Saturday, June 30, 2007

Lies, damn lies and statistics



















COUNTRY OF BIRTH Information Icon: Definition of Country of birth of Person - Characteristics 2006
MAIN RESPONSES IN SELECTED REGION
Selected Region
% of total persons in Region
Australia
% of total persons in Australia

Australia
31,223
53.8%
14,072,944
70.9%
China
3,054
5.3%
206,591
1.0%
Malaysia
2,404
4.1%
92,337
0.5%
England
1,951
3.4%
856,939
4.3%
Sri Lanka
1,841
3.2%
62,257
0.3%
India
1,750
3.0%
147,106
0.7%

Here's an excerpt from the latest ABS Census that profiles my suburb by postcode.

To be quite honest, I don't believe it. Why?
Because if I step outside my front door, the chances of seeing an person of Asian appearance will not be 1% as the statistics show but actually around 70%.
If I go to my local shopping centre then the chances increase to about 90%. In other words, 9 out of ten people I see will be of Asian appearance.
Further, the stats show Indian/Sri Lankan people as making up only 1% of the total population. In my experience the real statistic is more like 30%.



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3 comments:

Liliana said...

Hi Lexcen! I agree with you, all we see are asians, not here where I live(MĂ©xico), but every time we cross the border, to California, there they are!!! I thought they were only in USA, but now I know they are every where....I think we are being invaded.
:o)

Lexcen said...

Hi, Liliana. Sorry I don't speak Spanish so I can't read your blog.

onix said...

You know where i live in the weekend the street in the city can be empty for 2 miles at 00.30?

Thats becus its white ppl here. Ppl with expensive jobs and money.
They don't need to go shopping much. And if your that far off you are scared of anything, (an example would be islamophobia) and don't dare to come on the street, is it the other culture u need to blame?

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