Brief description
The 1986 Census Collection District Master File (CDMF) stores basic counts and associated geographic codes for every collection district (CD) in Australia, for tabulation, field control, processing control and general research purposes, and to facilitate linkage to previous Census data. The data is by CD 1986 boundaries. Periodicity: 5-Yearly.This data is ABS data (original geographic boundary cat. no. 1261.0.30.001 & census dictionary cat. no. 2102.0) 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 1986 geographic boundaries are available from [data.gov.au](https://data.gov.au/dataset/asgc-1986-edition-boundaries).
For more information please refer to the [1986 Census Dictionary](http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/free.nsf/0/022FAE4DB81F5548CA25757C0011361D/$File/21740_1986_Census_Dictionary.pdf).
Full description
AURIN Download Manager - Download this dataset via the AURIN Download Managertext: EPSG:4283 (GDA_1994)
Identifiers
- Local : au-govt-abs-census-collection-district-master-file-1986-na
- URI : data.aurin.org.au/dataset/28e63afb-7cc3-4558-8bad-c5020fdda3ef