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Australian Cultural and Ethnic Groups

Last updated 25 August 2011

 

Extract from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: August 2011

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"The Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups (ASCCEG) is the Australian statistical standard for classifying ancestry data within the Australian population. ASCCEG has been developed based on the geographic area in which a group originated, developed or settled noting, similarity of groups in terms of social and cultural characteristics. ASCCEG is intended for use in the collection, aggregation and dissemination of data relating to the cultural diversity of the Australian population. "


CLASSIFICATION STRUCTURE

"ASCCEG has a three level hierarchical structure. The third, and most detailed level, of the classification, consists of the base level units which are the identified cultural and ethnic groups. The classification consists of 275 cultural and ethnic groups. Some groups are residual categories, or 'not elsewhere classified' (nec) categories, which contain entities not listed separately in the classification. The second level of the classification consists of 28 narrow groups of cultural and ethnic entities which are similar in terms of the classification criteria. The first and most general level of the classification consists of 9 broad groups which are formed by aggregating geographically proximate narrow groups and therefore consist of cultural and ethnic entities which are broadly similar in terms of social and cultural characteristics."


 

     

BROAD GROUP

NARROW GROUP

CULTURAL AND ETHNIC GROUP

OCEANIAN Australian Peoples Australian

Australian Aboriginal

Australian South Sea Islander

Torres Strait Islander

 

New Zealand Peoples

Maori

New Zealander

NORTH-WEST EUROPEAN

British

English

Scottish

Welsh

Channel Islander

Manx

British, nec (not elsewhere classified)

 

Irish

Irish (including Northern Irish)
     
     
     

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