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Product Summary
What Census Data Can Be Used For
How Census Data Can Be Used
Available Demography
Data Format
Pricing
Available Topics

PRODUCT SUMMARY   

Census Data is collected every 5 years by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, a Federal Government department. The data collected contains a wide variety of topics including Age, Income, Ethnicity, Dwelling type, Family type etc It is therefore the most accurate way to map, plot or analyise the demography of the general population of Australia.

This data can be purchased and used either in conjunction with your own data, or on its own to provide your business with a greater understanding of the general public with which it is dealing. It can be used to help aim specific advertising campaigns at the right audience, find locations for new branch offices or help explain why some sites are performing better than others.

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WHAT CENSUS DATA CAN BE USED FOR   

Census data can be used to tell you all sorts of things such as:

All of these facts can be used to give you a clear and comprehensive picture of how your business or organisation is situated.

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HOW CENSUS DATA CAN BE USED  

Census data can be used on maps,as graphs and tables behind designated areas.
It can also be mapped on its own for demographic observations of the data.
As it comes in ASCII Text (CSV) format it is easily converted into most database and spreadsheet packages.

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AVAILABLE DEMOGRAPHY

Census data can be purchased for either a single state, multiple states or Nationally.  Different States have more postcodes than others, and as it is sold by postcode, the more populous states contain more data.

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DATA FORMAT

Census data is supplied in a Comma Separated Variable (CSV text) format, this can be easily converted into a readable format for all of the large commercial database and spreadsheet packages.

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PRICING    

The pricing of Census Data depends on the number of "cells" you purchase.  The number of cells is calculated, by multiplying the number of postcodes in the state(s) required by the number of cells in the table.  A table for a single state can range between $35 and $315, whereas that same tables for the National data can cost between $68 and $557.

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AVAILABLE TOPICS   

Here is a complete list of the available census topics:

  1. SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS
  2. STATE OF USUAL RESIDENCE ON CENSUS NIGHT BY SEX
  3. AGE BY SEX
  4. AGE BY REGISTERED MARITAL STATUS BY SEX
  5. BIRTHPLACE (COUNTRIES) BY SEX
  6. BIRTHPLACE (REGIONS) BY SEX
  7. BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER BY BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER
  8. LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME BY SEX
  9. PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH BY YEAR OF ARRIVAL
  10. RELIGION BY SEX
  11. TYPE OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION ATTENDING (FULL-TIME/PART-TIME) BY SEX
  12. AGE LEFT SCHOOL BY SEX
  13. WEEKLY INDIVIDUAL INCOME BY AGE BY SEX
  14. DWELLING STRUCTURE BY TENURE TYPE
  15. DWELLING STRUCTURE
  16. DWELLING STRUCTURE BY DWELLING LOCATION
  17. QUALIFICATION (HIGHEST) FIELD BY QUALIFICATION (HIGHEST) LEVEL BY SEX
  18. AGE BY LABOUR FORCE STATUS (FULL-TIME/PART-TIME) BY SEX
  19. INDUSTRY BY AGE BY SEX
  20. OCCUPATION BY AGE BY SEX
  21. METHOD OF TRAVEL TO WORK BY SEX
  22. FAMILY TYPE AND RELATIONSHIP IN HOUSEHOLD BY AGE
  23. HOUSEHOLD TYPE BY WEEKLY HOUSEHOLD INCOME
  24. FAMILY TYPE BY WEEKLY FAMILY INCOME
  25. HOUSEHOLD TYPE AND FAMILY TYPE BY TENURE TYPE AND LANDLORD TYPE
  26. HOUSEHOLD TYPE AND FAMILY TYPE BY NUMBER OF PERSONS (USUALLY RESIDENT)
  27. DWELLING STRUCTURE BY HOUSEHOLD TYPE AND FAMILY TYPE
  28. DWELLING STRUCTURE BY NUMBER OF PERSONS (USUALLY RESIDENT)
  29. HOUSEHOLD TYPE AND FAMILY TYPE BY NUMBER OF MOTOR VEHICLES
  30. WEEKLY HOUSEHOLD INCOME BY MONTHLY HOUSING LOAN REPAYMENT
  31. WEEKLY HOUSEHOLD INCOME BY WEEKLY RENT
  32. SELECTED MEDIANS

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