The creative class thesis—that towns need to attract engineers, architects, artists, and people in other creative occupations to compete in today's economy—may be particularly relevant to rural communities, which tend to lose much of their talent when young adults leave. The ERS creative class codes indicate a county's share of population employed in occupations that require "thinking creatively." Variables used to construct the ERS creative class measure include number and percent employed in creative class occupations and a metro/nonmetro indicator for all counties, 1990, 2000, and 2007-11. A break-out of employment in the arts is included.

This dataset contains a snapshot of commuting patterns for Census day 2011 (Tuesday 9th August). It is a complete enumeration via a self-completion Census form. The scope of Journey to Work (JTW) 2011 is employed persons aged 15 years and over, who were employed the week before Census night, and with a workplace in NSW. Journey to Work data may produce slightly different counts to those obtained directly from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for the same geographic level due to: * ABS confidentialising process is applied to the data that Transport Performance and Analytics (TPA) purchases (randomisation of small cells) * Further validation and adjustment of the data undertaken by Transport Performance and Analytics TPA * Imputation of records of incomplete addresses to eliminate locality ‘dump’ codes ABS data is used with permission from the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This dataset contains a snapshot of commuting patterns for Census day 2006 (Tuesday 8th August). It is a complete enumeration via a self-completion Census form. The scope of Journey to Work (JTW) 2006 is employed persons aged 15 years and over, who were employed the week before Census night, and with a workplace in NSW. JTW data may produce slightly different counts to those obtained directly from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for the same geographic level due to: * ABS confidentialising process is applied to the data that Transport Performance and Analytics (TPA) purchases (randomisation of small cells) * Further validation and adjustment of the data undertaken by Transport Performance and Analytics TPA * Imputation of records of incomplete addresses to eliminate locality ‘dump’ codes ABS data is used with permission from the Australian Bureau of Statistics