WHO IS THE AVERAGE AUSTRALIAN?

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics Social Trends:

Despite many people's image of the typical Australian being male, the average Australian is in fact a woman: in 2011, just over half of all people in Australia were female.Throughout most of the twentieth century, there were more men than women in Australia, but since 1979, women have slightly outnumbered men. In 1911, there were around 108 men for every 100 women, but in recent years, the sex ratio has remained relatively constant at around 99 men for every 100 women.

Much has been made in the media about the specific characteristics of this 37 year-old Australian-born married woman, living with her husband and two children (a boy and a girl aged nine and six) in a three bedroom $1,800 a month mortgaged house in the suburbs of a capital city while working as a sales assistant - with little mention of the fact that 'she' probably doesn't exist in the flesh as an average over such diverse demographic sets will almost inevitably produce a statistical myth.