ABSTRACT Much has changed since the first mapping of single-sex couples and families from the 2006 Australian census. An increasing willingness to allow their identification in the census has accompanied increasing public acceptance of same-sex couples culminating in significant support for legalising same-sex marriage in a 2017 national survey. Technological advances permit complex cross-tabulations of Australian census data and more detailed characterisations of same-sex couples. New geographies differentiate between male and female couples with children, showing same-sex couples are not just a feature of some inner-city areas, though these remain important, but also of suburban, regional and some rural areas. Drawing on the 2016 census, contemporary geographies of same-sex couples with and without children in Australia and changes over the past decade in Sydney are analysed at a time of increased interest in this demographic.

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澳大利亚同性伴侣和家庭的地理分布：实证研究

摘要 自从 2006 年澳大利亚人口普查首次绘制单性夫妇和家庭地图以来，情况发生了很大变化。随着公众越来越愿意在人口普查中识别他们的身份，同性伴侣的接受度越来越高，最终在 2017 年的全国调查中大力支持同性婚姻合法化。技术进步允许澳大利亚人口普查数据的复杂交叉表和同性伴侣的更详细特征。新的地域对有孩子的男女夫妇进行了区分，表明同性伴侣不仅是一些市中心地区的特征，尽管这些地区仍然很重要，但郊区、区域和一些农村地区也是如此。根据 2016 年人口普查，