Information regarding the amount of tertiary students aged 30 and over.
Dear Australian Bureau of Statistics,
May I please have some information on the the percentage figure of tertiary students aged 30 and over as close to 2013 as possible and may I please have the percentage figure of tertiary students aged 30 and over in 2003 (or close to that). It may depend on the year of the Census in each case - but I am after 2 versions of the same question, the most recent one and the one from close to 10 years earlier.
Yours faithfully,
Joseph Walz
Dear Australian Bureau of Statistics,
Some little time back I asked for information on the amount of tertiary students aged 30 and over, compared to those under 30. I would actually love information in this regard from the last census and the one prior to that as well. I would love to be able to single out NSW in this regard. The NSW aspect may be a big ask. If so just federally is great.
Unfortunately to do what I wanted I had to ask the bureau of stats for one of their products, suggested on my last "right to know" communication. and then your sales team tried to bill me over $1,000 for the products I would require.
I am a student and the purposes of asking for the information is to help with an assignment.
Is it possible you can revise that decision and provide a breqakdown of whatever of the above is possible.
Yours faithfully,
Joseph Walz
Locutus Sum left an annotation ()
I wish to make two suggestions; with good fortune, one of them will be helpful. One possibility is to use the Table Builder from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The Table Builder has a free version and a paid version. The free version has, I think, information about age, education and location. The web page is at http://abs.gov.au/websitedbs/censushome.... . If that is not correct, then you can go to the home page for the Bureau and type "Table Builder" in the search. Also, you can get a few minutes of free advice from the Bureau by telephone. I had a look this minute with a search of "age education" in the ABS search tool and several results (prepared tables) might be your answer.
A possibility also for you is to have a look at the student data in possession of the Education Department of the Australian Government at https://education.gov.au/student-data. That department has some developed tables already to look at; maybe what you want is there. I was about to suggest you to look at uCube from the Education Department (https://education.gov.au/ucube-higher-ed...) but I have had a look now and Age is not included.
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Ben Fairless left an annotation ()
Hi Joseph,
Just a few notes on this request. It doesn't relate to documents, rather it requests generic information (all FOI requests should be for documents)
Secondly, I believe the ABS publishes its documents or makes them available either for free or at a cost (via services such as Table Viewer: http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/censush...) you could be refused access via FOI on the basis that the information already exists in the public domain (even if there is a fee for it).
Cheers,
Ben