1270.0.55.001 - Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 1 - Main Structure and Greater Capital City Statistical Areas, July 2016  
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INFORMATION ABOUT CSV FILES

The product Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Volume 1 - Main Structure and Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (cat no. 1270.0.55.001) contains comma-separated value (.csv) files. These files list the codes, labels and hierarchies for all the regions within the Main Structure and Greater Capital City Statistical Areas.

There are fifteen .csv files listing the geographical hierarchies for each of the following regions:

  • Mesh Blocks (MB)
  • Statistical Area Level 1 (SA1)
  • Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2)
  • Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3)
  • Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4)
  • Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (GCCSA)
  • State and Territory (STE).

The hierarchy is listed from the lowest level of the ASGS up.

The Mesh Block .csv files are broken up by State/Territory whereas all other files are for the whole of Australia.

FILE CONTENTS:

For example MB_2016_NSW.csv contains all Mesh Blocks within NSW and includes the following fields:
  • MB_CODE_2016
  • MB_CATEGORY_2016
  • SA1_MAINCODE_2016
  • SA1_7DIGITCODE_2016
  • SA2_MAINCODE_2016
  • SA2_5DIGITCODE_2016
  • SA2_NAME_2016
  • SA3_CODE_2016
  • SA3_NAME_2016
  • SA4_CODE_2016
  • SA4_NAME_2016
  • GCCSA_CODE_2016
  • GCCSA_NAME_2016
  • STATE_CODE_2016
  • STATE_NAME_2016
  • AREA_ALBERS_SQKM

This lists the Mesh Blocks that make up the SA1s, SA2s, SA3s, SA4s, GCCSAs and State/Territory. It also gives the area in square kilometres of the Mesh Block, based on Albers Conic Equal Area projection.