Customised ABS Census Data by Water Sharing Plan (WSP) regions

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Secondary data are not available from ABS Agricultural and Population censuses for economic indicators and measures at a scale matching the NSW water sharing plan (WSP) regions. NSW DPE – Water purchased customised data for all WSP regions from 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021 ABS censuses.

The dataset contains following anonymised census data for each of the WSP regions:

  • Agricultural commodity data for 2006, 2011, 2016, and 2021
  • Water use data for 2011, 2016 and 2021
  • Gross value of irrigated agricultural production data for 2016 and 2021
  • Employment by industry and occupation for 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021
  • Population by age distribution for 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021
  • Aboriginal population, families, dwellings for 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021
  • Average weekly earnings, full time, part time for 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021
  • Interstate and regional migration (where possible) for 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021
  • Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) including its component scores (subject to high standard errors depending on the size of the custom region) for 2006, 2011 and 2016

Note: File Notes on ABS data by NSW water sharing plan regions.docx provides a comprehensive overview of the data's limitations that must be taken into consideration when using it..

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Field Value
Title Customised ABS Census Data by Water Sharing Plan (WSP) regions
Type
Language
Licence cc-by-nc-nd-4.0
Data Status
Update Frequency notPlanned
Landing Page https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/c7e349a6-080a-4870-99e6-73c307bb8072
Date Published 2023-11-20
Date Updated 2024-06-20
Contact Point
Temporal Coverage 2006-01-01 - 2021-12-31
Geospatial Coverage { "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [ [ [ 141, -37.7 ], [ 141, -28 ], [ 154, -28 ], [ 154, -37.7 ], [ 141, -37.7 ] ] ]}
Jurisdiction
Data Portal Data.NSW
Publisher/Agency NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water