Methods

Social Indicators

Social indicators are developed from census data, survey data and other secondary data sources. Social indicators include those based on

  1. relative comparisons between communities, organisations and geographic regions and;
  2. temporal comparisons across different time periods.

Indicators are often used in a monitoring and evaluation framework and can be used to assess the achievement of project or programs goals or targets. While social indicators themselves are generally relatively quantitative, EBC has developed integrative approaches to allow qualitative data to be used in the development, use and interpretation of indicators.

Furthermore social indicators are often developed and integrated and assessed alongside biophysical and economic indicators and may be displayed using specialised graphics and spatial mapping techniques. Examples of projects in which social indicators have been developed and used are shown below.

Recent Reports and Publications

  1. Monitoring and evaluating the performance of NAPSWQ regional bodies in Queensland (2006).
  2. Socio-economic work plan: Pre-implementation review of the methodology to assess the capacity of regional organisations and the social and institutional foundations of NRM (2006).
  3. Monitoring economic and social changes in the water sharing Plan areas in NSW (2007).

Display older publications.

  1. Murray-Darling Basin groundwater policy options analysis (2006).
  2. Social and economic needs analysis and social benchmarking project: Project development (2006).
  3. Socio-economic work plan: Pre-implementation review of the methodology to assess the capacity of regional organisations and the social and institutional foundations of NRM (2006).
  4. Refining indicators for monitoring and evaluating the social and institutional foundations of regional NRM programs (2005)
  5. Guidebook on social impact assessment (2005).
  6. Community attitudes towards Illawarra Coal, environmental and mining issues (2005).
  7. A monitoring and evaluation process for the social dimensions of the NHT and the NAPSWQ (2004).
  8. Framework development: Indicators of capacity, performance and change in regional NRM bodies (2004).
  9. Monitoring and evaluation processes for the social dimensions of NHT and NAP (2004).
  10. An assessment of the economic and social impact of reserve proposals on areas of high mineral potential (2002).
  11. Brigalow Belt South Bioregion: Database toolkit for forest industry social and economic assessment (2002).
  12. Social change and agricultural extension: A conceptual framework and research methodology (2001).
  13. Social assessment of the Margaret River (WA) wine industry (2001).
  14. Social assessment of the Riverlands (SA) wine Industry (2001).
  15. Social assessment of the South East trawl fishery: Application of TRC-analysis (2001).
  16. Social assessment survey of irrigators in the Burnett WAMP region (2000).
  17. TRC-Analysis for the Condamine-Balonne water allocation and management plan (WAMP) (2000).

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