisation of the Industries of Sole Traders.

See details including rollover to get names of each bubble here.

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A Data Visualisation of growth by SA4 region

Figure 1: Growth by SA4 region (2006, 2010, 2014). Data

Data Citation: Ferrers, R., Australian Tax Office; AURIN (2016): Where are Australian jobs growing or shrinking (2002 - 2014; over 100 regions; SA4)?. figshare. Online at: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4056282.v3 Retrieved: 06 05, Oct 27, 2016 (GMT)

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Top ten occupations (2010-2014) - growing / shrinking

Top Ten Growing Occupations**	2010	2014	Diff
Sales Assistant (General)	235,449	273,104	37,655
Corporate General Manager	162,899	198,595	35,696
Office Manager	145,522	172,883	27,361
Primary School Teacher	121,599	147,589	25,990
Child Care Worker	73,496	92,813	19,317
Aged or Disabled Carer	103,196	121,359	18,163
Labourers nec	72,007	89,238	17,231
Program or Project Administrator	81,640	94,905	13,265
Registered Nurse (Aged Care)	29,605	42,581	12,976
Machine Operators nec	18,764	31,263	12,499

Top Ten Shrinking Occupations**	2010	2014	Diff
Practice Managers nec	131,480	73,434	68,722
General Clerk	361,094	326,118	34,976
Earthmoving Labourer	33,313	13,585	19,728
Sales Representatives nec	90,840	74,679	16,161
Nurse Practitioner	35,031	21,767	13,264
Secretary (General)	46,570	33,800	12,770
Farm	33,781	21,038	12,743
Hospitality Workers nec	40,256	28,725	11,531
Clerical and Administrative Workers nec	44,280	32,874	11,406
Checkout Operator	65,242	54,294	10,948

NB**: excludes unnamed occupations. Full List. Data (1162 lines, csv).

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Other sample reports

Several sample reports are now available, including;

• List of Occupations from largest to smallest
• List of Occupations from highest average wage to smallest
• List of Sole Trader industries from highest sales to smallest
• Change in one Industry over time - Hairdressing.

For more information: contact richard.ferrers@monash.edu.