Australian Bureau of Statistics

1996 Census - Free Data and Publications
1996 Census Data by Location Name - Complete 1996 Census BCPs available free of charge from 24 June, 2002
Full Basic Community Profile for total Australia
State and Summary extracts - for Australia and each State & Territory
Urban Centres and Localities extracts - for urban centres & localities for Australia and each State & Territory
Family and Labour Force extracts - for Australia and each State & Territory
Counting the Homeless - information on how the homeless were counted and data
1996 SEIFA Data (now available free)

1996 Census Products
CDATA96 - a CD-ROM providing a large volume of Census data, digital boundaries and Base Map data.
Household Sample File (HSF) (pdf - 268kb) - a one percent sample of data from the 1996 Census.
Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas 96 (SEIFA96) - five indexes summarising the social and economic conditions of Australian people by geographic area.
Australia in Profile - compares characteristics of people across Australia.