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In this demonstration you will learn how to find Australian industry information using the Australian Bureau of Statistics website http://abs.gov.au
The Australian Bureau of Statistics gathers statistics and related information on all aspects of Australia, including industries
Begin at abs.gov.au
Scroll down
Select Themes - Industry in the far left of the home page
Here we can select an industry to find out more
for example: Agriculture
Agricultural Releases provides links to a wide range of ABS publications
for example: current agricultural publications
Let's have a look at the Australian Wine and Grape Industry
The downloads tab gives you a link to the latest PDF document
Note that this document includes many statistical tables as well as textual information
You may find the Related Information tab useful
Time series gives statistics going back for several years
You can often find useful and current information in feature articles
Other related sources of information has links to non-ABS data.
Let's have a look at another way to find industry information
Another useful way to find industry information is via Statistics
...by catalogue number
mining, for example (no. 84)
you can find more in-depth information.
The downloads tab gives links to not only a .pdf document.......
...but also to spreadsheets of statistics in Excel format.
Find out more about using ABS resources by going to the help page
Happy researching!
