eechidna (version 1.3.0)

abs2007: Imputed Australian Census data for the electorates in place at time of the 2007 Federal election

Description

A dataset containing estimated demographic and other information about each electorate. The data is imputed using Census information from 2006 and 2011. See the imputing-census-data vignette for more details.

Usage

abs2007

Arguments

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

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
library(eechidna)
library(dplyr)
data(abs2007)
abs2007 %>% select(DivisionNm, MedianAge, Unemployed, NoReligion, MedianPersonalIncome) %>% head()

# Join with two-party preferred voting data
library(ggplot2)
data(tpp07)
election2007 <- left_join(abs2007, tpp07, by = "UniqueID")
# See relationship between personal income and Liberal/National support
ggplot(election2007, aes(x = MedianPersonalIncome, y = LNP_Percent)) + geom_point() + geom_smooth()
# }

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