AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Synthetic Priority Investment Approach Data, 2001 - 2015

The Australian Priority Investment Approach to Welfare (PIA) policy initiative was established as part of the 2015-16 Budget, following a comprehensive review of Australia’s welfare system. The initiative uses data analysis to identify groups at risk of long-term welfare dependence. As part of the PIA, in September 2016, the Minister for Social Services announced a plan to allow limited public access to PIA data. 

A synthetic version of the PIA data has been created to provide access to administrative data for general users while maintaining the privacy of individuals. The synthetic PIA data relates to individuals who have made a claim for, are receiving or have received payments or services administered under social security law. This includes benefit types such as Aged Pension, Youth Allowance, Newstart and Disability Support Pension. The synthetic data contains a limited number of variables suitable for research, while maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of individuals. The synthetic dataset has been created by applying a privacy-preserving algorithm on the original PIA data. This process results in each person’s true data being modified such that the overall group data very closely represents that of the original dataset, yet no one individual’s data remains in the synthetic dataset. That is, the dataset is a combination of synthetic records that, when combined, reflect the shape of the original dataset. 

The synthetic PIA data contains a series of point-in-time quarterly snapshots dated from July 2001 to June 2015. This results in 56 separate quarters of administrative data. Each quarter includes 31 variables (listed below) that are consistent across all quarters. There are approximately 5 million individual records represented in each quarter. 

The synthetic PIA data is available via free registration at Dataverse: https://dataverse.ada.edu.au/dataverse/pia_synthetic. 



Tags: Administrative Data, Age Pension, DSS, Disability Support Pension, Newstart, PIA, Social Services, Synthetic Data, Youth Allowance
Organization: Department of Social Services
Sydney maps 1917

    

Produced by the NSW Dept. of Lands in 1917, maps of municipalities of
Annandale, Ashfield, Balmain, Botany, Canterbury, Darlington, The Glebe,
Hurstville, Kogarah, Lane Cove, Leichhardt, Marrickville, Mascot, Mosman,
Newtown, North Sydney, Petersham, Randwick, Rockdale, Willoughby. Shows
reclamations, special leases, resumptions and acquisitions by the Crown,
volume & folio or date of Crown grant of portions as insets. Trig. stations,
railways, schools.



Tags: australianhistory, historicaldata, history, libraries, libraryhack2011, maps, nationalandstatelibrariesaustralasia, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, suburbs, sydney
Organization: State Library of New South Wales
Sydney bond store maps 1894

    

26 maps of bond stores and warehouses around Port Jackson and Darling Harbour.
The goods entering into harbours remained in the bond stores until importers
paid the duty on goods. Published in 1894.



Tags: australianhistory, darlingharbour, historicaldata, history, libraryhack2011, maps, nationalandstatelibrariesaustralasia, portjackson, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, sydney, warehouses
Organization: State Library of New South Wales
Survey of Employers' Recruitment Experiences

The Australian Government Department of Jobs and Small Business publishes a range of labour market data on its Labour Market Information Portal (lmip.gov.au) and jobs.gov.au site (jobs.gov.au).

The links below provides insights into recruitment from the Department of Jobs and Small Business Survey of Employers' Recruitment Experiences. Each year, more than 10,000 employers provide information about their local jobs market, including competition for vacancies. The survey results identify what employers are looking for in applicats and how job seekers can better connect with employment opportunities.

Tags: apprentice, career choices, education, employability skills, employer insights, employment, indigenous, job seeker, labour demand, local jobs market, mature age, recruitment conditions, regional labour markets, retrenchment, work experience, youth
Organization: Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Victorian Dryland Salinity Assessment 2000 – dc16cac_agric_cost.xls

    

Estimation of agricultural gross margins lost as the result of shallow water
tables and salinity in each Catchment Management Authority region

See [further metadata](http://data.daff.gov.au/anrdl/metadata_files/pa_dsa__r__s
km00111a14.xml) for more detail.



Tags: environmentandnaturalresourcemanagement, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, indicators, land, salinity, water, waterandirrigation
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Survey data collected from Core E53-10, located on the edge of the South Tasman rise

Most globally linked climatic records dealing with continuous longterm change are derived from the ocean sea-floors where sedimentation of microplankton is accumulated on a time scale of several centimetres per 1000 years. Variations in microfossil records over time are used as proxies for changes in the oceans.

Core E53-10 was sampled in April 1993 while visiting the Antarctic Research Facility at Florida State University. Preliminary diatom analysis of prepared slides indicate that the core contains REWORKED species. The presence of Actinocyclus ingens, Hemidiscus karstenii, Stephanopyxis spp, Denticulopsis spp and other non-Holocene/late Quaternary species were encountered throughout all the samples examined in the first two meters of the core. Upon this observation, the core was abandoned for further study. Independent results of the zinc-silica ratio analysis performed on sub-samples also indicates an anomalous response, which is interpreted to be resultant of the reworked material incorporated in the core.

This region appears to be under a sedimentary reworked environment imposed by the drop off to the north of the South Tasman Rise.

Tags: Biosphere, Diatoms, E53-10, Eltanin, Microbiota, Microfossils, Paleoclimate, Reworked species
Organization: Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition

The Surface Geology of Australia 1:1M scale dataset (2012 edition) is a seamless national coverage of outcrop and surficial geology, compiled for use at or around 1:1 million scale.  The data maps outcropping bedrock geology and unconsolidated or poorly consolidated regolith material covering bedrock.  Geological units are represented as polygon and line geometries, and are attributed with information regarding stratigraphic nomenclature and hierarchy, age, lithology, and primary data source.  The dataset also contains geological contacts, structural features such as faults and shears, and miscellaneous supporting lines like the boundaries of water and ice bodies.
The 2012 dataset has been updated from the previous 2010 data by updating geological unit data to 2012 information in the Australian Stratigraphic Units Database (http://www.ga.gov.au/products-services/data-applications/reference-databases/stratigraphic-units.html), incorporating new published mapping in the Northern Territory and Queensland, and correcting errors or inconsistent data identified in the previous edition, particularly in the Phanerozoic geology of Western Australia.  The attribute structure of the dataset has also been revised to be more compatible with the GeoSciML data standard, published by the IUGS Commission for Geoscience Information.
The first edition of this national dataset was first released in 2008, with map data compiled largely from simplifying and edgematching existing 1:250 000 scale geological maps.  Where these maps were not current, more recent source maps ranging in scale from 1:50 000 to 1:1 million were used.  In some areas where the only available geological maps were old and poorly located, some repositioning of mapping using recent satellite imagery or geophysics was employed.

Tags: AU, Earth Sciences, GIS Dataset, National, National dataset, WMS, geology, mapping, regolith, web map service
Organization: Geoscience Australia
Subtidal seagrass distribution, 1994 - 1995 (MTSRF-1-1-5, AIMS, Source: QDPI-F)

Pattern of seagrass distribution in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area

Seagrasses in waters deeper than 15m in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area adjacent to the Queensland coast were surveyed using a camera and dredge towed for 4-6 minutes at 1,429 sites spanning from 10ºS to 25ºS and from inshore out to the reef edge up to 120nm from the coast. At each site seagrass presence, species and biomass were recorded together with depth, sediment, sechii, algae and epibenthos, and proximity to reefs. Seagrasses in this region extend down to 60 m water depths and are difficult to map other than by generating distributions from point source data. Statistical modelling of the seagrass distribution suggests 40,000 km^2 of the bottom has a probability of some seagrass being present. There is strong spatial variability driven in part by the constraint of the Great Barrier Reef¿s long, thin shape and physical processes associated with the land and ocean. We map the four main species, Halophila ovalis, H. spinulosa, H. decipiens, and H. tricostata. Distributions of H. ovalis and H. spinulosa show strong depth and sediment effects, whereas H. decipiens, and H. tricostata are only weakly correlated with environmental variables but show strong spatial patterns. Distributions of all species are correlated most closely with depth and the proportion of medium sized sediment.

As part of the Reef Atlas project (now the eAtlas) the seagrass observations were interpolated over the whole GBR by Glenn De'ath using Generalized Additive Models with a Quasibinomial fit. This produced a gridded version of the dataset and is available as a KML and ASCII grid file.


Data Units: Probability of occurrence (0 to 1).

Tags: marine
Organization: TropWATER, James Cook University (JCU)
Stocktake of Australian Government Subsidised Aged Care Places

The Stocktake of Australian Government Subsidised Aged Care Places provides a snapshot of the number of operational and allocated aged care places in Australia each year, as at 30 June. These files are updated annually. The results of the stocktake can be found on the Department of Health website at the link below.

Tags: aged care, aged care data, stocktake of aged care places
Organization: Department of Health and Aged Care
State significant species

This layer is displayed on the Environmental significance - priority species overlay map in City Plan version 7 as 'State significant species', and identifies essential habitat and recorded locations of threatened wildlife and special least concern animals under the Nature Conservation Act 1992 and Vegetation Management Act 1999. The layer is also available in Council’s City Plan interactive mapping tool. For further information on City Plan, please visit http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/planning-and-building/city-plan-2015-19859.html

Tags: City Plan, City of Gold Coast, CoGC, Environment, Environment, Environmental Significance, State Significant Priority Species
Organization: City of Gold Coast
Squamate Reptile Phylogenetic Endemism 0.2 Degree Grid

The Australian Natural Heritage Assessment Tool (ANHAT) is a map-supported database developed by the Department's Wildlife Heritage and Marine Division. It helps identify and prioritise areas for their natural heritage significance, focusing on biodiversity. Significance is determined based on rigorous comparisons of specific natural values, and ANHAT is an important tool to aid an evolutionary understanding of Australia's biodiversity.

ANHAT phylogenetic endemism analysis for squamate reptiles. This shows a phylogenetic endemism  score for each 0.2 degree grid square for squamate reptiles.CC - Attribution (CC BY)
This data has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence. More information can be found at http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/creative-commons.
Suited for use at regional, state or national level only. Data are too coarse for use at a local level

Tags: Applications, ECOLOGY_Biodiversity, FAUNA Native_Distribution, FAUNA Vertebrates_Distribution, FAUNA_Distribution
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Squamate Reptile Phylogenetic Diversity 0.2 Degree Grid

The Australian Natural Heritage Assessment Tool (ANHAT) is a map-supported database developed by the Department's Wildlife Heritage and Marine Division. It helps identify and prioritise areas for their natural heritage significance, focusing on biodiversity. Significance is determined based on rigorous comparisons of specific natural values, and ANHAT is an important tool to aid an evolutionary understanding of Australia's biodiversity.

ANHAT phylogenetic diversity analysis for squamate reptiles. This shows a phylogenetic diversity  score for each 0.2 degree grid square for squamate reptiles.CC - Attribution (CC BY)
This data has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence. More information can be found at http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/creative-commons.
Suited for use at regional, state or national level only. Data are too coarse for use at a local level

Tags: Applications, ECOLOGY_Biodiversity, FAUNA Native_Distribution, FAUNA Vertebrates_Distribution, FAUNA_Distribution
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Spatial variation in fish abundances in the Lord Howe Island Marine Park.

The abundances of recruit, juvenile and adult fishes of 36 common species in the Lord Howe Island lagoon system were estimated in November and December 2003. Twenty hard substrata reef sites were sampled by SCUBA divers swimming along three virtual transects per site. Virtual transects were measured using a sonar navigation system (see Patterson et al 2007 for details). Divers recorded species and life history stage of each individual based on size or other characteristics such as colouration or morphology.

Tags: Biosphere, Community Structure, Ecological Dynamics, Fish, Life History, Lord Howe Island Marine Park, Marine Biology, Marine Reserves, Oceans, Zoology
Organization: Environs Kimberley
Spatially variable effects of copper on sessile invertebrates across a marina

A manipulative field experiment was used to assess the spatial variation in the effect of copper on sessile invertebrates within a marina in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. Sessile invertebrate assemblages were grown on perspex plates for 6 weeks and then dosed with plaster blocks impregnated with copper sulfate. After 1 week of exposure to the copper the plates were collected and the numbers of sponges, polychaetes, barnacles, bryozoans and ascidians were counted on each plate. The variation in abundances of individual taxa were estimated at spatial scales of metres. Water flow was measured as a possible explanation for the variation in the effects of copper. 

Three of the 20 sessile invertebrates species showed significant small scale variation in the effect of copper. The effects of copper on these species varied in magnitude and direction. Water flow did not explain the variation in the effects of copper. It is suggested that variations in organic or inorganic compounds or in pH levels may provide alternative explanations for the spatially variable effects of copper in the marina.

Tags: Biosphere, Community Structure, Ecological Dynamics, Marine Biology, Marine Invertebrates, Oceans, Port Phillip Bay, Sandringham Yacht Club
Organization: School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
Spatial Distributions of Plankton in Shark Bay, Western Australia - 1983

During June 1983, the abundance and diversity of zooplankton were sampled at a series of locations though Shark Bay, Western Australia.  High-salinity experiments were also conducted on certain zooplankton to determine abundance patterns for
individual species.

Tags: Appendicularia, Biosphere, Bivalvia, Bryozoa, Calanoida, Chaetognatha, Cladocera, Community Structure, Cyclopoida, Decapoda, Echinodermata, Ecological Dynamics, Forminifera, Harpacticoida, Medusae, Opisthobranchia, Ostracoda, Poecilostomatoida, Polychaeta, Prosobranchia, Pteropoda, Thaliacea, Zoology, Zooplankton
Organization: Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies (RTC), San Francisco State University (SFSU)
Spatial distribution and temporal shifts in the biology of Holothuria whitmaei (sea cucumber) at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia - Series Summary

Data were collected to:
- i) investigate the spatial distribution and temporal changes in the biology of H.whitmaei (Bell, 1887)(from the perspective of activity, feeding and reproduction), and,
- ii) provide an overall synthesis of the results, whilst placing an emphasis on the strategies that may have facilitated the persistence of H. whitmaei in outer reef environments; zones which due to their physical and oceanographic characteristics, could be considered unfavourable for deposit feeding, broadcast spawners.

Tags: 25 416033, Aquatic Habitat, Biosphere, Ecological Dynamics, Feeding Habitat, Holothuria whitmaei, Marine Biology, Marine Invertebrates, Oceans, Range Changes, Reef Habitat, black teatfish
Organization: BMT Oceanica
Southern Surveyor XBT Data Overview 2007- 2012

This dataset contains the processed Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) data collected on Australia's Marine National Facility (MNF) RV Southern Surveyor between 2007 and 2012. XBT data typically comprises temperature and depth readings relayed to the surface at intervals of 0.1 seconds as the probe passes through the top few hundred metres of the ocean. This dataset has been QCed by the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research's (CMAR's) Ocean Observing Networks (OON) group. The data can be retrieved via CMAR Data Trawler, please see link below. The data is also available via the international National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP) (Southern Surveyor platform code: 09SS and call sign: VLHJ) and  Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN).

Organization: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere - Information and Data Centre
Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 10/2005 - Voyage of discovery - benthic biodiversity of the deep continental shelf and slope in Australia's "South West Region"

The scientific objectives for the survey were split across two voyages (SS07/2005 for leg 1 and SS10/2005 for leg 2). The first leg was to map and visually survey (video) the upper continental slope (and at selected sites transects from the outer shelf to the mid-slope) at regular intervals of 1deg latitude; the second leg was to targeted sample the surveyed locations to document the benthic biodiversity. Epibenthic megafauna was sampled in 123 stations using the epibenthic sled Sherman and a beamtrawl at roughly 1 degree intervals from Bald Island in southern WA to Barrow Island (northern WA), at 100 and 400m depth; additional depths (200m, 700m 1000m) were sampled at targeted 'transect sites'. Invertebrate specimens were photographed and lodged with Australian Museums for identification, focused on sponges, corals, echinoderms, crustaceans, molluscs and ascidians. To date (Sept. 2014) we are aware of 27 taxonomic revisions or descriptions have been published from this collection. Fishes were only collected by chance, they are lodged with the CSIRO Fish Collection. The data of the biological samples is described here.

Organization: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere - Information and Data Centre
Southern Surveyor Voyage SS05/2007 - Voyage of discovery - Video and seabed images of of the deep continental shelf and slope in Australia's "North West Region"

The overall aims were to provide data on the distribution of deep seabed habitats and fauna that are amenable to scientific hypothesis testing, can be immediately applied to marine resource management processes, and that enable strategic development of tools and techniques for understanding the processes that maintain deep sea biodiversity. This work was to support the process of NWR Estate inventory and management performance assessment by providing interpreted benthic habitat maps, faunal inventories, distribution maps and conservation values. Data will be collected at scientific reference sites from potential MPA areas that can be re-visited for monitoring purposes in the future. Sampling along environmental gradients (geographic range and depth) in this section of Australia's coast will also provide the opportunity to evaluate biogeographic hypotheses. Further refinement of predictive methods for identifying seabed habitat types, initially developed in temperate and cool-temperate environments, will be enabled by data collection from this tropical location in Australia. We intended to highlight the importance of this underlying science as a modern 'Voyage of Discovery' given the likely significance of the findings in terms of Australia's biodiversity and its biogeography and evolution. (From Voyage Plan)

This record describes the video and still imagery collected with the CSIRO deep-towed camera system. Imagery has not been systematically annotated or scored.  The associated videos and still images have been archived as described in MarLIN record 14436 'Benthic Habitats Video Image Archive'

Organization: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere - Information and Data Centre
Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 05/2007 - Voyage of discovery - Sediments of the deep continental shelf and slope in Australia's "North West Region"

The overall aims were to provide data on the distribution of deep seabed habitats and fauna that are amenable to scientific hypothesis testing, can be immediately applied to marine resource management processes, and that enable strategic development of tools and techniques for understanding the processes that maintain deep sea biodiversity. This work was to support the process of NWR Estate inventory and management performance assessment by providing interpreted benthic habitat maps, faunal inventories, distribution maps and conservation values. Data will be collected at scientific reference sites from potential MPA areas that can be re-visited for monitoring purposes in the future. Sampling along environmental gradients (geographic range and depth) in this section of Australia's coast will also provide the opportunity to evaluate biogeographic hypotheses. Further refinement of predictive methods for identifying seabed habitat types, initially developed in temperate and cool-temperate environments, will be enabled by data collection from this tropical location in Australia. We intended to highlight the importance of this underlying science as a modern "Voyage of Discovery" given the likely significance of the findings in terms of Australia's biodiversity and its biogeography and evolution. (From Voyage Plan).  Sediment samples were divided into two samples: an elutrition sample for macroinvertebrates that was sent to Robin Wilson at MV for analysis and a sediment sample to be analysed by Geoscience Australia.

Organization: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere - Information and Data Centre