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Table 2 Summary of demographic attributes and mixing contexts of the surrogate population generated from 2016 and 2021 Census

From: Measuring unequal distribution of pandemic severity across census years, variants of concern and interventions

Number of

Census 2016 based

Census 2021 based

Increase (%)

SA2s (SLAs)

2310

2454

6.23

SA1s (CDs)

57,523

61,811

7.45

DZNs

9136

9307

1.87

Working Groups

470,608

530,988

12.83

Schools

9,463

9605

1.50

Grades

56,778

57,630

1.50

Classes

174,564

189,078

8.31

Households

9,656,841

10,802,052

11.86

Household Clusters

2,435,274

2,723,287

11.83

Population

23,406,541

25,428,029

8.64

  1. The 4th column shows the relative increase for each attribute over the five-year period. The population expansion results in an increase across all residential and mixing contexts
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