DATA AND STATISTICS--COMPREHENSIVE
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DATA AND STATISTICS--AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, OCEANIA
Australian Bureau of Statistics – Australia’s national statistical agency and an official source of independent, reliable information. Focus is on providing current data, however, the site also includes historical census, economic, labor, industry, demographic, and health data. Besides searching under a particular tab, another useful agency resource are the yearbooks and other sources of historical data from the Historical Publications Online published before 1994.
Australians: Historical Statistics – full-text access to a book published in 1987 devoted to historical data about Australia collected by various scholars and made accessible by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Among the twenty-six chapters are Immigration and Ethnic Origin, Population, Marriage, Fertility and Mortality, Climate, Agriculture, The Economy before 1850 and other various chapters on economic and trade data, War, Crime and Justice, Housing, Social Welfare, Politics, Public Opinion, Religion, and Social Welfare.
Migration Data in Oceania – a Regional Data Overview essay published by the Global Migration Data Portal, a unique access point to timely, comprehensive migration statistics and reliable information about migration data globally. The essay includes analysis and a list of cited sources that can be used to investigate additional research. Essay was last updated on
Statistics New Zealand – official New Zealand statistics on the Census, Business, Education, Agriculture, Households, Industry and more. Among the resources available is the The New Zealand Official Yearbook, which has provided a comprehensive statistical picture of life in New Zealand from 1893 to 2010.
NOTE: To search for historical statistics of the countries comprising Oceania--Melanesia (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu); Micronesia (Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru and Palau), and Polynesia (Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu)–use the comprehensive statistical resources described in the above text box.