Mayor Karen Williams Lies About SEIFA Rankings On SMBI
One thing that I found interesting in the Chamber of Commerce "Meet the Candidates" events on the weekend is when the Mayor said that the SMBI had a SEIFA ranking of 3. This is extremely... well, I was going to say misleading, but I think more "outright lie" is appropriate here. Let me delve into this a little so we can all understand the issue here. The SEIFA Ranking is the Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas as obtained from the latest 2016 Census data. It ranks areas across Australia on their Socio-Economic status in a number of ways. There are a number of ways these areas can be defined, one of which is the Local Government Area (LGA) and another is SA1 (or down to the finest level of detail available). And here's a comment from the SEIFA 2016 Technical Paper: "The primary unit of analysis and the smallest area for which the indexes are available is the Statistical Area Level 1 (SA1). This is the recommended unit of analysis for SEIF...

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