Ways of knowing: creating, locating and evaluating evidence
Seminar
Hear from a diverse panel considering the different ways of coming to know and present evidence to inform. Formal research is only one type of evidence and you’ll hear from people working in policy-making, data science, climate change, gender, and health. The intended audience is consumers of…
Familial citizenship in the era of bordered globalization
Seminar
In this seminar, Professor Hacker offers a brief overview of her latest book, Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization, followed by a more in-depth focus on what she terms as the ‘right to familial citizenship’ (i.e., the right of family members to be citizens of the same nation…
The Australian Minimum Wage and the Needs of a Family
Seminar
A final PhD seminar (oral presentation): The 1907 Harvester decision established a minimum wage for male workers deemed to be fair and reasonable “for himself and his family”. Today the minimum wage is set for a single person with state support for families with young children, and effectively an…
A universal global measure of univariate and bivariate data utility for confidentialised unit record files
Seminar
Most existing data utility measures for confidentialised unit record files have certain shortcomings, i.e. are limited to continuous variables, to univariate utility assessment, and/or to local information loss measurements. This seminar will present a new user-centered global data utility measure…
Where have all the young offenders gone? Insights from two NSW Birth Cohorts
Seminar
The Australian Crime Decline has now been well documented. In particular, comprehensive analysis in New South Wales (NSW) has shown significant reductions in most major crime categories. Coinciding with a significant and abrupt shortage of heroin, early analysis of the crime decline pointed to a…
Sampling Rare Religious Populations in the United States
Seminar
Sampling rare religious populations in the United States poses a number of challenges. There are no official statistics on religious affiliation at a low-level, requiring pre-survey county-level estimates to be assembled from a variety of sources and estimated using small-area techniques. With less…
Social inequality and mortality: New evidence from the ABS Linked Census-Mortality Database
Seminar
Mortality rates are higher in disadvantaged communities and amongst disadvantaged population. However, accurate quantification of inequalities in Australia has been limited by data availability. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has recently created a resource linking Death Registrations to…