What is a low SEIFA score?
A SEIFA score is created using information about people and households in a particular area. This score is standardised against a mean of 1000 with a standard deviation of 100. This means that the average SEIFA score will be 1000 and the middle two-thirds of SEIFA scores will fall between 900 and 1100 (approximately).
What is the index of relative socio-economic disadvantage Irsd?
The Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) is a general socio-economic index that summarises a range of information about the economic and social conditions of people and households within an area. Unlike the other indexes, this index includes only measures of relative disadvantage.
What Organisation is responsible for the calculation of the Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas SEIFA?
Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (commonly known by its acronym, SEIFA) is a product that enables the assessment of the welfare of Australian communities. The indexes have been created by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the national statistical agency.
What do the SEIFA indexes of a defined area represent?
As measures of neighbourhood socio-economic status, the SEIFA indexes can be used to look at the relationship between neighbourhood disadvantage and health.
What does SEIFA measure?
SEIFA provides measures of socio-economic conditions by geographic area. Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) 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 information from the five-yearly Census.
What does Irsad measure?
IRSAD. The Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage (IRSAD) summarises information about the economic and social conditions of people and households within an area, including both relative advantage and disadvantage measures.
What is SEIFA measure?
What is low socioeconomic status in Australia?
Each SA1 in Australia receives a SEIFA score which is standardised against a national mean of 1000. All SA1 areas in Australia are then ranked on the basis of their SEIFA scores. Low SES students are defined as those students who live in the bottom 25 per cent of SA1 areas in this ranking.
What are socioeconomic disadvantages?
Being ‘socio-economically disadvantaged’ means living in less favourable social and economic circumstances than others in the same society. Features of socio-economic disadvantage can include low income and living in a deprived area.