‘Older, whiter and smaller’: new census data to show how Covid changed Australia
by Elias Visontay from World news | The Guardian on (#60SD0)
The 2021 census was taken when much of Australia was in lockdown. The data will be a snapshot of the enormous ripple effect' of the pandemic
Australians are about to get a clearer idea of how we are changing as a nation, and how the Covid pandemic changed us, when results from the 2021 census are released.
On Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release the first tranche of data covering topics such as population flows between cities and regional areas, how Australians are housed, the languages we use, Indigenous health and education, employment and unpaid rates of work.
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