Australian Standard Geographical Classification
The Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) is a hierarchical geographical classification, defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), which is used in the collection and dissemination of official statistics. The ASGC provides a common framework of statistical geography and thereby enables the production of statistics which are comparable and can be spatially integrated.
In practice, statistical units such as households and businesses are first classified or assigned to a geographical area in one of the six ASGC structures. Data collected from these statistical units are then compiled into ASGC-defined geographical aggregations which, subject to confidentiality restrictions, are then available for publication.
Various Queensland ASGC regions are available in convienient formats (Google, PDF and KML) on the OESR maps page, or alternately the full classification can be ordered or downloaded from the Australian Bureau of Statistics website: ASGC (latest edition) ABS Cat. no. 1216.0.
Last reviewed: May 20, 2009, Last modified: May 19, 2009
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