Table 3.
Data sources used in the 2018 Australian National Liveability Study.
| Custodian | Year | Dataset and reference |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Bureau of Statistics | 2016 | ASGS Volume 1 geopackage boundaries (Mesh Block, Statistical Areas 1–4, Greater Capital City Statistical Areas)19 |
| 2016 | ASGS Volume 3 geopackage Suburb and LGA geometries21 | |
| 2016 | ASGS Volume 4 geopackage (Significant Urban Areas, Urban Centres and Localities, Section of State)20 | |
| 2016 | Mesh Block dwelling and person counts7 | |
| 2016 | State Suburbs and Local Government Areas ASGS Edition 2016 in.csv Format (for Mesh Block linkage codes)68 | |
| 2016 | SEIFA IRSD 2016 (SA1 Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage)33 | |
| PSMA | 2018 | Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF) for Address locations, used in urban areas with dwellings36 |
| OpenStreetMap | Points of interest (see Supplementary Table 1) and Areas of Open Space derived from OpenStreetMap 1 October 2018 planet dump file40 | |
| 2018 | Pedestrian network and intersections generated using | |
| OSMnx from OpenStreetMap (via Overpass API http://overpass-api.de/)39 | ||
| ACECQA | 2019 | Australian Children’s Education & Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) childcare centres (geocoded)41 |
| ACARA | 2019 | Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), Primary and secondary schools, by sector (geocoded)42 |
| Healthdirect Australia | 2017 | National Health Services Directory (accessed via AURIN Portal, https://portal.aurin.org.au/)43 |
| Healthy Liveable Cities Lab | 2016–2018 | Additional geocoded datasets curated by Health Liveable Cities Lab from multiple sources: web-scraped supermarket and fast-food major chains, 201724; Australian public lending libraries, 2016–1844 |
| State Transport agencies | 2018, 2019 | GTFS feed data covering the period 8 October to 5 December for 2018 and 201969–78 |