Australian Bureau of Statistics
Celebrating the International Year of Statistics 2013

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POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS

This chapter provides information about selected population characteristics collected in the 2011-12 NHS. Population characteristics are important in aiding the comparison of different groups within the population, for example across age, income levels or geographic locations.

Population characteristics collected in the 2011-12 NHS were:

• demographic and socio-economic characteristics, including age, sex, marital status, country of birth, year of arrival in Australia, Indigenous status, language mainly spoken at home and proficiency in English;
• education;
• employment;
• income;
• health cards;
• housing;
• household, family and unit level characteristics; and
• geographic classifications.