Bowen and Galilee Basins Population Report, 2011
This report contains a range of population and accommodation data for the Bowen and Galilee Basin regions, based on surveys of accommodation providers and the resource industry conducted by OESR in 2011. In keeping with previous editions of the Bowen Basin Population Report, published annually since 2006, the report’s focus is on quantifying the number of fly-in/fly-out and drive-in/drive-out (FIFO/DIDO) workers living in the region and their use of commercial accommodation. The 2011 edition is expanded to cover the Galilee Basin and also includes population projections for the first time.
The report provides estimates of the number of non-resident workers on-shift in local government areas (LGAs), statistical local areas (SLAs) and selected localities in the Bowen and Galilee Basins as at July 2011. These non-resident worker populations are then added to ABS resident population estimates to give a full-time equivalent (FTE) population, providing a better indication of total demand for infrastructure and services in these regions.
The 2011 report also presents considerable additional information, including FTE population projections for Bowen and Galilee Basin LGAs to 2018, FTE population projections for the town of Moranbah, an examination of the characteristics of mining workforces in the Bowen Basin region, a study of non-resident workers’ use of commercial accommodation with an emphasis on worker accommodation villages (WAVs), and a framework for understanding the population impacts of future project workforces in the Galilee Basin.
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