nat_data04

A dataset containing some demographic information for each of the 150 Australian electorates.
The data were obtained from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and downloaded 
from <a href="http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/2923.0.30.0012006?OpenDocument">http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/2923.0.30.0012006?OpenDocument</a>.
The data is published

datasets

Data from the six Australian Federal Elections (House of
Representatives) between 2001 and 2016, and from the four Australian
Censuses over the same period. Includes tools for visualizing and
analysing the data, as well as imputing Census data for years in
which a Census does not occur. This package incorporates
data that is copyright Commonwealth of Australia (Australian
Electoral Commission) 2016.

Jeremy Forbes

eechidna

Exploring Election and Census Highly Informative Data Nationally
for Australia

Di Cook

Anthony Ebert

Heike Hofmann

Rob Hyndman

Thomas Lumley

Ben Marwick

Carson Sievert

Mingzhu Sun

Dilini Talagala

Nicholas Tierney

Nathaniel Tomasetti

Earo Wang

Fang Zhou

Commonwealth of Australia AEC

Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS

nat_data04 function

A data frame with 150 rows with the following variables:<ul>
<li>id: numeric identifier for the polygon</li>
<li>elect_div: Electorate division name</li>
<li>state: abbreviation of the state name</li>
<li>long_c: longitude coordinate of electorate (polygon) centroid</li>
<li>lat_c: latitude coordinate of electorate (polygon) centroid</li>
<li>x: latitude coordinate for plotting a cartogram</li>
<li>y: longitude coordinate for plotting a cartogram</li>
<li>radius: variable used in the construction of cartogram points</li>
</ul>

Format

A dataset containing some demographic information for each of the 150 Australian electorates.
The data were obtained from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and downloaded 
from <a href='http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/2923.0.30.0012006?OpenDocument'>http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/2923.0.30.0012006?OpenDocument</a>.
The data is published

Data of the Australian Electorates from 2004 — nat_data04

Data of the Australian Electorates from 2004

nat_data04: Data of the Australian Electorates from 2004

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