Australia - Net internal and overseas migration estimates by region (SA2 and above) and age, 2016-17 onwards

One row is an SDMX observation for this ABS dataflow, with OBS_VALUE broken down by the table's dimensions. Net regional internal migration (RIME) is the net gain or loss of population through the movement of people from one location to another within Australia. Net regional overseas migration (ROME) is the net gain or loss of population through immigration to or emigration from Australia. RIME and ROME are prepared for sub-state regions and capture moves over each financial year from 2016-17 on an annual basis. Unit of measure: Persons. Geographic coverage: Australia/State/GCCSA/SA4/SA3/SA2. Catalogue number: 3235.0 Profiled coverage: time coverage 2017 to 2020; geographic coverage Australia/State/GCCSA/SA4/SA3/SA2. Current profile has 131,280 rows. Dimension values are ABS SDMX codes; use the source code lists for full labels where a label column is not present.

australian-bureau-of-statistics-abs-regional-migration·11 columns·259 KB·Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International·updated 1mo ago

Schema

dataflowVARCHAR
mig_typeBIGINT
regiontypeVARCHAR
asgs_2016VARCHAR
ageVARCHAR
frequencyVARCHAR
time_periodBIGINT
obs_valueDOUBLE
unit_measureVARCHAR
obs_statusVARCHAR
obs_commentVARCHAR

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