Economic Health

August 17th, 2009

Context Statement: Our ability to engage in adequate, meaningful, safe, and rewarding opportunities for work is central to our overall quality of life. The availability of secure work for living wages is essential to our regional economy

List of Proposed Indicators:

  1. Employment rate (core indicator)
  2. Number and proportion of workers by occupation
  3. Number and proportion of workers by industry
  4. Number of people doing unpaid child care work
  5. Unemployment rate/participation rate
  6. Median earnings
  7. Median economic family income
  8. Composition of total income
  9. Percentage of labour force that is self employed
  10. Firms by number of employees
  11. Number of Bed and Breakfasts and Cottages on the Sunshine Coast
  12. Median Employment Income
  13. Percent of Basic Income Assistance Recipients by Age Group

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