municipal public health and wellbeing plan productivity fact sheet

Productivity looks at innovation and opportunities for the community to build on. It is a measure of how efficiently inputs such as labour and energy are converted into beneficial outputs (i.e. a product). Some of the issues linked with productivity are business innovation, education and employment opportunities for the community.

Workforce Employment is one of the most strongly evidenced determinants of health. People’s employment status and the nature of their work have a direct bearing on their physical and mental health and even their life expectancy. This is related to income, a sense of making a valuable contribution and increased social networks gained through work.1

Unemployment For the March 2012 quarter, the unemployment rate in Greater Bendigo was 4.9% compared to Regional Victoria’s rate of 5.3%.2

Employment Top 3 Industries and Occupations in Greater Bendigo (2011) 2

Greater Bendigo (%) Victoria (%)

Industry

Health Care and Social Assistance 15.2 11.6

Retail Trade 12.9 10.8

Manufacturing 10.2 10.7

Occupation

Professionals 19.4 22.3

Technicians and Trade Workers 15.0 13.9

Clerical and Admin Workers 13.1 14.4

In Greater Bendigo, 83% of children live in a household where adults have a job compared to 82% in Victoria.3

Product iv i ty

Fact Sheet

Updated December 2012

City of Greater Bendigo – Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan

Productivity Fact Sheet page 2

Internet Type of Internet Connection in Greater Bendigo8

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

No internetconnection

Broadband Dial up Other Not Stated

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Work-Life Balance4


% people who felt they had a good work-life balance

42.6 53.0



Lifelong Learning/Education

Enrolments

Kindergarten (or preschool) is a program for all children in the year before they enter primary school. These programs aim to develop children's social, emotional, intellectual, physical and language abilities and to help them prepare for the transition to school.

Evidence suggests that children’s participation in early childhood education can provide them with short and long term benefits including improved literacy and numeracy, enhanced self esteem, better employment prospects and improved health outcomes.5

Within the Greater Bendigo municipality, there are more than 20 preschools, 45 primary schools and 10 secondary schools as well as a TAFE and University campus.6

Kindergarten Enrolments in Greater Bendigo

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

No % No % No % No % No % No % Non-Indigenous Persons Greater Bendigo5

n/a n/a 1,123 90.9 1,064 88.3 1,169 96.9 1,056 89.6 1,123 95.3

Indigenous Persons Greater Bendigo7

9 n/a 15 1.2 17 1.4 17 1.4 24 2.0 31 2.6

Non-indigenous Victoria5

n/a n/a 57,302 92.7 56,673 91.4 57,497 91.8 58,818 92.4 59,740 92.7

Indigenous Persons Victoria7

534 n/a 465 0.7 529 0.8 504 0.8 525 0.8 n/a n/a

Please note: % is total of 3 year old population



School Enrolments 2010 (Indigenous students) 7

Year Level

Greater Bendigo

Prep 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

23 21 16 19 22 16 25 20 33 20.4 21 16 13.5

School Enrolments 2011 8

2006 Number 2006 % 2011 Number 2011 % Pre-school 1,440 4.9 1,635 5.5 Primary Government 5,959 71.0 5,401 66.4 Catholic 1,966 23.4 2,102 25.8 Other non-

government 460 5.5 629 7.7

Total primary 8,385 28.9 8,132 27.4 Secondary Government 4,724 69.0 4,274 63.2 Catholic 1,360 19.9 1,600 23.7 Other non-

government 760 11.1 889 13.1

Total secondary 6,844 23.6 6,763 22.8

School Completion Year left school aged 15 years or over (2006-2011) 9

05

1015202530354045

Yr 12 orequivalent

Yr 11 orequivalent

Yr 10 orequivalent

Yr 9 orequivalent

Yr 8 or below Didn’t go toschool

Not stated

Year level left school

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Indigenous persons 2006 Indigenous persons 2011

Non Indigenous persons 2006 Non Indigenous persons 2011

People with a disability are less likely to have completed Year 12 or equivalent compared to the general population.10



School Absent Days Average absence days of students enrolled in government schools (2009)

Prep Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12

Greater Bendigo 13.5 12.8 12.9 n/a n/a 15.2 15.8 18.0 22.3 25.1 22.9 19.2 10.9

Victoria 14.7 14.4 14.0 n/a n/a 14.0 14.4 16.2 19.8 22.5 20.9 15.8 13.0

Reference: Prep-Yr 25, Yr 5 – Yr 129

Non School Qualifications Non school qualifications of people aged 15 years and over (2006)

Greater Bendigo

Indigenous persons (%)7 Non Indigenous (%)9

Postgrad degree 0.0 45 (number)

Doc degree n/a 2.0

Masters degree n/a 5.0

Graduate Diploma 0.0 10.0

Graduate Certificate 0.0 97 (number)

Bachelor Degree 3.4 48.0

Adv Dip and Dip 3.0 37 (number) Adv Dip and Assoc Degree n/a 13.0

Diploma n/a 14.0

Certificate 17.4 6.0

Certificate 3 and 4 n/a 76.0

Certificate 1 and 2 n/a 7.0

People with a disability are less likely to have a higher qualification compared to people without a disability.10



Development Children in their first year of school3


Children well developed by their first year of school 87.0 90.0

Children with good physical health and wellbeing 93.0 92.0

Children with good social competence and wellbeing 89.0 92.0

Children with good emotional maturity 88.0 92.0

Children with good language and cognitive skills 92.0 94.0

Children with good communication and general knowledge 91.0 92.0

Students meeting national standards in reading (Government schools only)3

80

82

84

86

88

90

92

94

96

98

100

Year 3 Year 5 Year 7 Year 9

Year Level

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Greater Bendigo

Victoria

Students meeting national standards in writing (Government schools only)3

80

82

84

86

88

90

92

94

96

98

100

Year 3 Year 5 Year 7 Year 9

Year Level

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Victoria



Social Isolation

Disengaged Youth In 2006, 10.9% of people aged 15-24 years in Greater Bendigo were not employed or attending an education institution, compared with 10.3% in regional Victoria. The percentage of youth classed as disengaged in each suburb in Greater Bendigo varied with a low of 4.8% to a high of 19.9%. The five suburbs that had the highest proportion of disengaged youth were:

• Long Gully - West Bendigo - Ironbark (19.9%) • Eaglehawk - Eaglehawk North - Sailors Gully (15.6%) • North Bendigo - California Gully (15.4%) • Kangaroo Flat - Big Hill (13.3%) • Golden Square (12.9%) 11

Young adults, post Year 12, who are classed as engaged in Greater Bendigo in 2006, was 65.3% compared to 71.9% in Victoria.9

Homelessness Indication of homelessness9

Greater Bendigo Victoria No. % % Caravan, cabin, houseboat 379 0.44 0.24

Improvised home, tent, sleepers out 113 0.13 0.05

In Greater Bendigo, young people are usually exposed to secondary and tertiary homelessness. Secondary homelessness is when they move between various forms of temporary shelter (eg. family/friends, boarding houses etc) and tertiary homelessness is when they are living permanently in private boarding houses. In 2009/10, St Luke’s youth program serviced 190 young people who were in immediate homelessness across Greater Bendigo.12



Income and Wealth

SEIFA The Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (SEIFA) is ‘derived from attributes such as low income, low educational attainment, high unemployment, jobs in relatively unskilled occupations and variables that broadly reflect disadvantage rather than measure specific aspects of disadvantage’.

In 2006 the areas in Greater Bendigo which had the lowest SEIFA scores (which means the areas of highest disadvantage) were:

• Long Gully - West Bendigo - Ironbark (867) • North Bendigo - California Gully (895) • Heathcote & District (925) • Eaglehawk - Eaglehawk North - Sailors Gully (931) • Kangaroo Flat - Big Hill (944)

The SEIFA score for Greater Bendigo in 2006 was 984.11

Other areas in Greater Bendigo which had a SEIFA score below the regional Victorian average of 986 include:

• Golden Square (956) • White Hills (960) • Flora Hill (967) • Bendigo (971)13

Income

Income (2011)14

Greater Bendigo Victoria

Household gross weekly income less than $600 28.1% 23.8%

Household gross weekly income more than $3,000 5.1% 10.4%

Median Household Income (2006)7


Indigenous Population $645 $763

Total Population $833 $1,022



Household Expenditure2

Household expenditure, City of Greater Bendigo and Victoria 2011 - $ per household (2008/09 constant prices)

Change in household expenditure, City of Greater Bendigo 2010 to 2011 - $ per household (2008/09 constant prices)



Disability Support Pension The Disability Support Pension is to provide income support for people who have a permanent physical, intellectual or psychiatric impairment.

Disability Support Pension recipients aged 15 years and over (March 2011) 9

Location No. %

Greater Bendigo 5,277 6.2

Victoria 196,706 4.3

Rental and Mortgage Stress14


Median Weekly Rent Payments $200 $277

Households with rent payments less than 30% of household income 91.5% 90.9%

Households with rent payments greater than 30% of household income 8.5% 9.1%

Median Weekly Mortgage Repayments $1,300 $1,700

Households with mortgage repayments less than 30% of household income 92.5% 89.9%

Households with mortgage repayments greater than 30% of household income 7.5% 10.1%

In Australia, around 45% of people with a disability live in poverty or near poverty and the situation is worsening.10

Gaming in Greater Bendigo Gaming is a legitimate form of recreation in Victoria. The net EGM expenditure in June 2012 in Greater Bendigo was $3,941,819.79 and for the 2011/12 financial year the total net expenditure was

$ 47,459,788.26.15

Gaming15


Density of EGM per 1,000 adults 6.68 6.00

Net EGM expenditure per adult $580 $601



Gambling Expenditure, by form of gambling product, Victoria, 2008-09 ($ million)16

‘Other gaming’ includes: instant lottery, keno, lotteries, minor gaming and pools

Definition of Problem Gambling

“Problem gambling is characterised by difficulties in limiting money and/or time spent on ambling which leads to averse consequences for the gambler, others, or for the community.” 17

The Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission states the prevalence of problem gambling in Victorian adults is:

• 0.7% are problem gamblers • 2.4% are moderate risk gamblers • 5.7% are low risk gamblers

Using these figures, for Greater Bendigo this could mean for the adult population (18 years and over):

• 565 people are problem gamblers • 1,937 are moderate risk gamblers • 4,601 are low risk gamblers16

Economic Costs of Gaming

Gaming is a very poor performing and parasitic economic sector which offers very little to national, state and particularly regional and local economies compared with any other industry. It has been calculated that the annual social costs from problem gambling based on worker productivity loss, additional costs to the health system and the cost of crime linked to EGMs to be $37.5 million for the total estimated 3,500 problem gamblers in Greater Bendigo.18



References 1 London Health Commission (2006) Sustainable Local Economies for health Project [online]. Available:

http://www.londonshealth.gov.uk/RTF/SLEHP_guidance.doc

2 .id (2012) Community Profile [online]. Available: http://profile.id.com.au/bendigo/home

3 St Luke’s Anglicare (2011) The State of Bendigo’s Children Report [online]. Available: http://www.stlukes.org.au/Pages/Resources/Advocacy/16/The_State_of_Bendigo_s_Children_Report.aspx

4 Community Indicators Victoria (2007) Greater Bendigo Wellbeing Report [online]. Available: http://www.communityindicators.net.au/wellbeing_reports/greater_bendigo

5 Department of Education and Early Childhood (2010) Early Childhood Community Profile [online]. Available: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/directions/children/vcams/eccommunity.htm

6 City of Greater Bendigo (2011) Living in Bendigo [online]. Available: http://www.bendigo.vic.gov.au/About_us/About_Bendigo/New_residents/Living_in_Bendigo

7 Campaspe and Bendigo Loddon PCP (2011) Indigenous Population Health and Wellbeing Profile. Prepared by Nancy Vaughan.

8 Australian Bureau of Statistics (2011) 2011 Census of Housing and Population: Basic Community Profile [online]. Available: www.abs.gov.au

9 Bendigo Loddon Primary Care Partnership (2012) Community Health and Wellbeing Profile [online]. Available: http://www.blpcp.com.au/planning/index.aspx

10 VicHealth (2012) Disability and Health Inequalities in Australia: Research Summary [online]. Available: http://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/Publications/Health-Inequalities/Disability-and-health-inequalities-in-Australia.aspx

11 .id (2012) Social Atlas [online]. Available: http://atlas.id.com.au/Default.aspx?id=134&pg=2005

12 Goldfields Local Learning and Employment Network (2011) School Business Community Partnership Brokers Environmental Scan [online]. Available: http://www.gllen.org.au/Local_Data.asp

13 Department of Planning and Community Development (2011) Change and Disadvantage in the Loddon Mallee Region [online]. Available: http://www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/home/publications-and-research/urban-and-regional-research/Regional-Victoria/chnage-and-disadvantge-in-regional-victoria

14 Australian Bureau of Statistics (2011) Greater Bendigo 2011 Census Quickstats [online]. Available: http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2011/quickstat/LGA22620?opendocument&navpos=220

15 Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (2012) Research and Statistics [online]. Available: http://www.vcglr.vic.gov.au/home/research+and+statistics/statistics/

16 Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission (2012) Inquiry into the Social and Economic Costs of Problem Gambling in Victoria – Issues Paper [online]. Available: http://www.vcec.vic.gov.au/CA256EAF001C7B21/pages/vcec-inquiries-current-inquiry-into-social-and-economic-costs-of-problem-gambling

17 VLGA (2012) Pokies Assessments: a how to guide [online]. Available: http://www.vlga.org.au/Resources/Library/Pokies_Assessments__a__how_to__guide.aspx

18 Pinge, Ian (2008) Electronic Gaming Machines in Bendigo 2008: Assessing their Economic Impact [online]. Available: http://www.bendigo.vic.gov.au/News_and_Information/Publications/Documents_listing/Gaming_Policy_Framework_-_Accessible_but_not_Convenient_Policy

For further information please contact the Social Planning Team on 5434 6079 or [email protected] or visit the website www.bendigo.vic.gov.au/healthandwellbeing

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