Census of Population and Housing 1976: Local Government Area Summary Files One - De Facto
The Local Government Area Summary Files One - De Facto present summary characteristics for persons and dwellings (other than occupation, industry and qualifications) for every Local Government Area (LGA) in Australia. "De Facto" refers here to the presentation of summary file data at the place of enumeration, that is at the dwellings where all persons spent census night, rather than at the dwellings where they usually live. The census is conducted on a "de facto" basis, although census data occasionally may be released on a "de jure" or "place of usual residence" basis.
The records for each LGA include geographic area codes for State, Statistical Division, Statistical Subdivision/ District, LGA and State Area. The table information is made up of 64 tables giving data for both persons and dwellings. The tables include counts for males and females by marital status, social handicaps, license to drive, racial origin period of residence, birthplace of parents, language, usual major activity, usual residence, ages, religion, educational institution attending, age left school, highest qualification, income, duration of marriage, child minding facilities used; and dwelling counts by type of dwelling, material of walls, number of rooms and bedrooms, facilities, number of vehicles, power or fuel used, nature of occupancy, weekly rent, sources of mortgages, mortgage payments, structure of building and reason unoccupied.
The Summary Files contain 2 files of LGA level summary data. File A holds data for NSW and Victoria and contains 460 logical records. File B holds data for all other States and Territories and contains 767 logical records.
Each logical record contains one record of geographic indicative information and 12 records containing counts or totals grouped to form 64 tables.
Each of the two LGA One De Facto Summary Files contains 13 records for each LGA. The first record contains 10 cells of geographic indicative information. The next 12 records contain a total of 2733 cells of counts of summary information for persons and dwellings. File A contains data for NSW and Victoria on 460 logical records; file B contains data for other States and Territories on 767 logical records.
The 10 cells of indicative information for the LGA One De Facto Summary Files are contained in the first physical record of each logical record in the format
- Record length (0080)
- Record type (00)
- Zero fill (00)
- Statistical Division
- Statistical Subdivision/District
- Census LGA Code
- Not used
- State Area Code
- Not used
The Summary File contains data cells from the 64 summary tables listed below. Full details of the tables and cells are given in the "Condensed Format Summary Tables Description File (download .rtf version)".
The first three fields on each of the 12 records are as for the indicative records (i.e. Record Length, Record type and zero fill). Each record contains, after the record identification fields, a series of 6 character fields each containing a value in the range 000000 to 999999 and representing a cell within the 64 tables compiled for each LGA.
The relationship between record type and tables is as follows:
|Record type||Table numbers||Total no. of cells|
|7||20 - 22||196|
|8||23 - 27||300|
|9||28 - 34||242|
|10||35 - 39||234|
|11||40 - 53||166|
|12||54 - 64||123|
The populations covered by each table are as follows
|1||Various major categories covering population|
|2||Various major categories covering dwellings|
|3 - 5||Total population|
|6||Total Australian born population|
|8||1975--Total population at home on 30 June 1976|
|9||1971--Total population at home on 30 June 1976|
|11||Total population aged 15 years or more|
|14||Total overseas born population|
|16-17||Total overseas born population|
|19||Total population aged 5 years or more|
|21-23||Total population aged 15 years or more|
|24||(a) Total population aged 15 years or more|
(b) Total families in private dwellings (excluding communes)
(c) Total households i.e. total occupied private dwellings (excluding private boarding houses)
|25||Total now married women aged 15 years or more|
|26||Total children aged 0 - 5 years|
|27||Total now and ever married women aged 15 years or more|
|28||Total families and population in private dwellings|
|29 - 31||Total population in labour force|
|32 - 35||Total employed population|
|36||Indeterminate as any one employed person may use more than one mode of travel|
|37 - 38||Total population aged 15 years or more|
|40 - 46||Total occupied dwellings|
|47||(a) Total occupied private dwellings|
(b) Total population in occupied private dwellings
|48 - 56||Total occupied private dwellings|
|57 - 58||Total mortgaged occupied private dwellings|
|59||Total number of mortgages|
|60 - 62||Total mortgaged occupied private dwellings|
|63||Total rented occupied private dwellings|
|64||Total unoccupied private dwellings|