Data Dashboard

This dashboard is designed for SaCSA’s stakeholders across the Arts, Personal Services, Retail, Tourism and Hospitality sectors. This includes peak industry bodies, policymakers, educators, researchers and others with an interest in workforce, training and economic trends in these sectors.

• Use the top bar to navigate to different pages of the dashboard
• Within each page, use the tab buttons to navigate to different data
• Use the filters to select the relevant data. To reveal more granular options, click the chevron. To undo, click the “Clear all filters” button.
• Hover over information buttons to reveal data disclaimers, caveats and explanatory notes

Additional guidance is available within the dashboard itself.

The dashboard can be viewed on mobile devices, but a desktop or laptop provides the best experience.

The dashboard is updated quarterly, where all data that has been released in the interim period will be updated at the same time.

Please note that different data sources have different release schedules, so not all datasets will change in every update.

Power BI does not currently support direct data export from this dashboard. However, users can extract visuals or tabular data using the following methods.

To copy an image

• Use your snipping tool to capture the visual and paste it into your document.

To extract data

• Right-click on a visual and select “Show as a table”
• Use your snipping tool to capture the table and save it as a PDF
• In Excel, go to the Data ribbon, select “Get data”, then “From file” and “From PDF”
• Select the saved PDF and import the table into Excel
• SaCSA is exploring additional options to improve data access for advanced users.

The SaCSA dashboard uses data across the following sources:

Labour Market

• Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Labour Force Detailed
• ABS Tourism Satellite Account
• ABS Quarterly Tourism Statistics
• ABS Jobs in Australia
• ABS Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers (SDAC)
• ABS Characteristics of Employment
• ABS Counts of Australian Businesses
• ABS Census 2021
• JSA Employment Projections
• JSA Internet Vacancy Index
• JSA Occupation Shortage List

Economic

• Australian Taxation Office (ATO) Individual Taxation Statistics
• Bureau of Communications, Arts and Regional Research, Cultural and Creative Activity
• Office for the Arts, Cultural Funding and Participation
• ABS Tourism Satellite Account
• Tourism Research Australia, State Tourism Satellite Account
• ABS Australian System of National Accounts

Training

• National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) Total VET Activity
• NCVER Apprentices and Trainees
• NCVER VET in Schools
• NCVER VET Qualification Completion Rates
• NCVER Apprentice and Trainee Completion Rates
• NCVER Student Outcomes Survey

Differences between the SaCSA dashboard and other sources are usually explained by variations in:

• the data source,
• the time period,
• the level of aggregation and
• the methodology used in the calculation.

Users should check accompanying data notes and definitions when comparing figures across sources.

For example, for Retail Manager (General), the SaCSA dashboard shows a part-time proportion of 24%, while the JSA website reports 26%. JSA notes that people classified as ‘Employed, away from work’ in the 2021 Census, around 8% of total employment, are excluded from their denominator. The SaCSA dashboard includes these workers, resulting in a different figure.

We welcome feedback on the dashboard, including suggestions for new features, additional data sources or clearer explanations.

If you have ideas or comments, please contact us via our Contact us page.