Towards small area indicators of well-being for older Australians: concepts and issues
Riyana Miranti, Alicia Payne and Justine McNamara
Nationl Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra
Contact Email:   Justine.McNamaranatsem.canberra.edu.au

NATSEM is currently working on an ARC-funded project entitled Opportunity and Disadvantage: Differences in Well-being among Australia’s Adults and Children at a Small Area Level. This project is focused on the identification and, where necessary, creation, of small area level data related to advantage and disadvantage for different groups of Australians, and is aimed at increasing our understanding of the nature of locational disadvantage. A key stage of this project is to develop a set of indicators appropriate for studying differences in advantage and disadvantage among older people in Australia at the small area level. To initiate this development we have conducted an extensive literature review of Australian and international sources in order to develop conceptual frameworks and domains to inform the selection of indicators for analysis. This paper will present our findings thus far, and will include a discussion of the context of our project and the indicators that are currently being used in Australia and internationally to measure older people’s well-being. We will also present the broad conceptual frameworks underpinning our work, the domains of well-being we have selected; and provide examples of preliminary results at the small area level.

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