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⌖ Location – by state/territory
⌖ Location – by state/territory
⌖ Location – by rurality
⌖ Location – by rurality
⟺ Combined supply–demand
⟺ Combined supply–demand
Do the numbers look a bit small? It's because...:
Most optometrists do not switch jobs every year
1-in-7 jobs are not advertised
Optometrists work ~4-days/week
Job ads do not separate job growth vs turnover
Rurality...:
Metropolitan = MM1;
Non-metropolitan = regional to very remote = MM2-7
Data provenance and use
Supply:
Demand:
Geography and adjustments:
Trend estimation:
Scenario modelling:
Data availability and updates:
- Supply is estimated using Optometry Board of Australia quarterly general registration counts and National Health Workforce Dataset (NHWDS) allied health workforce annual releases
- NHWDS estimates are restricted to active, practising clinicians and are converted to clinical full-time equivalent (FTE) using average weekly clinical hours (updated each year)
Demand:
- Demand is estimated using Phoropter Free Fridays (PFF) job-advertisement data (weekly), Services Australia Medicare Item Reports (annual service volumes), and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) population estimates (annual)
- Medicare services are converted to hours billed using consult-time assumptions from a 2025 workforce modelling report (28.5 minutes comprehensive, 15 minutes short, 60 minutes contact lens, 10 minutes short telehealth)
Geography and adjustments:
- All analyses are stratified and, where specified by the source data, adjusted by year and geography (state/territory, Primary Health Network [PHN], and/or Modified Monash Model [MMM])
- ABS population is provided at state level; PHN and MMM population denominators are derived by concording ABS SA2 geography to PHN/MMM using Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) correspondence files
- Where relevant (e.g., Medicare hours billed), estimates are normalised to local workforce participation by benchmarking to 38 hours/week (full-time) and subtracting leave allowances expressed in weeks of local average clinical hours (annual leave: 4× weekly hours; personal/sick and carer’s leave: 2× weekly hours)
Trend estimation:
- Yearly change is estimated using a 3-year rolling log-linear regression of the relevant series
- Regression relationships are assumed linear for parsimony unless otherwise specified
Scenario modelling:
- Hypothetical workforce reallocation models shift workforce distributions to equate supply and demand proportions across geographies
- Years of workforce relief is modelled using a logit drift framework parameterised by observed yearly change rates
Data availability and updates:
- All datasets are publicly available; Phoropter Free Fridays (PFF) job-advertisement data are available upon reasonable request
- Unauthorised reuse of PFF data is prohibited; external use requires prior written permission
- Outputs (including all graphs) are refreshed as new public releases become available
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