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NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Customised ABS Census Data by Water Sharing Plan (WSP) regions

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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Language English
Alternative Title Census Data by WSP region
Edition 1
Purpose Secondary data are available from ABS Agricultural and Population censuses for many of the economic indicators and measures identified in the Water Sharing Plan Evaluation Framework. But the data are at a scale that does not match with the water sharing plan (WSP) regions. NSW DPE – Water purchased customised data for each of the 59 WSP regions (58 since July 2023, Bega and Murrah-Wallaga Unregulated and Alluvial WSPs are merged into Bega Unregulated and Alluvial WSP 2023) from 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021 ABS censuses. This allows development of evidence data packs to address key evaluation questions related to economic impacts of WSPs. Note: ABS could not provide agricultural census data on Barwon-Darling Unregulated River Water source WSP for technical reasons.
Frequency of change Not planned
Keywords WATER
Metadata Date 2023-09-28
Date of Asset Creation 2023-09-28
Date of Asset Publication 2023-11-21
License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Geospatial Topic Location
NSW Place Name NSW
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Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 2006-01-01 - 2021-12-31
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 2023"
Groups Department of Planning and Environment—Water