Australian Bureau of Statistics
Celebrating the International Year of Statistics 2013

Geographic Extent Name
Geographic Australia; including the external territories of Cocos (Keeling) Islands & Christmas Island but excluding all other external territories.


File Attributes

Field	Data type	Characters
Mesh Block ID	Numeric	11
Dwellings	Numeric	3
Persons usually resident	Numeric	5

Data Currency
Data is current for Census Night, 9 August 2011

Dataset Status
Completed dataset

Maintenance and Update Frequency: No updates planned.


ACCESS

Stored Data Format
Digital spreadsheet files

Available Format Type
Excel 2003 files (.xls)
CSV files (.csv)

Access Constraints
Copyright Commonwealth of Australia administered by the ABS


DATA QUALITY
Due to the small size of Mesh Blocks, data is confidentialised and is only released for basic dwelling counts and number of persons usually resident.
Each state contains a single Mesh Block ID for No Usual Address. These have the following coding structure:
<State Code>0000009499
For example, the NSW Mesh Block code for No Usual Address is 10000009499.