| $ | dollars |
| '000 | thousand |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ACT | Australian Capital Territory |
| ARIA | Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia |
| ASGC | Australian Standard Geographical Classification |
| ASGS | Australian Statistical Geography Standard |
| ASNA | Australian System of National Accounts |
| ATO | Australian Taxation Office |
| Aust. | Australia |
| AWE | Average Weekly Earnings |
| CAI | computer assisted interviewing |
| cat. no. | catalogue number |
| CATI | Computer assisted telephone interviewing |
| CAPI | Computer assisted personal interviewing |
| CCB | Child Care Benefit |
| CCR | Child Care Rebate (formerly known as Child Care Tax Rebate: CCTR) |
| CNOS | Canadian National Occupancy Standard |
| COAG | Council of Australian Governments |
| COICOP | Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| CURF | confidentialised unit record file |
| DSS | Department of Social Services |
| DVA | Department of Veterans' Affairs (Australian Government ) |
| excl. | excluding |
| EDHI | Equivalised Disposable Household Income |
| ERP | estimated resident population |
| FBT | Fringe Benefits Tax |
| FISIM | financial intermediation services indirectly measured |
| FTB | Family Tax Benefit |
| GFC | global financial crisis |
| GFS | Government Finance Statistics |
| GMI | gross mixed income |
| GOS | gross operating surplus |
| GST | goods and services tax |
| HEC | Household Expenditure Classification |
| HECS | Higher Education Contribution Scheme |
| HELP | Higher Education Loan Program |
| HES | Household Expenditure Survey |
| HH | household |
| IU | income unit |
| LER | Low Economic Resource measure |
| MoE | margin of error |
| MSHI | Main source household income |
| nec | not elsewhere classified |
| nfd | not further defined |
| NHHA | National Housing and Homelessness Agreement |
| no. | number |
| NPISH | non-profit institutions serving households |
| NSW | New South Wales |
| NT | Northern Territory |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PAL | Primary Approach Letters |
| PAYG | pay-as-you-go tax |
| PBLCI | Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index |
| PHIR | Private Health Insurance Rebate |
| PPL | paid parental leave |
| Qld | Queensland |
| RA | Rent Assistance |
| RBA | Reserve Bank of Australia |
| ROGS | Report on Government Services |
| RSE | relative standard error |
| SA | South Australia |
| SA1 | Statistical Area Level 1 |
| SA4 | Statistical Area Level 4 |
| SE | standard error |
| SEIFA | Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas |
| SIH | Survey of Income and Housing |
| STIK | social transfers in kind |
| Tas. | Tasmania |
| Vic. | Victoria |
| WA | Western Australia |