Helpful Australian demographics for building representative samples of adults

Recategorising census information to help build survey specifications.

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Matthew Andreotta

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February 3, 2023

When trying to match Australia’s population demographics to my survey sample’s demographics, I sometimes find the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ reporting cumbersome. Namely, ten-year and five-year categorisation of ages combines children and adults in a 15-19 year category. This leaves me scratching my head over how many 18 and 19 year olds to include in my study of Australian adults. To alleviate this problem, I’ve reported some census statistics on Australian adults, which you can find here.

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BibTeX citation:
@online{andreotta2023,
  author = {Andreotta, Matthew},
  title = {Helpful {Australian} Demographics for Building Representative
    Samples of Adults},
  date = {2023-02-03},
  url = {https://matt-lab.github.io/posts/2023-02-03_census/},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Andreotta, Matthew. 2023. “Helpful Australian Demographics for Building Representative Samples of Adults.” February 3, 2023. https://matt-lab.github.io/posts/2023-02-03_census/.