ACT College Priority Placement Areas for 2018

Priority Placement Areas for colleges in the Australian Capital Territory, as defined in 2018. The dataset was published by the ACT Government Open Data and is scheduled for archival upon the release of new schools data.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic boundaries of Priority Placement Areas to understand school catchment zones for enrollment planning.
• Map the spatial distribution of college service areas to assess community access and resource allocation.
• Integrate PPA polygon data with demographic datasets to evaluate enrollment equity across different regions.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats including XML, CSV, RDF, and JSON.
• Published by the authoritative ACT Government Open Data source.

Limitations

• The dataset is explicitly noted for archival, indicating it may be outdated or superseded.
• No sample data, column definitions, or row counts are available, limiting immediate analytical utility.

Provenance

Source

ACT Government Open Data

Collection Method

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Time Range

2018

Freshness

Last updated March 2026, though marked for archival.

Geography

Australian Capital Territory