GCCSA-W08a Industry of Employment by Year of Arrival in Australia by Proficiency in Spoken English-Census 2016

GCCSA based data for Industry of Employment by Year of Arrival in Australia by Proficiency in Spoken English, in Working Population Profile (WPP), 2016 Census. Count of employed persons aged 15 years and over born overseas. Excludes persons who did not state their country of birth. The year 2016 is the period 1 January 2016 to 9 August 2016. W08 is broken up into 5 sections (W08a - W08e), this section contains 'Speaks English only Agriculture forestry and fishing Year of arrival in Australia Before 1991' - 'Speaks other language and speaks English very well or well Mining Year of arrival in Australia 1991-1995'. The data is by GCCSA 2016 boundaries. Periodicity: 5-Yearly. Note: There are small random adjustments made to all cell values to protect the confidentiality of data. These adjustments may cause the sum of rows or columns to differ by small amounts from table totals. For more information visit the data source: http://www.abs.gov.au/census.

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Published (Metadata Record) 02/03/2026
Last updated 03/03/2026
Organisation Australian Federal Government
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