eechidna (version 1.3.0)

abs2004: Imputed Australian Census data for the electorates in place at time of the 2004 Federal election

Description

A dataset containing estimated demographic and other information about each electorate. The data is imputed using Census information from 2001 and 2006. See the imputing-census-data vignette for more details.

Usage

abs2004

Format

A data frame with 150 rows with the following variables:

• DivisionNm: Name of electorate

• Age00_04: Percentage of people aged 0-4.

• Age05_14: Percentage of people aged 5-9.

• Age15_19: Percentage of people aged 15-19.

• Age20_24: Percentage of people aged 20-24.

• Age25_34: Percentage of people aged 25-34.

• Age35_44: Percentage of people aged 35-44.

• Age45_54: Percentage of people aged 45-54.

• Age55_64: Percentage of people aged 55-64.

• Age65_74: Percentage of people aged 65-74.

• Age75_84: Percentage of people aged 75-84.

• Age85plus: Percentage of people aged 85 or higher.

• Anglican: Percentage of people affiliated with the Anglican denomimation

• AusCitizen: Percentage of people who are Australian Citizens

• AverageHouseholdSize: Average number of people in a household

• BachelorAbv: Percentage of people who have completed a Bachelor degree or above

• Born_Asia: Percentage of people born in Asia

• Born_MidEast: Percentage of people born in the Middle East

• Born_SE_Europe: Percentage of people born in South Eastern Europe

• Born_UK: Percentage of people born in the United Kingdom

• BornElsewhere: Percentage of people who were born overseas, outside of Asia, Middle East, South Eastern Europe and the UK

• Buddhism: Percentage of people affiliated with the Buddhist religion

• Catholic: Percentage of people affiliated with the Catholic denomimation

• Christianity: Percentage of people affiliated with the Christian religion (of all denominations)

• Couple_NoChild_House: Percentage of households made up of a couple with no children

• Couple_WChild_House: Percentage of households made up of a couple with children

• CurrentlyStudying: Percentage of people who are currently studying

• DeFacto: Percentage of people who are in a de facto marriage

• DiffAddress: Percentage of people who live at a different address to what they did 5 years ago

• DipCert: Percentage of people who have completed a diploma or certificate

• Distributive: Percentage of employed persons who work in wholesale trade, retail trade, transport, post or warehousing related industries

• EmuneratedElsewhere: Percentage of people who receive emuneration outside of Australia, out of the total population plus overseas visitors

• EnglishOnly: Percentage of people who speak only English

• Extractive: Percentage of employed persons who work in extractive industries (includes mining, gas, water, agriculture, waste, electricity)

• FamilyRatio: Average number of people per family

• Finance: Percentage of employed persons who work in finance or insurance related industries

• HighSchool: Percentage of people who have completed high school

• Indigenous: Percentage of people who are Indigenous

• InternetAccess: Percentage of people with access to the internet

• InternetUse: Percentage of people who used internet in the last week (2001 only)

• Islam: Percentage of people affiliated with the Islamic religion

• Judaism: Percentage of people affiliated with the Jewish religion

• Laborer: Percentage of employed persons who work as a laborer

• LFParticipation: Labor force participation rate

• ManagerAdminClericalSales: Percentage of employed persons who work in management, administration, clerical duties and sales

• Married: Percentage of people who are married

• MedianAge: Median age

• MedianFamilyIncome: Median weekly family income (in $)

• MedianHouseholdIncome: Median weekly household income (in $)

• MedianLoanPay: Median mortgage loan repayment amount (of mortgage payments, in $)

• MedianPersonalIncome: Median weekly personal income (in $)

• MedianRent: Median weekly rental payment amount (of those who rent, in $)

• Mortgage: Percentage of dwellings that are on a mortgage

• NoReligion: Percentage of people with no religion

• OneParent_House: Percentage of households made up of one parent with children

• Other_NonChrist: Percentage of people affiliated with a religion other than Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism

• OtherChrist: Percentage of people affiliated with a denomination of the Christian religion other than Anglican or Catholic

• OtherLanguageHome: Percentage of people who speak a language other than English at home

• Owned: Percentage of dwellings that are owned outright

• Professional: Percentage of employed persons who work as a professional

• PublicHousing: Percentage of dwellings that are owned by the government, and rented out to tenants

• Renting: Percentage of dwellings that are being rented

• SocialServ: Percentage of employed persons who work in education and training, healthcare, social work, community, arts and recreation

• SP_House: Percentage of households occupied by a single person

• Tradesperson: Percentage of employed persons who specialise in a trade

• Transformative: Percentage of employed persons who work in construction or manufacturing related industries

• Unemployed: Unemployment rate

• Volunteer: Percentage of people who work as a volunteer

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(eechidna)
library(dplyr)
data(abs2004)
abs2004 %>% select(DivisionNm, MedianAge, Unemployed, NoReligion, MedianPersonalIncome) %>% head()

# Join with two-party preferred voting data
library(ggplot2)
data(tpp04)
election2004 <- left_join(abs2004, tpp04, by = "UniqueID")
# See relationship between personal income and Liberal/National support
ggplot(election2004, aes(x = MedianPersonalIncome, y = LNP_Percent)) + geom_point() + geom_smooth()
# }