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4. Federal Offender characteristics (Tables 36–39) — Table 38

A tidy Prisoners in Australia table with 630 rows. It reports recorded values by year, state or territory and characteristic.

Status
approved
Publisher
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Release
2025
License
CC-BY-4.0

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Data preview

Showing the first 30 of 630 rows
5552016New South WalesTotal prisoners (b)—
6412017New South WalesTotal prisoners (b)—
6622018New South WalesTotal prisoners (b)—
6292019New South WalesTotal prisoners (b)—
6712020New South WalesTotal prisoners (b)—
7012021New South WalesTotal prisoners (b)—
6532022New South WalesTotal prisoners (b)—
6502023New South WalesTotal prisoners (b)—
5682024New South WalesTotal prisoners (b)—
5752025New South WalesTotal prisoners (b)—
5092016New South WalesMaleSex
5902017New South WalesMaleSex
6102018New South WalesMaleSex
5762019New South WalesMaleSex
6292020New South WalesMaleSex
6692021New South WalesMaleSex
6342022New South WalesMaleSex
6252023New South WalesMaleSex
5482024New South WalesMaleSex
5422025New South WalesMaleSex
522016New South WalesFemaleSex
532017New South WalesFemaleSex
552018New South WalesFemaleSex
472019New South WalesFemaleSex
412020New South WalesFemaleSex
302021New South WalesFemaleSex
212022New South WalesFemaleSex
242023New South WalesFemaleSex
162024New South WalesFemaleSex
302025New South WalesFemaleSex

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import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv("https://data.tidybank.net/data/abs/prisoners-in-australia/2025/table-38/tidy.csv")

Schema and semantics

Column Type Unit Semantic role Join key Distinct / range
row number — attribute No —
col number — attribute No —
address string — attribute No —
.value string — measure No —
year number — time Yes —
year_source string — attribute No —
state_or_territory string — geography Yes —
state_or_territory_source string — attribute No —
characteristic string — dimension No —
characteristic_source string — attribute No —
characteristic_group string — dimension No —
characteristic_group_source string — attribute No —

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Quality checks

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recipe-validation pass —
execution-warnings pass —
non-empty-output pass —
header-name-uniqueness pass —

Generated by seeded ; pipeline version 0.1.0.

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Coverage and lineage

Release position
1 of 5
Retrieved
2026-07-17T12:29:54.070Z
Availability
unchecked
Workbook checksum
sha256:b3d54735103ea11d7d0cc96cd3b0e413957eb53501b7ae971c299305a9c54db9

Source: https://github.com/ianmoran11/tidycell/commit/bae39c514e173be8a5b7f80ccc0fc5f3a3b54402#tidycell-path=abs-spreadsheets%2Fpeople%2Fcrime-and-justice%2Fprisoners-australia%2Flatest-release%2F4.%20Federal%20Offender%20characteristics%20-Tables%2036-39-.xlsx

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