Answer To: FIELDWORK ACTIVITY Assessment overview Task Description: Report Due Date: Friday 26 April 2019, 2pm...
Soumi answered on Mar 16 2021
Running Head: FIELDWORK ACTIVITY 1
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FIELDWORK ACTIVITY
FIELD REPORT: REDCLIFFE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
Table of Contents
1) Selection of Location 3
2) Socio-Demographic Profile of Redcliffe in Queensland, Australia 3
3) Observational Walk around Redcliffe to identify the Social, Cultural and Environmental Determinants of Health 5
References 8
1) Selection of Location
The location selected for the fieldwork activity is ‘Redcliffe’ in Queensland, Australia. Redcliffe is a residential suburban area lies in Moreton Bay region in the east of northeast region of Redcliffe peninsula, around 28 kilometres away from Brisbane CBD. It is the central business district for the Redcliffe peninsula and its surrounding suburban areas. It is the part of statistical division of Brisbane. The town gets its name from red cliff point named by the explorer to the Redcliff at woody point. The town has its own aviation airfield called Redcliffe airport.
2) Socio-Demographic Profile of Redcliffe in Queensland, Australia
The total population of the city is 10,373. Among the population, 47.1% are males with the population of 4,888 and 52.9% are females with population of 5484. The median age of the town is 48. There are total 2,655 families live with average number of children per family are approximately 1 (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2013). There are total of 5,357 houses with average people per household is approximately 2. Each house has average weekly household income of $992. Their average median of monthly mortgage repayments is $1,538. The median weekly rent of the housing is $300. The average motor vehicles per house are approximately 2 (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2013).
Children with the age between 0 and 14 made the population around 13.4% and people aged above 65 years made 26.4% of the population. 3598 people are married, 474 are separated whereas 1,364 are divorced, and 775 are widowed. There are 2769 people who are never married in the population. These are registered marital status of the town. In term of social marital status, 3,057 are registered marriage, 827 are de facto marriage while 3919 are unmarried in the town. There are 26.0% of population were attending an educational institution (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2013). Out of these, 21.6% were in primary school, 19% are in secondary school whereas 14.9% in a tertiary or technical institution. There are preschools, government, non-government and catholic primary or secondary schools. Apart from these, there are technical institutes and university for tertiary education. Around 1042 people’s education is not stated (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2013).
Of people aged 15 and above, around 13.9% have completed their year 12 as their highest level of educational attainment. Around 18.3% had completed a certificate III or IV whereas 8.9% had completed their diploma or advanced diploma. 1,101 people are either taking bachelor’s degree level or above. There are many types of ancestry in the area. The major ancestry is English, Australian, Scottish, German and Irish. The most common ancestries in Redcliffe were English 31.3%, Australian 23.2%, Irish 9.6%, Scottish 8.3% and German 4.0% (Census QuickStats, 2016).
6,917 people were born in Australia, 675 in England, 660 in New Zealand, 83 in Scotland, 82 in Philippines and 71 in South Africa. 3,013 people have no religion. They called themselves atheist. 2,097 are catholic, 1,713 are Anglican, 1,252 are not stated and 514 follow uniting church. Christianity is the largest followed religion of the town. Around 63.2% population followed it. Around 83.9% people spoke English at home and it is also the official language of the town. Apart from this, other languages that are spoken at home include Spanish 0.5%, Mandarin 0.5%, Italian 0.4%, Samoan 0.4% and Afrikaans 0.3% (Census QuickStats, 2016).
Around 2,448 people worked full-time in the offices. 1,339 of population worked part-time whereas 227 people worked away from home. Around 425 people are unemployed in the town. There are 4,439 people who are reported to be working as a forced labour. On an average of 55% of population are...