Dates and Times
24 July 2023
12:00 - 14:00
Event for
Location
Organiser
Artem Grigoriev
Speakers
Associate Professor Yogi Vidyattama
Enquiry
Artem Grigoriev
BGL Faculty Seminar: Understanding Poverty in Australia
Understanding Poverty in Australia: comparing NSW and Victoria
Profiling the demographic composition of people facing poverty is important for planning the service and constructing the appropriate policies. As there is no official poverty measure in Australia, the discussion will start from the poverty line in Australia and then using the threshold of 50% of median household disposable income, this research will derive the estimate of poverty from two sets of ABS data: the 2019-20 Survey of Income and Housing (SIH); and the 2021 Census of Population and Housing. The work will further look at the estimate for NSW and Victoria, their similarities, differences and changes from 2016 estimates. The presentation is based on the continuing works for NSW and Victoria council of social services, NCOSS and VCOSS, respectively.
Presenter Bio
Yogi Vidyattama focuses his work in spatial and geographical economic analysis. He is also highly experienced in microsimulation modelling, economic growth, income and wealth distribution and inequality. His current principal areas of research include spatial impact of government policy; housing affordability; spatial distribution of inequality and disadvantage; and analysis of wealth and superannuation. In conjunction with his work in spatial analysis, Yogi also has the capability in Geographical Information System (GIS) using mapping programs (ArcGIS, GeoDa, QGIS) and publishing online maps.
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