10 : Reading : Socio-Economic Areas

I have been trying to compile the information I need to create a map which highlights the areas which will be the most advantaged by a light rail network (for example, places which will require it to get them to from work/school etc if the using private transport was too expensive).

SEIFA: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas
This has loads of data, but with all the numbers it is difficult to sift through - I think I will focus on finding research papers which have already used this data in relation to Canberra (I figure this will be the most time-efficient approach). 

Suburban scars: Australian cities and socio-economic deprivation
This article by Scott Baum, from Griffith University, uses SEIFA data to create a General Deprivation Index.

Canberra is largely considered as a public service town which usually translate into generally less deprived suburbs. The regional concentration ratio of Canberra shows relative deprivation to be low. In particular there are very few suburbs with even moderately high deprivation (the exception being Acton, the suburb largely containing the Australian National University). (Baum, 2008, page 27).

I have obtained the list of all the suburbs from the appendix of this article and will now use this to create a few pretty little mappings. 

I know that paying some extra special attention to these maps now, can mean some great 'last minute' additions in the final presentation.