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Census of Population and Housing

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The national census, released as tables and DataPacks down to small statistical areas.

100 usability score
out of 100 — see method
Statistical Area Level 1 and above granularity
the level it is published at
Every five years update frequency
never last checked by us
availability changes without notice

Details

PublisherAustralian Bureau of Statistics
Availabilityopen
Formatcsv
Licencenot recorded
Coverage fromnot recorded
Last updated at sourcenot recorded
Costfree
Confidencereported

Questions this bears on

None recorded yet. A dataset with no question attached is a holding nobody has found a use for — which is itself worth knowing, and sometimes means we simply have not asked the right question of it.

Notes

Small-area counts are perturbed to protect confidentiality, which is a genuine and well-founded constraint rather than an obstruction. This register records that distinction deliberately: identifiable is not a criticism.

Sources

  1. Census and Statistics Act 1905 (Cth)