The paper and associated database directly tackle the issue of quantifying economic growth in regions. BTRE derived regional economic activity indices for every Local Government Area in Australia from 1980–81 to 2004–05. The figures are based on Australian Taxation Office individual income data which have been reworked to allow easy comparisons between standard regions and over time.

• Focus on Regions No 3: Taxable Income
  

  ip 054 [PDF: 2.25 MB]
  

• Taxable Income Database [updated 23 Jan 2008]
  
  

  ip 054.xls [XLSX: 4.71 MB]