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The second major set of data from the 2011 Census was released at the end of October. This release contains information for all geographies [includ...

The second major set of data from the 2011 Census was released at the end of October. This release contains information for all geographies [includ...

Have you ever wondered how information on Australia’s LGBTIQ populations is collected? This paper provides an overview of the different data sour...

SEIFA stands for Socio-economic Indexes for Areas. SEIFA has been designed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to measure the socioeconom...

The aim of this paper is to explain what SEIFA is and how it is constructed. This is followed by a short commentary related to a series of maps of ...

The housing landscape of Greater Western Sydney is constantly evolving.

We at WESTIR are generally a curious lot and one of our musings was how the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) counts asylum seekers held in det...

In 2011; 1,140,706 persons in Greater Western Sydney (GWS) indicated being born in Australia. Another 782,989 persons, meanwhile, indicated being b...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) undertakes the Census of Population and Housing every five years to count all persons in Australia on Cen...

According to the ABS (2011) income is a combination of all receipts received by the household or by individual members of the household.