| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ANZSCO | Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations |
| ANZSIC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification |
| AQoL | Assessment of Quality of Life |
| ASCED | Australian Standard Classification of Education |
| ASCL | Australian Standard Classification of Languages |
| ASGC | Australian Standard Geographical Classification |
| BMI | body mass index |
| CAI | computer assisted interviewing |
| CD | collection district |
| CIDI | Composite International Diagnostic Interview |
| COAG | Council of Australian Governments |
| CURF | confidentialised unit record file |
| DoHA | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| DSM-IV | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition |
| DVA | Australian Government Department of Veterans Affairs |
| GAD | Generalised Anxiety Disorder |
| GP | General Medical Practitioner |
| ICD-10 | International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision |
| kg | kilogram |
| K10 | Kessler Psychological Distress Scale |
| m | metre |
| MMSE | Mini-Mental State Examination |
| MPS | Monthly Population Survey |
| NHPA | National Health Priority Area |
| NRFUS | non-response follow-up study |
| OCD | obsessive-compulsive disorder |
| PTSD | post-traumatic stress disorder |
| RSE | relative standard error |
| SACC | Standard Australian Classification of Countries |
| SE | standard error |
| SEIFA | Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas |
| SMHWB | National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing |
| UNSW | University of New South Wales |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| WHODAS | World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule |
| WMH | World Mental Health |
| WMH–CIDI 3.0 | World Mental Health Survey Initiative version of the World Health Organization's Composite International Diagnostic Interview, Version 3.0. |