Population Adjustment Methodology
7. The Department shall adjust population to address—
(a)deprivation in a local government district, by taking the following steps—
(i)application of the employment scores with a 50 percent weighting and income scores with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that community services expenditure is to total expenditure;
(ii)application of the employment scores with a 100 percent weighting, making an adjustment for each of the proportion that economic development expenditure is to total expenditure;
(iii)application of the income scores with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that tourism expenditure is to total expenditure;
(b)an influx of additional population into a local government district, by taking the following steps—
(i)application of tourist bed-nights factors with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that tourism expenditure is to total expenditure;
(ii)application of tourist bed-nights factors with a 50 percent weighting and travel to work factors with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that other cleaning expenditure is to total expenditure; and
(c)sparsity in a local government district, by taking the following step—
application of mid-year population density data with a 25 percent weighting and private household data with a 75 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that waste collection expenditure is to total expenditure.