Enhanced features of the Gladstone Region Wellbeing Data Hub now offer an increased depth of understanding of our community and region. Multi-dimensional viewpoints are presented together on the issues that matter to our region, providing more local context by triangulating different perspectives.
As a community built and owned data asset, the Data Hub helps monitor and measure change towards improved wellbeing in our local community.
The Demographics homepage provides an understanding of the events that have led to changes within our population over time. Additional dashboards focus on key areas of community priority including Housing, Employment, Education, and a Healthy Start to Life providing insights into our changing community needs. Further dashboards can be created as our community identify them as valuable to measuring wellbeing.
The Data Hub brings together community voice, research, sector and local insights. It provides a collective understanding of our region's wellbeing, enabling community to design effective, evidence-based social solutions tailored to our unique place-based context.
Buttons on the Data Hub provide access to additional information to assist in understanding the story behind the statistics and its local relevance, including causal factors critical to ensuring the right action is taken for improved community wellbeing outcomes.
Community Voice – the voice of our local community members based on their lived-experience in the region. Qualitative data received from community through community engagement.
Research – evidence from external sources to support data findings. Validation of the importance or the statistical value of the data, as an indicator of other outcomes eg social determinants of health and wellbeing.
Local Insights – interpretation of the data or insights including correlations between statistics and causal factors, collated from a mix of correlating data sources and local commentary.
Sector Insights – observations and data provided by local practitioners working closest to the topic eg social services, real estate agents and housing supports.
Triangulating multiple qualitative and quantitative data sources provides different perspectives on the same topic and helps validate local interpretation of the statistics. The additional insights help identify and understand changes resulting from local events and impacts on our community.
The Data Hub provides centralised access to more than 400 data sets relevant to our community, offering insights that can inform where we collectively focus our efforts, and enabling us to monitor and evaluate progress towards our community identified wellbeing goals.
In addition to publicly visible data, the Data Hub can offer privately accessed dashboards to be shared between identified stakeholders. Locally collected data, such as community participation or client presentation numbers, can be ingested for private or public viewing.
Data on the Data Hub represents the Gladstone Local Government Area (LGA) with comparisons to Queensland data. The Dashboards offer the ability to compare data for specific locations within the Gladstone Region to overall Gladstone Region data and Queensland data.
Data for Statistical Area 2 (SA2) locations can be added to specific graphs where the data is available within the Data Hub.
Each Dashboard has a ‘Learn More About our Projects’ button for easy access to the Action Plan and Projects page on the GRT website. Community-led projects included in the community-design Gladstone Region Wellbeing Action Plan are regularly updated within these pages, for visibility of the collective efforts of our community to improve wellbeing outcomes for local families and children. In addition to project activity and outcomes, success measures for each project are linked back to data on the Gladstone Region Wellbeing Data Hub for transparent monitoring of progress towards increasing local community wellbeing outcomes.
Check out the new look Gladstone Region Wellbeing Data Hub now! www.gladstoneregiontogether.org.au/datahub
Your feedback can be provided via the ‘Offer Feedback’ button on the Data Hub.
Your feedback and data requests will help continue to make the Data Hub a valuable community asset.
If you have any questions or wish to discuss the Data Hub with one of the GRT Community Support Team, please contact:
P: 07 4970 7382