nat_map04

A dataset containing the map of the all 150 Australian electorates using the 2004 boundaries of the 
electorates (and downsampled to a 5% file to allow fast plotting).
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>.

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_map04 function

A data frame with the following variables:<ul>
<li>id: numeric identifier for the polygon</li>
<li>long: longitude coordinate of point in polygon</li>
<li>lat: latitude coordinate of point in polygon</li>
<li>order: order for polygon points</li>
<li>hole: whether polygon has a hole</li>
<li>piece: piece for polygon</li>
<li>group: group for polygon</li>
<li>elect_div: Electoral division name</li>
<li>state: Abbreviation for state name</li>
</ul>

Format

A dataset containing the map of the all 150 Australian electorates using the 2004 boundaries of the 
electorates (and downsampled to a 5% file to allow fast plotting).
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>.

Map of Australian Electorates from 2004 — nat_map04

Map of Australian Electorates from 2004

nat_map04: Map of Australian Electorates from 2004

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