PURPOSE

The S Dist. Structure maintains a list of selected, significant, predominantly urban areas in Australia which are not located within a Capital City SD (see Main Structure section within this publication). S Dists enable comparable statistics to be produced about these selected urban areas. In the main, the structure is used to report intercensal population estimates.

S Dists are maintained as a separate structure from the Main Structure because:

• the total area of S Dists does not cover the whole of Australia
• some S Dists straddle S/T boundaries (e.g. the Gold Coast-Tweed S Dist. lies partly in Queensland and partly in New South Wales).

THE STRUCTURE

The S Dist. Structure has three levels of hierarchy SLAs-SSDs-S Dists (see ASGC Structural Chart).

In this structure, SLAs and SSDs are confined to those which fall within S Dists. The spatial units relate to each other through aggregation or disaggregation. For example, SLAs are disaggregates of SSDs. The spatial units within each level of the S Dist. Structure do not collectively cover the whole of Australia.


Table

The current S Dist. Structure, down to SLA level, is shown in The Classification Structures. This table is available in both the publication pdf and as a .csv file.

For example:

• Statistical District Structure

(showing three hierarchical levels: S Dist.-SSD-SLA)

SDIST SSD SLA			Name
1003			NEWCASTLE (NSW)
	11005		Newcastle
		1720	Cessnock (C)
		4651	Lake Macquarie (C) - East
		4653	Lake Macquarie (C) - North
		4655	Lake Macquarie (C) - West
		5050	Maitland (C)
		5903	Newcastle (C) - Inner City
		5904	Newcastle (C) - Outer West
		5905	Newcastle (C) - Throsby
		6400	Port Stephens (A)

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