Auditor-General’s Results of 2017–18 Audits: Local Government

The raw data supports our interactive visualisation tool dashboard which summarises the financial statement data for Victoria’s 79 councils for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 financial years.We grouped councils into five cohorts based on size, demographics and funding:• metropolitan—predominately urban in character and located within Melbourne’s densely populated urban core• interface—one of the nine municipalities that form a ring around metropolitan Melbourne• regional city—urban and partly rural in character• large shire—a municipality with more than 16 000 inhabitants that is predominantly rural in character• small shire—a municipality with less than 16 000 inhabitants that is predominantly rural in character.The cohorts are consistent with Local Government Victoria’s classification of council types.

本原始数据集可支撑我们的交互式可视化工具仪表盘，该仪表盘汇总了维多利亚州79个地方政府委员会2016-2017及2017-2018财政年度的财务报表数据。我们依据规模、人口结构与资金来源，将各地方政府委员会划分为五大类别：
• 都市型（metropolitan）：以城镇风貌为主要特征，坐落于墨尔本人口稠密的城市核心区域
• 过渡型（interface）：环绕墨尔本都市圈的九个自治市之一
• 区域城市型（regional city）：兼具城镇与部分乡村风貌
• 大型郡级（large shire）：居民人数超过16000、以乡村风貌为主的自治市
• 小型郡级（small shire）：居民人数不足16000、以乡村风貌为主的自治市
上述分类标准与维多利亚州地方政府（Local Government Victoria）的委员会类型划分规则保持一致。