Community Information Summaries
The Community Information Summaries describes the communities in Australia by country of birth, and their descendants who are living in Australia. These summaries present a broad range of demographic and socio-economic characteristics from the 2006 Census of Population and Housing. Most have a brief historical background on the community. The summaries are available for the first 100 countries of birth and are in the following formats:
- Community Information Summaries: HTML
Text only, no graphs. - Community Information Summary: PDF
Formatted with graphs, in printer-friendly form.
Data items
- Historical Background
- Geographic Distribution
- Age and Sex Distributions
- Ancestry
- Language
- Religion
- Year of Arrival
- Citizenship
- Median Income
- Educational Qualifications
- Employment Characteristics
Explanatory notes
Notes on the data used for the Community Information Summaries.
See: Community Information Summaries: Explanatory notes
Bibliography of publication sources
A number of publications were used as input to the Community Information Summaries.
See: Community Information Summaries: Bibliography