Equity caveat explained Place Forecast Concept
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Place Forecast Feature
- Housing Suitability
- Year of Arrival
- Country of Birth of Parents
- Children Ever Born
- Language at Home
- Citizenship
- Marital Status
- Social Marital Status
- Family Blending
- Household Type
- Same-sex Couple Family
- Religion
- Proficiency in English
- Tenure Type
- Landlord Type
- Housing Loan Repayment
- Rental Payment
- Number of Bedrooms
- Ancestry
- Birthplace
- First Nations
An equity caveat is a note about how a number can misrepresent or leave out a group of people. It warns you when the ABS category, the Census question, or the small-area method does not capture how a community really lives.
Equity caveats are different from methodology caveats. A methodology caveat is about how the figures are built, like perturbation or downscaling. Those live on the marker methodology page. An equity caveat is about who the data might describe unfairly. So we keep it on the page, next to the number it affects.
Place Forecast uses five equity caveats. Kinship is about families who share care across more people than the Census records. Community-validation is about reading a small-area figure as a pattern, not as a community's own account of itself. Sex and gender is about the Census recording sex as female or male only, so some people are not shown. Deficit-framing is about reading a category as a count, not as a judgement. Indigenous Data Sovereignty is the right of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to govern data about their communities.
Each marker page shows the equity caveats that apply to it. The Reading this data fairly section lists them, with a link to read more about each one.