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Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources
CONTACT WEB SITE
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DESCRIPTION:
Australia as a Modern Economy, Some Statistical Indicators 2002, Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources
This compilation brings together quantitative indicators of Australia's status as a modern, knowledge-based economy (KBE) including comparisons with other countries.
It draws on data from the OECD's Science Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2001, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and other sources.
DISSEMINATION:
Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources, Canberra, June 2002
DATA DETAIL
Indicators are presented within the following framework
Information and Communication Technologies
Business Environment
Innovation
Human Resources
DEFINITIONS
Knowledge-based Industries (KBIs)
OECD groups high-technology and medium-high-technology manufactures, together with health and education services, financial and business services, and communication services as knowledge-based industries.
Knowledge-intensive industries are defined by the OECD as follows:
- High technology manufacturing - aircraft, office and computing equipment,drugs, and medicine, radio, TV and communications equipment (=ISIC 2423, 30, 32, 33, 353)
- Medium-high technology manufacturing - professional goods, motor vehicles, electrical machinery excluding communications equipment, chemicals excluding drugs, other transport equipment, non-electrical machinery (=ISIC 24 less 2423, 29, 31, 34, 352, 359)
- Knowledge-intensive services - education,health, posts and telecommunications, finance and insurance, business services (excluding property services) (=ISIC 64, 65-67, 71-74, 80, 85).
Knowledge Workers
Managers, professionals and associate professionals.
- Under ISCO-68 classification include the major groups 0/1 and 2 (Professional, technical and related workers & Administrative and managerial workers).
- Under the ISCO-88 classification include the major groups 1, 2 and 3 (legislators, senior officials and managers, Professionals, & Technicians and associate professionals).
GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE:
Australia
HISTORICAL DATA:
Knowledge-based activities: selected indicators 2000, Department of Industry, Science and Resources
Knowledge-intensive industries has a different working definition of 'knowledge-intensive service' in this earlier publication because of a broader OECD definition which included property services. Also 'community, social and personal services' was included, as a proxy for health and education services in the 1999 publication. See technical notes for further details.
For information on the Knowledge-based Economy and Society see Discussion Paper Measuring a Knowledge-based Economy and Society.
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