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ABS Census - Collection District Master File (CD) 1981

Created 04/05/2025

Updated 04/05/2025

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The 1981 Census Collection District Master File (CDMF) contains counts of dwellings and persons, area and geographic codes for every Collection District (CD) in Australia for 1981. The geographic data include the latitude and longitude and the Commonwealth electoral division of the CD. Census counts were based on place of enumeration on census night which; includes overseas visitors; excludes Australians overseas; and excludes adjustment for under-enumeration. The data is by Census Collection District 1981 boundaries. Periodicity: 5-Yearly. This data is ABS data (cat. no. 2103.0 & original geographic boundary cat. no. 1261.0.30.001) used with permission from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The tabular data was processed and supplied to AURIN by the Australian Data Archives. The cleaned, high resolution 1981 geographic boundaries are available from data.gov.au. For more information please refer to "Making Sense of Census 1981".

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Title ABS Census - Collection District Master File (CD) 1981
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/c9abda82-203f-4e3d-b222-18ce9c272adf
Remote Last Updated 06/03/2025
Contact Point
Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Australian Bureau of Statistics
test@email.loc
Reference Period 06/03/2025
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        96.82,
        -43.74
      ],
      [
        159.11,
        -43.74
      ],
      [
        159.11,
        -9.14
      ],
      [
        96.82,
        -9.14
      ],
      [
        96.82,
        -43.74
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network "ABS Census - Collection District Master File (CD) 1981". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.aurin.org.au/dataset/au-govt-abs-census-collection-district-master-file-1981-na