| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ARIMA | autoregressive integrated moving average |
| DIBP | Australian Government Department of Immigration and Border Protection |
| ERP | estimated resident population |
| GFC | global financial crisis |
| GST | Goods and Services Tax |
| IPC | incoming passenger card |
| LTRD | long-term resident departure |
| LTRR | long-term resident return |
| LTVA | long-term visitor arrival |
| LTVD | long-term visitor departure |
| MEDB | Medicare Enrolments Database |
| nec | not elsewhere classified |
| nfd | not further defined |
| NOM | net overseas migration |
| NZ | New Zealand |
| OAD | overseas arrivals and departures |
| OPC | outgoing passenger card |
| PA | permanent arrival |
| ROADS | rebuild of the OAD system |
| SACC | Standard Australian Classification of Countries |
| SAR | Special Administrative Region |
| STRD | short-term resident departure |
| STRR | short-term resident return |
| STVA | short-term visitor arrival |
| STVD | short-term visitor departure |
| TRIPS | Travel and Immigration Processing System |
| UK, CIs & IOM | United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man |
| USA | United States of America |