However, in six of the ten PHAs in Brimbank, more people were without an Internet
connection at home than for Australia overall.
21.0% and above 18.0 to 20.9% 15.0 to 17.9% 12.0 to 14.9% below 12.0% No Internet access at home (%)
91
The highest rates were in St Albans - North/ Kings Park (22.9%, or 78% above the Australian rate), St Albans - South/ Sunshine North (20.8%, and 62% above), Ardeer - Albion/ Sunshine/ Sunshine West (20.5%, and 60% above), Deer Park - Derrimut (17.7%, and 38% above), Delahey (16.4%, and 28% above) and Keilor Downs (13.7%, and 7% above).
People in Taylors Lakes (10.4%), Keilor (11.9%), Sydenham (12.3%) and Cairnlea (12.4%) were the most likely to have access to the Internet at home.
Table 38: No Internet access at home, by PHA in Brimbank, 2011
PHA No. Rate* RR#
Keilor 1,085 11.9 0.61 Ardeer - Albion/ Sunshine/
Sunshine West 6,839 20.5 1.05
Cairnlea 809 12.4 0.64 Deer Park - Derrimut 3,222 17.7 0.91
Delahey 1,132 16.4 0.84 Keilor Downs 1,738 13.7 0.70 St Albans - North/ Kings
Park 7,162 22.9 1.17 St Albans - South/ Sunshine North 5,776 20.8 1.07 Sydenham 1,134 12.3 0.63 Taylors Lakes 1,586 10.4 0.53 Brimbank City 30,480 17.9 1.00
*Indirectly age-standardised rate per 100 population, also referred to as a percentage (age-standardised)
#RR is the ratio of the rate in the area to the rate for Australia
Regional comparisons
Almost one in five people in Sunshine lived in dwellings with no Internet connection (19.5%); this was the highest proportion of any SLA in Melbourne (Figure 23).
Figure 23: No Internet access at home, by SLA in Melbourne, 2011
*Indirectly age-standardised rate per 100 population, also referred to as a percentage (age-standardised)
Although Keilor had a lower proportion, with 16% of its population without this access, it was still ranked eleventh among Melbourne’s SLAs.
Correlations
This indicator was very strongly correlated at the SLA level across Melbourne with a number of other indicators of socioeconomic
disadvantage: children living in jobless
families, children in families where the mother has low educational attainment, people
working as labourers and people aged 15 years and over living with disability. There was also a very strong inverse correlation between this indicator and young people learning or earning.
Strong correlations were found with the education and child development indicators of children assessed as developmentally
vulnerable on one or more domains of the AEDC and more people having left school early (i.e., completed Year 10 or below, or did not go to school). There were relatively lower levels of preschool participation, relatively fewer people with their highest level of education being a Bachelor Degree or higher, and fewer children assessed as
developmentally on track in the physical health and wellbeing, and the language and cognitive skills domains of the AEDC.
There was a very strong correlation between this indicator and estimates for people
reporting fair or poor health, females with high or very high psychological distress, the
prevalence of diabetes mellitus, and male smokers. A strong correlation was also evident for low birthweight babies, women smoking during pregnancy, males with high or very high psychological distress and for people (aged 15 years and over) hospitalised with ambulatory care-sensitive conditions,
indicating relatively poorer access to effective primary health care.
Relatively poor outcomes are also evident for many of these indicators in Brimbank and its component areas.
Data sources, references and notes
1. Townsend P. Deprivation. Journal of SocialPolicy 1987; 16: 125-146.
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Household use of information technology, Australia, 2010-11. (ABS Cat. no. 8146.0). Canberra: ABS, 2011. 0.0 5.0 10.0 15.0 20.0 25.0 Sunshine Keilor Rate* Melbourne
Voluntary work
Volunteering can improve the health and wellbeing of volunteers by enhancing their support
networks, self-esteem and individual quality of life. It is estimated that volunteering (both arranged through an organisation or group, and informal unpaid help and care that occurs within personal networks) directly contributed $16.4 billion in 2006 to the Victorian economy, and also has substantial social benefits.1
Almost one fifth (17.8%) of the population reported undertaking voluntary work through an
organisation or a group in the year prior to the 2011 Census.2 These data are useful in the planning of local facilities and services, and in understanding the way individuals and families balance paid work and other important aspects of their lives with such community commitments.
Indicator definition: Comprises people aged 15 years and over who participated in voluntary work for an organisation or group in the twelve months before the 2011 Census, expressed as a proportion of the population aged 15 years and over.
Key points
Only half of the number of people in Brimbank aged 15 years and over reported that they participated in voluntary work when compared with the Australian average.
None of the PHAs had a participation rate above the Melbourne average.
Geographic variation
Only half of the number of people in Brimbank reported that they participated in voluntary work (9.0% of the population aged 15 years and over) when compared with the Australian average (17.8%) (Table 39). This rate is also lower than in Melbourne - West (11.5%). It is of note that the rate of participation in Melbourne is also below the Australian and ‘all capital cities’ average (of 17.8% and 16.3%, respectively).
At the SLA level, a higher proportion of the population of Keilor reported being involved in voluntary work for an organisation or group in the twelve months before the 2011 Census, at 9.7%, compared with 8.4% of the population aged 15 years and over in Sunshine.
Table 39: Voluntary work, Brimbank and comparators, 2011 Region No. % RR# Brimbank - Keilor 6,836 9.7 0.54 Brimbank - Sunshine 6,489 8.4 0.47 Brimbank City 13,325 9.0 0.51 Melbourne - West 55,867 11.5 0.64 Melbourne 516,533 15.8 0.89 Country Victoria 254,915 23.4 1.32 Victoria 772,443 17.7 1.00 Australia 3,090,875 17.8 1.00
#RR is the ratio of the percentage in the area to the percentage for Australia
None of the rates of participation in voluntary work at the PHA level in Brimbank were above the Melbourne average, with only Keilor (14.1%), Taylors Lakes (11.1%) and Sydenham (11.0%) having more than one in ten people in their populations engaged in this way (Map 19 and Table 40). Participation in the remaining areas varied from 7.4% to 9.8%.
Map 19: Voluntary work, by PHA in