| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| AC | Companion of the Order of Australia |
| AHS | Australian Health Survey |
| AIHW | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| ALLS | Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey |
| AM | Member of the Order of Australia |
| ANCO | Australian National Classification of Offences |
| ANZSIC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification |
| ANZSCO | Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations |
| AO | Officer of the Order of Australia |
| APS | Australian Public Service |
| APSC | Australian Public Service Commission |
| AQF | Australian Qualifications Framework |
| ASDR | Age-specific death rate |
| ASOC | Australian Standard Offence Classification |
| AST | Australian Social Trends |
| ASX | Australian Stock Exchange |
| Aust. | Australia |
| BMI | Body Mass Index |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| CRA | Commonwealth Rent Assistance |
| DALYs | Disability-adjusted life years |
| DEEWR | Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations |
| EEH | Employee Earnings and Hours Survey |
| EOWA | Equal Opportunity for Women Agency |
| ERP | Estimated Resident Population |
| FaHCSIA | Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs |
| FOES | Forms of Employment Survey |
| FTE | Full-time Equivalent |
| GCA | Graduate Council of Australia |
| GICS | Global Industry Classification System |
| HES | Household Expenditure Survey |
| ICD-10 | International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision |
| ISDR | Indirect standardised death rate |
| LFS | Labour Force Survey |
| MAP | Measures of Australia's Progress |
| MPHS | Multipurpose Household Survey |
| MPS | Monthly Population Survey |
| NATSIHS | National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey |
| NATSISS | National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey |
| NHMRC | National Health and Medical Research Council |
| NHS | National Health Survey |
| NOI | National Offence Index |
| OAM | Medal of the Order of Australia |
| OFW | Office for Women (FaHCSIA) |
| OMIE | Owner manager of incorporated enterprise |
| PSS | Personal Safety Survey |
| RSE | Relative Standard Error |
| SDR | Standardised death rate |
| SDAC | Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers |
| SEARS | Survey of Employment Arrangements, Retirement and Superannuation |
| SET | Survey of Education and Training |
| SEW | Survey of Education and Work |
| SIH | Survey of Income and Housing |
| TUS | Time Use Survey |
| VET | Vocational Education and Training |
| WGEA | Workplace Gender Equality Agency |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
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Where figures have been rounded, discrepancies may occur between the sums of the component items and totals.
Unless otherwise stated, where source data used included a non-response category (i.e. not stated), data in this category have been excluded prior to the calculation of percentages. Total numbers shown with such percentages include the number of non-responses.