Statistics: Tasmania

Current statistics online

Tasmanian statistical information is found at the Australian Bureau of Statistics and other agencies such as:

• Food and Agriculture - Facts and figures from the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment

• Transport - The Department of State Growth website includes Tasmanian crash statistics for several years

• Education - See Plans, Reports and Statistics for more information

• HealthStats

Print resources in the National Library

Start with the Library Catalogue

• Choose subjects from the drop-down All Fields list  
• Type your keywords in the search bar

Example: Tasmania -- Statistics

Selected works:

• Tasmanian year book 1967 - 2000 - also available online
• Regional statistics, Tasmania -  also available online to 2007

Case Study

Agricultural statistics

For background research into Tasmanian farming, I would like to know the farming areas of Tasmania, the farm types of those areas, the number of farm holdings by area and farm type, and the number of people working the total number of farms.

We can find historical information in the National Library's print collections, for example

• Number of farms, farm population, employment, irrigation and machinery used, Tasmania, 1956-1971
• Number of rural establishments, irrigation and fertiliser usage, Tasmania, 1977/78-1978/79

These items are not useful for current statistics. We should be able to get more up to date data from the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) also has agricultural data for Tasmania, with the latest publication completed in 2007.

Later statistics from the ABS is found in the National Regional Profiles. Agriculture is listed under Industry.