NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
March 2015	24 September 2015
June 2015	17 December 2015
September 2015	24 March 2016
December 2015	23 June 2016
March 2016	22 September 2016
June 2016	15 December 2016

NOTES REGARDING OVERSEAS ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES AND NET OVERSEAS MIGRATION (NOM) DATA

As previously advised, a number of releases of Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia (cat. no. 3401.0) have been delayed due to passenger card processing issues as announced by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP).

For contingency release schedules related to overseas arrivals and departures data please see Technical Note: Recent and Upcoming Releases. The regular schedule of Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia (cat. no. 3401.0) resumes with the May statistics on 7 July 2015.

These processing delays do not effect the NOM data in this release.


REGIONAL INTERNAL MIGRATION ESTIMATES

On 31 March 2015, the ABS released a new annual series of Regional Internal Migration Estimates (RIME) based on the Australian Statistical Geography Standard, including SA2s and LGAs. The first release of this series was for the period 2006-07 to 2013-14 and is available from the downloads tab in Migration, Australia, 2013-14 (cat. no. 3412.0).


UPCOMING CHANGES TO DATA PRESENTATION FORMATS

From 2015, Australian Demographic Statistics (cat. no. 3101.0), Migration, Australia (cat. no. 3412.0), Regional Population Growth, Australia (cat. no. 3218.0) and Population by Age and Sex, Regions of Australia (cat. no. 3235.0) will begin phasing out the release of data in SuperTable format. Data from these products will continue to be available in Excel spreadsheets and in ABS.Stat - an interactive and free online tool that presents data in a searchable, flexible and dynamic way.


RECENT AND UPCOMING RELEASES

For further information on recent and upcoming Demography releases, and innovative new ways of presenting data, see Technical Note: Recent and Upcoming Releases.

INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070.