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Data Change: Australia subnational - National Regional Profile 2011-2016
Wednesday, 24 Oct 2018 08:27 ET
By Jacky Cheung
Summary
September 2018 -- The latest edition of National Regional Profile has the usual changes, plus the geographic classification has been advanced from ASGS 2011 to ASGS 2016 (4,486 annual series 2010 to 2016, replaced by 4,519 from 2011).
Detail

The National Regional Profile (NRP) is a consolidated report produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics from ABS and non-ABS datasets. It covers demography, households, personal income, labor force status, and residential construction permits, with geographic granularity to the SA4 level. The time series are annual and span five years; the report is produced once a year, and its corpus is subject to change.

Regarding the change in geographic classification, the main difference between ASGS 2011 and 2016 is at the SA4 geo level, where Western Australia - Outback (508) has been split into Outback - North (510) and Outback - South (511).

In response, we have:

  1. Archived our previous extract (series 2010 to 2016) by renaming with an "_16" specifier, marking metadata as "discontinued," and segregating in the catalog.
  2. Created replacements.

Active dataset properties:

  • Measurements: Varied
  • Geo coverage:
    • Country
    • All 8 states/territories (IAUS_^^)
    • All 8 rest-of-state areas (IAUS_GR^^)
    • All 7 greater capital area (IAUS_MG^^)
    • Australia Capital Territory (IAUS_MACT)
    • 89 select SA4 areas (IAUS_nnn)
  • Native frequency: Annual
  • Start date: 2011

The active series reside in the historical catalog (Australia » National Regional Profile » 2011 - present) and the predecessors under the associated discontinued node. They include, for example:

  • HSAVPMTPR_11UA.IAUS_121 = [DISCONTINUED] Building Approvals: Average value of private sector houses, (Ths. AUD, NSA) - for Sydney - North Sydney and Hornsby
  • LWEOTHQ_11UA.IAUS_504   = [DISCONTINUED] Estimates of Personal Income: Source of Income - Other income earners, (persons, NSA) - for Perth - North East
  • VSQHHD1UA.IAUS          = Vital statistics: Count of households - Lone person households, (#) - for Australia
  • YNQPBSUUA.IAUS_QN       = Personal income: Own unincorporated business income - Earners, (#) - for Queensland
  • HSQPMTTPAPTUA.IAUS_105  = Real estate: Building approvals - All types of work - Private sector - Dwellings [excl. houses], (#) - for Far West and Orana

Because catalog locations are subject to change, the upper-right search box on DataBuffet.com provides a "find in catalog" that accepts a mnemonic.

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