The scope of this project is all matters specifically relating to all matters concerned with the size, composition and distribution of the human population in Australia, in the past, the present and into the future, including:
This is a new project, and several things need to be done. Many of these things will remain important as the project develops. Among them are:
Recruiting members and keeping them active and interested
Improving any articles falling within the scope of this project
Creating any articles which are important, but have not currently been created
Actively watching, monitoring and exercising some care, caution, and standards in the way ethnic and/or descent based labels are assigned and attributed to individuals, and segments of Australia's populations
Actively watching, monitoring, and maintaining the demographic integrity of articles about indigenous Australians, including making any changes as necessary
Tagging articles and understand the scope of present coverage of the topic and identify gaps in coverage
Rename relevant articles in format Booian Australian no hyphen, no plural
For Booian Australian articles we should continue to use Country of Birth and ancestry data, but have caveats (including in the info-box); promote most ACCURATE and PRECISE descriptions of population characteristics as is possible; use citizenship statistics where possible
Iryna Harpy (talk·contribs): Primarily interested in ethnic group articles (don't mind the grunt work of cleaning up link rot, checking citations, and translating cites).
No longer active, retired eds or no edits in over a year
Please feel free to list any new articles falling within the scope of this project here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.
Articles are missing for the following Medium importance topics where ancestry declared for <100,000 but more than 20,000 respondents on the 2006 census
When an article is found - and does not have the Demographics project in the discussion page tag - the tag should appear like:-
WP Australia | Demographics=yes to have it included within the project
<ref name="ABS Ancestry">{{cite web| url = http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/ViewData?breadcrumb=POLTD&method=Place%20of%20Usual%20Residence
&subaction=-1&issue=2006&producttype=Census%20Tables&documentproductno=0&textversion=false&documenttype=Details&collection=Census
&javascript=true&topic=Ancestry&action=404&productlabel=Ancestry%20(full%20classification%20list)%20by%20Sex&order=1
&period=2006&tabname=Details&areacode=0&navmapdisplayed=true& | title = 20680-Ancestry (full classification list) by Sex - Australia| format = Microsoft Excel download |publisher = [[Australian Bureau of Statistics]] | work = 2006 Census| accessdate = 2008-05-19}} Total responses: 25,451,383 for total count of persons: 19,855,288.</ref>
<ref name="ABS Country of Birth">{{cite web| url = http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/ViewData?action=404&documentproductno=0&documenttype=Details&order=1
&tabname=Details&areacode=0&issue=2006&producttype=Census%20Tables&javascript=true&textversion=false&navmapdisplayed=true
&breadcrumb=POLTD&&collection=Census&period=2006&productlabel=Country%20of%20Birth%20of%20Person%20(full%20classification%20list)
%20by%20Sex&producttype=Census%20Tables&method=Place%20of%20Usual%20Residence&topic=Birthplace& |title = 20680-Country of Birth of Person (full classification list) by Sex - Australia|format = Microsoft Excel download |publisher = [[Australian Bureau of Statistics]] | work = 2006 Census| accessdate = 2008-05-27}} Total count of persons: 19,855,288. </ref>
"4102.0 - Australian Social Trends, 2003 : Population characteristics: Ancestry of Australia's population". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 2008-05-19. For example: The 2001 census found that: Due to the historic migrations of people from China, especially to Southeast Asia, Chinese ancestry was associated not only with Australia (26%), China (25%) and Hong Kong (11%) but with several other birthplaces, such as Malaysia (10%) and Viet Nam (8%). The ABS states in relation to the ancestry question for the 2001 census the purpose of an ancestry question is to capture current ethnic or cultural affiliations, which are by nature self-perceived, rather than to attempt to document actual historic family origins.
<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/7d12b0f6763c78caca257061001cc588/af5129cb50e07099ca2570eb0082e462!OpenDocument | title = 4102.0 - Australian Social Trends, 2003 : Population characteristics: Ancestry of Australia's population |publisher = [[Australian Bureau of Statistics]] | accessdate = 2008-05-19|quote = The 2001 census found that: ...}} The ABS states in relation to the ancestry question for the 2001 census ''the purpose of an ancestry question is to capture current ethnic or cultural affiliations, which are by nature self-perceived, rather than to attempt to document actual historic family origins.''</ref>
