Hello and welcome to the Australian Bureau of Statistics interactive guide to the 2006 Census Community Profile Series. My name is Kynan and I will be your guide in today's tutorial. This presentation runs for approximately six minutes and is designed to assist you in navigating through the ABS website to obtain Census Community Profiles. To make things easier, the presentation has been broken down into several sections and will pause at the end of each section. To proceed to the next section, simply move your mouse pointer onto the highlighted area and click the left mouse button once. This will allow you to move through the presentation at your own pace.

The Community Profile Series is designed to provide a comprehensive statistical snapshot of a selected area. Each profile provides information on key Census characteristics and covers most topics from the Census form. The information is also provided for persons, families and dwellings.

There are six separate profiles in the Community Profile Series; The Basic Community Profile; the Place of Enumeration Profile; the Indigenous Profile; the Time Series Profile; the Expanded Community Profile; and the Working Population Profile.

Basic Community Profiles are available for all levels of geography, however the availability of the five remaining Profiles will depend on the area chosen. In this presentation we will look at the Basic Community Profile which consists of 45 separate tables that have been tailored to reflect the profile of any selected location.

Community Profiles can be downloaded free from the ABS website in excel spreadsheet format. They are also available through the ABS Information Consultancy Service in CSV and XML formats. If you require data for a large number of areas it is recommended that you contact an ABS Information Consultant who can advise you further.

Help is available through a link in the top right-hand corner of each page on the ABS website or alternately, you can call the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070.

This is the ABS website's homepage. To access a Basic Community Profile, we will begin by using the mouse pointer to select 'Census' from the global menu that runs horizontally across the top of the homepage.

This link is also available in the 'Quicklinks' menu that runs down the left hand side of the homepage. Select Census from the Global Menu bar to continue.

You are now looking at the Census hompage which contains links to all 2006 Census products and provides information on the latest Census releases. To access the Community Profile Series, select Community Profiles as demonstrated on the screen to continue.

You are now looking at the Census Community Profile's search facility. This facility allows you to search for Census Community Profiles by Address, State or City; by Browsing for your location from a list; or by choosing the area from a map. In this example we will use the default 'Search' function which allows you to search for a specific location by entering a place name or postal code within Australia. In this example, we are going to search for Canberra.

Now that we have chosen our area. Select Search to continue.

This will activate a list of locations that matches whatever you have entered into the search facility, in this case Canberra. You may then use the scroll bar on the right hand side of this list to view all the available geographical matches to the location you have entered, and then choose the most appropriate one for your needs.

To select a location from the list, move the mouse pointer over the relevant description and click the left mouse button once. This will present a basic map to the right of the list that corresponds to the geographical area you have chosen. This map can be used to ensure you have picked the right area. Here we have selected the Canberra (Statistical Division).

A copy of this map can be saved, printed or emailed by moving the mouse pointer over the map area and selecting from the icons that appear in the top left hand corner of the map.

Once you are sure you have chosen the correct geographical area you may proceed by selecting the 'View Community Profile' button beneath the list of locations. Select View Community Profile now to continue.

To access this data you can either select the 'Basic Community Profile' link or select the 'Details' tab. Select the Details tab now to continue.

You can now download the Census Community Profile of your choice. In this example, we have chosen the Basic Community Profile, and so we will select this Profile by clicking on the 'Free Download' link on the righhand side of the screen. Select Free Download to continue.

This will open a download window that allows you to open the profile from a temporary file, or save the Profile to your computer. In this example we will simply open the file. Select open to continue.

Double click on the excel file as demonstrated to continue.

This opens the profile we have selected as an excel spread sheet. The cover page of this document provides more detail about the geographical area you have selected. You may then use the arrows at the bottom left hand side of the screen or the tabs to their right to navigate to the list of tables, topics, concepts and definitions that are available in your chosen profile.

Lets look at an example table by clicking on the 'List of Tables' tab at the bottom of the screen and selecting one of the tables. In this case, select Table B24, Family Composition to continue.

This will take you directly to the table you have chosen and will display the relevant data in a standard format. Links to further information about this data can be found at the top of each table highlighted in blue.

At this stage you may continue to view the information on screen or if you have not done so already, you can save it to your personal drives for further analysis. You may also print the table using the standard excel printing options to obtain a hardcopy.

This concludes this interactive tutorial. Thank you for your time and happy data hunting!