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A Local-State Government Spatial Data Sharing Partnership

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A <strong>Local</strong>-<strong>State</strong> <strong>Spatial</strong> <strong>Data</strong> <strong>Sharing</strong> <strong>Partnership</strong> Model to Facilitate SDI Development<br />

Table 6.1 Structure of the LGA questionnaire<br />

LGA Questionnaire Component Topics Covered<br />

Part 1: LGA Organisation Number of properties, staffing, ICT capacity, GIS<br />

capacity, management support<br />

Part 2: Policy on Use of <strong>Spatial</strong> <strong>Data</strong> Internal and external policies, cost recovery,<br />

attitudes towards privacy, copyright and legal<br />

liability.<br />

Part 3: Accessing <strong>Spatial</strong> <strong>Data</strong>/ Technology Locating LGA data, technology and mechanisms<br />

to access spatial data<br />

Part 4: About LGA <strong>Spatial</strong> <strong>Data</strong> Importance of property data, use of state<br />

government data, requests for their data,<br />

completeness of their data<br />

Part 5: <strong>Spatial</strong> <strong>Data</strong> Standards and Integration Attitudes towards standards, use of metadata<br />

and level of data integration<br />

Part 6: About People Profile of staff in spatial management area,<br />

organisational change, training<br />

Part 7: Collaboration with organisations Level of collaboration, barriers and drivers,<br />

preferred models, expectations from data<br />

sharing and collaboration<br />

Part 8: Outcomes from Specific <strong>Data</strong> <strong>Sharing</strong><br />

<strong>Partnership</strong>s<br />

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Outcomes in terms of value, improved quality,<br />

improved communication, updates, overall<br />

satisfaction<br />

A total of 103 valid LGA responses were received to the on-line questionnaire giving an<br />

overall response rate of 56%. The statistical analysis of the survey results was undertaken<br />

in SPSS Version 14. The results from the analysis are provided below.<br />

6.2.2 The Organisation and GIS/ICT Capacity<br />

Part 1 of the questionnaire examined a variety of organisational characteristics of LGAs<br />

including, number of properties, staffing, ICT capacity, GIS capacity and management<br />

support.<br />

Size of LGAs<br />

The LGAs across the three states vary dramatically in terms of the number of properties<br />

they manage and their capacity. Table 6.2 provides a summary of the basic statistics of<br />

LGAs surveyed across the three states. The median number of properties of the<br />

Queensland and Tasmanian LGAs was very similar (approximately 10,000 properties),<br />

whilst the median number of properties in the Victorian local governments was almost<br />

three times this size. This difference in size can be attributed to the dramatic<br />

amalgamation of local governments that took place in the 1990s in Victoria which reduced<br />

the number of Victorian LGAs from 210 to 79.

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