How Do I Reference Place Forecast Data?
You're putting together a council plan, a strategy, or a report, and some of the numbers in it come from your Place Forecast. Now you want to credit the source properly, and you're wondering what wording we'd prefer. Here it is.
The Simple Credit Line
For most uses, the credit you need is the one Place Forecast already prints on every chart and table:
Source: Forecast data provided by Place Info Pty Ltd.
The credit travels with the downloads too: a chart image carries it in the picture, a CSV export carries it below the data, and an Excel export carries it on a separate Notes sheet. For charts and exports used as-is, we accept this built-in line as sufficient credit. The same line works for figures you quote in your own text, tables you rebuild in your document's style, or numbers that feed your own charts.
When You Need a Full Citation
If your document has a reference list, or your style guide asks for something more specific, use the citation format from our terms and conditions:
Source: Place Forecast by Place Info ([link to the specific dataset or page]), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Place Forecast is the product your forecast lives in; Place Info is the company behind it.
Replace the bracketed part with a link to the page you took the numbers from, eg your forecast's population page. That link does a lot of quiet work: it tells your readers exactly which forecast, which page, and which scenario the figures come from.
If your document's style guide asks for an access date, add one at the end. A Place Forecast is a living forecast that gets updated as new data arrives, so a date pins the figures you quoted to a point in time.
What the Licence Means
Place Forecast data is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0). You're free to share and adapt the data, even commercially, as long as you give credit using the format above and note any changes you made. If you adapt and republish the data itself, license that adapted data under the same terms. Quoting figures in your council plan doesn't put your plan under this licence. The licence covers the data; the platform, visualisations, and algorithms remain Place Info's property. The full details are in our terms and conditions.
What About the Underlying Data?
Place Forecast is built on data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and other public sources. For any figure you read off a Place Forecast page, estimated or projected, referencing Place Forecast is enough; those numbers are our work. When you took a figure straight from an ABS publication (a Census count, for example), reference the ABS as the source of that figure instead.
Need a Different Format?
If your style guide calls for a different format, or you're not sure how to reference something specific, get in touch. We're happy to help you word it.