Making Sense of the Census

This week the State Library’s Business Librarians attended a public information seminar at the Australian Bureau of Statistics…

Did you know the ABS want your help with the questions for the 2011 Census?  You can make your contribution by visiting the Census pages of the ABS website – you have till 31st March 2008. There are already 4 free access points to the 2006 Census available on the ABS website:

  • Quickstats
  • Census Tables
  • Mapstats
  • Community Profiles

Soon to come are CData and TableBuilder – allowing more sophisticated manipulation of the Census data.  You can find it all on the Census Data page of the ABS website, and best of all it’s free!