Useful Sources for Statistics and Reports

• International Development
• Community Development

The below are recommended websites to check:

• Australian Institute of International Affairs 
• BRICS Portal
• Society for Community Research and Action

International Development

• Ausaid - Try Publications or Reseach.
• Australian Council for International Development - Click on 'Resources & Publications' in their top menu bar.
• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Gives an overview of current Australian foreign policy. Includes country and region profiles
• Human Development Reports - Produced since 1990 by the United Nations Development Programme.
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Click on Research or Data & Statistics.
• Millennium Goals - 2015 - Try the report's section
• NGOs - Ausaid's list of accredited NGOs & UN list of accreditted NGOs.
• OECD iLibrary - Statistical publications, reports and working papers produced by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). Available from the VU Library.
• Project  for Public Spaces (PPS) - Try the Resources or the Placemaking Blog.
• United Nations Development programme -  Try their Research & Publications.
• World Bank - Try 'Publications' or 'Research' in the top menu bar or use the World Development Indicators or or their World Development Reports.
• World Factbook from the CIA

Community Development

• Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) - Click on the ‘Topics @ a Glance’ link on the top menu bar and drill down to relevant stats.
  • ABS yearly report ‘Australia’s Social Trends’ 
  • SEIFA Indexes  - SEIFA or the Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas is a product developed by the ABS that ranks areas in Australia according to relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage. The indexes are based on Census data. 
• Aged and Community Services Australia - Try the National Report’ or click on ‘Publications’ from the top menu bar.
• Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) - Try the ACOSS Factsheets or their Reports.
• Australian Institute of Criminology - Try the ‘Crime and Community’ tabs on the top menu: 
• Australian Institute of Family Studies - Try ‘Publications’ or ‘Facts & Figures’.
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - Try their publications ‘Australia’s Health’, ‘Australia’s Welfare' or click on ‘Data’ or ‘Publications’ from the top menu bar. 
• Federal Department of Immigration and Citizenship 
  • Community Information Summaries.
  • Statistics
  • Publications
• Federal Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
  Click on one of their categories at the top of the screen, e.g. ‘Families and Children’ or ‘Communities and Vulnerable People’. Then click on ‘Publications & Articles’ on the left-hand menu.
• Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia
  Click on the ‘Resources’ tab at the top of this webpage to see Fact Sheets on issues affecting ethnic communities.
• Hansard
  • Federal Parliament - 1901 onwards. 
  • Victorian Parliament - 1999 onwards.
• HILDA (Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) Survey
• [In]Sight: 
  Compares Australian Local Government areas on a number of social and economic indicators.
• Local Government Websites
  Are a valuable source of information as they often have demographic data for their municipality, for example:  The City of Maribyrnong Community Profile
• The Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU) at Adelaide University
  •  Social Health Atlases of Australia
• Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW
  Click on ‘Publications’ or ‘Research’  on the left-hand menu on this webpage or try the Research Reports
• Top twenty data sources for describing community wellbeing in Victoria (PDF)
• Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development
  On the left hand menu on this webpage, Click on ‘Publications and Research’ Go to:
  • ‘Urban & Regional Research’ includes demographic data on Local Government and regional areas. Includes ‘Victoria in future’ and ‘Victorian Population Bulletin’ 
  • ‘Indicators of Community Strength’ data
  • ‘Community development research’ access research reports on community development
• Victoria Multicultural Commission
  Click on the ‘Population and Migration’ tab on the top menu of this webpage, then Census information to access Community Fact sheets and Community Profiles.