1383.0.55.001 - Measures of Australia's Progress: Summary Indicators, 2009

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INDICATORS OF PROGRESS

This table includes links to updated indicators for headline dimensions and to background material from MAP 2006 (cat. no. 1370.0) for the supplementary dimensions.

Headline dimensions	Headline progress indicators	Supplementary progress indicators	Other indicators

Health	Life expectancy at birth	Proportion of people surviving to ages 25, 50 and 75 Infant mortality rate Avoidable deaths Incidence of all cancer Incidence of heart attacks Burden of disease	International life expectancy at birth Living with disability Causes of death

Education and training	People aged 25-64 with a vocational or higher education qualification	Education participation rate for those aged 15-19 Year 7/8 to Year 12 apparent retention rate Human capital stock Education participation rates and attainment levels for those aged 15-64 OECD literacy rates, science, reading and mathematics Indigenous to non-Indigenous education participation and attainment ratios Female students as a proportion of all students	International level of higher education Education participation for those aged 15-64 Level of highest non-school qualification for those aged 25-64

Work	Unemployment rate	Labour force underutilisation rate Proportion of people working Long-term unemployment rate Retrenchment rate Unemployment to population ratios	Casual employees People working part-time or longer hours (50 hours a week worked or more) Average hours per week, full-time workers

National income	Real net national disposable income per capita	Real gross domestic product per capita Real final consumption expenditure per capita Real household consumption expenditure per capita Net national saving as a proportion of GDP Real industry gross value added Real gross state income per capita Terms of trade Population in work	Selected measures of equivalised household disposable income International comparisons of national income: Gross National income International comparisons of national income: average annual GDP growth

Economic hardship	Average real equivalised weekly disposable income of households in the second and third deciles of the income distribution	Indicators of economic situation by household composition

National wealth	Real national net worth per capita	Real national assets and liabilities per capita Real net capital stock per capita Economically demonstrated resources (minerals and energy) per capita Real net foreign debt Real gross fixed capital formation per capita Mean household net worth Mean value of selected household assets and liabilities

Housing	Currently no headline indicator	Investment in dwellings House price index	Households in dwellings requiring an additional bedroom

Productivity	Multifactor productivity	Labour productivity Research and development expenditure as a proportion of GDP Investment in software as a proportion of GDP Managers and professionals as a proportion of total employment Proportion of businesses with web site or home page Hours worked and quality adjusted hours worked Proportion of businesses innovating

The natural landscape	Threatened birds and mammals Annual area of land cleared Salinity, assets at risk in areas affected, or with a high potential to develop, salinity Water management areas, proportion where use exceeded 70% of sustainable yield	Trends in threatened species Mammalian extinctions Species-threatening invasive animals Proportion of ecosystems: area protected Weeds of national significance, distribution Native forest area Net water use Total water storage capacity of large dams Water diversions: Murray-Darling Basin River condition (biota) index	Cattle and sheep numbers Natural and actual flows in the River Murray International comparison: Threatened bird species International comparison: Water abstraction per capita

The air and atmosphere	Fine particle concentrations, days health standards exceeded, selected capital cities Net greenhouse gas emissions	Days when ozone concentrations exceeded guidelines, selected capital cities Highest one hour averages of SO₂, selected regional centres v CO₂-e emissions, net, per capita and per $ GDP Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions for selected sectors Carbon dioxide concentrations Consumption of ozone depleting substances	International comparison: net greenhouse gas emissions per capita

Oceans and estuaries	No headline indicator	Fish stocks subject to overfishing Estuarine condition index Visitors to the Great Barrier Reef Number of reported oil spills

Family, community and social cohesion	No headline indicator	Children without an employed parent Voluntary work Primary carers of elderly and disabled No participation in selected activities Proportion of children in lone mother families Suicide and drug-induced death rates (indicators in the Work dimension are also relevant)	Family type Participation in religious activities Racism

Crime	Victims of personal crime Victims of household crime	Homicide rate	Imprisonment rate

Democracy, governance and citizenship	No headline indicator	Proportion of Federal parliamentarians who are women Proportion of eligible population enrolled to vote Voter turnout and informal votes cast Federal Parliamentary election candidates Volunteering rates for management, committee and coordination work Proportion of eligible overseas-born residents who are citizens Proportion of executive managers and board members of ASX200 companies who are women	Indigenous members of Federal parliaments and State and Territory legislative assemblies

Supplementary dimensions	Supplementary and other indicators

Culture and leisure	No indicators
Inflation	Consumer price index Domestic final demand price index Total final consumption expenditure Total gross fixed capital formation
Competitiveness and openness	Trade weighted exchange rate Real unit labour costs Ratio of imports to GDP Ratio of foreign investment inflow to GDP
Communication	Computer ownership and internet access, households
Transport	Passenger vehicles per 1,000 people Road fatalities