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    "http://www.w3.org/ns/csvw",
    {
      "@language": "en-AU"
    }
  ],
  "url": "data.csv",
  "dc:title": "Age Pension recipients and Australian residents aged 65 and over, since 2013",
  "dc:source": "https://retirementwealth.com.au/charts/age-pension-recipients/",
  "dc:modified": {
    "@value": "2026-10-24",
    "@type": "xsd:date"
  },
  "notes": [
    {
      "rdfs:comment": "Age Pension recipients and Australian residents aged 65 and over, since 2013. Retirement Wealth, https://retirementwealth.com.au/charts/age-pension-recipients/"
    },
    {
      "rdfs:comment": "Counts of people, as published. age_pension_recipients is the Department of Social Services' national total of Age Pension recipients at or near the end of the quarter, as at recipients_as_at: recipients paid by Services Australia (Age Pension recipients paid by the Department of Veterans' Affairs, and DVA's own payments such as the service pension, are not in it). Each population column is the ABS estimated resident population of Australia at that age and over at the end of the quarter, summed from the ABS estimates by single year of age; the ABS revises these estimates, and the status column gives each one's revision status."
    },
    {
      "rdfs:comment": "Age Pension recipients: Department of Social Services, Australian Government, DSS Benefit and Payment Recipient Demographics - quarterly data, sourced on 24 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/dss-payment-demographic-data, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU)."
    },
    {
      "rdfs:comment": "Population estimates: Australian Bureau of Statistics (March 2026) National, state and territory population, https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/national-state-and-territory-population/mar-2026, ABS Website, accessed 24 October 2026. CC BY 4.0."
    },
    {
      "rdfs:comment": "Retirement Wealth provides selected factual information about Australian retirement rules and rates. It does not provide personal or general financial product advice or recommend financial products. Summaries may not cover every condition or exception. Check the linked official sources and obtain advice appropriate to your circumstances before making financial decisions."
    }
  ],
  "tableSchema": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "name": "quarter",
        "titles": "quarter",
        "datatype": "string",
        "required": true,
        "dc:description": "The quarter, as YYYY-Qn: 2026-Q2 is the June 2026 quarter."
      },
      {
        "name": "quarter_end",
        "titles": "quarter_end",
        "datatype": "date",
        "required": true,
        "dc:description": "The last day of the quarter."
      },
      {
        "name": "age_pension_recipients",
        "titles": "age_pension_recipients",
        "datatype": "integer",
        "dc:description": "Age Pension recipients, Australia: the number of recipients at or near the end of each quarter, as at the department's extraction date, from the table of payment recipients by payment type and state and territory in the DSS Benefit and Payment Recipient Demographics quarterly data. Empty where the department has not published the quarter."
      },
      {
        "name": "recipients_as_at",
        "titles": "recipients_as_at",
        "datatype": "date",
        "dc:description": "The date the count is as at: the department's extraction date in the quarter."
      },
      {
        "name": "recipients_source",
        "titles": "recipients_source",
        "datatype": "anyURI",
        "dc:description": "The department's file the count was read from."
      },
      {
        "name": "population_65_plus",
        "titles": "population_65_plus",
        "datatype": "integer",
        "dc:description": "Estimated resident population of Australia aged 65 years and over, persons, at the end of each quarter, summed from the ABS estimates by single year of age. Empty where the ABS has not published the quarter."
      },
      {
        "name": "population_65_plus_status",
        "titles": "population_65_plus_status",
        "datatype": "string",
        "dc:description": "The ABS's revision status of the estimate: preliminary, revised or final."
      },
      {
        "name": "population_67_plus",
        "titles": "population_67_plus",
        "datatype": "integer",
        "dc:description": "Estimated resident population of Australia aged 67 years and over, persons, at the end of each quarter, summed from the ABS estimates by single year of age. Empty where the ABS has not published the quarter."
      },
      {
        "name": "population_67_plus_status",
        "titles": "population_67_plus_status",
        "datatype": "string",
        "dc:description": "The ABS's revision status of the estimate: preliminary, revised or final."
      },
      {
        "name": "population_release",
        "titles": "population_release",
        "datatype": "string",
        "dc:description": "The ABS release the population estimates were read from."
      },
      {
        "name": "population_source",
        "titles": "population_source",
        "datatype": "anyURI",
        "dc:description": "The ABS Data API request the population estimates were read from."
      }
    ],
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    ]
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}