nat_data16

A dataset containing some demographic information for each of the 150 Australian electorates.
The data were obtained from the Australian Electoral Commission, and downloaded 
from <a href="https://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/gis/gis_datadownload.htm">https://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/gis/gis_datadownload.htm</a>.
Must be loaded using the `nat_data_download` function.

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Data from the seven Australian Federal Elections (House of
Representatives) between 2001 and 2019, and from the four Australian
Censuses over the same period. Includes tools for visualizing and
analysing the data, as well as imputing Census data for years in
which a Census does not occur. This package incorporates
data that is copyright Commonwealth of Australia (Australian
Electoral Commission and Australian Bureau of Statistics) 2019.

Jeremy Forbes

eechidna

Exploring Election and Census Highly Informative Data Nationally
for Australia

Di Cook

Anthony Ebert

Heike Hofmann

Rob Hyndman

Thomas Lumley

Ben Marwick

Carson Sievert

Mingzhu Sun

Dilini Talagala

Nicholas Tierney

Nathaniel Tomasetti

Earo Wang

Fang Zhou

Commonwealth of Australia AEC

Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS

nat_data16 function

A data frame with 150 rows with the following variables:<ul>
<li>id: Numeric identifier for the polygon</li>
<li>elect_div: Electorate division name</li>
<li>state: abbreviation of the state name</li>
<li>numccds: AEC variable that might be filled with meaning or a description down the road</li>
<li>area_sqkm: combined square kilometers of each electorate</li>
<li>long_c: longitude coordinate of electorate (polygon) centroid</li>
<li>lat_c: latitude coordinate of electorate (polygon) centroid</li>
<li>x: latitude coordinate for plotting a cartogram</li>
<li>y: longitude coordinate for plotting a cartogram</li>
<li>radius: variable used in the construction of cartogram points</li>
</ul>

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A dataset containing some demographic information for each of the 150 Australian electorates.
The data were obtained from the Australian Electoral Commission, and downloaded 
from <a href='https://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/gis/gis_datadownload.htm'>https://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/gis/gis_datadownload.htm</a>.
Must be loaded using the `nat_data_download` function.

Data and centroids corresponding to the Australian Electorates from 2016 — nat_data16

Data and centroids corresponding to the Australian Electorates from 2016

nat_data16: Data and centroids corresponding to the Australian Electorates from 2016

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