Statistical Local Area (SLA) based data for Usual Residence, 1986 census. Census counts were based on place of usual residence which; excludes overseas visitors; excludes Australians overseas; and excludes adjustment for under-enumeration. The data is by SLA 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.
For more information please refer to the 1986 Census Dictionary.