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Old ABS IDs #13

Closed NickStallman closed 5 years ago

NickStallman commented 5 years ago

Hi Guys

It looks like many Australian localities have a field called "qs:la_lc" which contains a Australian Bureau of Statistics ID in it.

This ID (Starts with SSC for localities) is extremely useful as it allows you to easily fetch a wide range of Census demographic information for that area, and it's also used in other datasets as a concordance such as WikiData which means it's also useful for linking between datasets.

Unfortunately it looks like "qs:la_lc" is derived from the 2011 Census dataset. The ABS releases a new set of IDs with each Census, the IDs don't carry across from Census to Census.

E.g. Acacia Gardens has IDs 2011: SSC10010 and 2016: SSC10014.

I can see utility in keeping both IDs and other projects do store both, making a note which Census dataset the ID belongs to. E.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7966919 has both 2011 and 2016 SSC IDs listed.

Can I propose that we deprecate and remove the "qs:la_lc" property? And instead store these IDs in the concordances property as "ausstat:2011" and "ausstat:2016"? This would be very clear, allows us to store both at the same time and is future proof for the 2021 census which will again use different IDs.

stepps00 commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the issue, @NickStallman. We try to track each admin issue in the main whosonfirst-data repo - I'll close this an replace it with a new one in that repo.