| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ABSCQ | ABS Classification of Qualifications |
| ACER | Australian Council for Education Research |
| ACLC | Australian Culture and Leisure Classification |
| AF | Aetiological Fractions |
| AGSP | Australian Government Printing Service |
| AIC | Australian Institute of Criminology |
| AIDR | Australian Illicit Drug Report |
| AIHW | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| ANZ | Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited |
| ANZSIC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification |
| ANZSPC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Product Classification |
| ASCDC | Australian Standard Classification of Drugs of Concern |
| ASCED | Australian Standard Classification of Education |
| ASCO | Australian Standard Classification of Occupations |
| ASGC | Australian standard Geographical classification |
| ASNA | Australian System of National Accounts |
| ASOC | Australian Standard Offence Classification |
| ATO | Australian Taxation Office |
| AusDiab | Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study |
| AWE | Average Weekly Earnings |
| BEACH | Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health |
| BRS | Bureau of Rural Sciences |
| Canberra Group | International Expert Group on Household Income Statistics |
| CD | Census Collection District |
| CDEP | Community Development Employment Projects |
| CDNANZ | Communicable Diseases Network Australia New Zealand |
| CHINS | Community Housing and Infrastructure Needs Survey |
| CIDI | Composite International Diagnostic Instrument |
| COAG | Council of Australian Governments |
| COMIMA | Council of Ministers of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| CSDA | Commonwealth State Disability Agreement |
| CSDA MDS | Commonwealth State Disability Agreement Minimum Data Set |
| DAA | Department of Aboriginal Affairs |
| DALY | Disability Adjusted Life Year measure |
| DETYA | Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs |
| DEWRSB | Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business |
| DFACS | The Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services |
| DHAC | Department of Health and Aged Care |
| DIMA | Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs |
| DSM-IV | Diagnostic Statistical Manual |
| DSRU | Dental Statistics and Research Unit |
| ERP | Estimated Resident Population |
| ESCAP | Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GFS | Government Financial Statistics |
| GP | General Practitioner |
| GPSCU | General Practitioner Statistics Collection Unit |
| HACC | Home and Community Care program |
| HECS | Higher Education Contribution Scheme |
| HES | Household Expenditure Survey |
| HILDA | Household, Income and Labour Dynamics survey |
| ICD | International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems |
| ICD-10 | International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems - 10th revision |
| ICECI | International Classification of External Causes of Injury |
| ICF | International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health |
| ICIDH | International Classification of Impairment, Disability and Handicap |
| ICPC2 | International Classification of Primary Care, second revision |
| ICW | Income, Consumption and Wealth framework |
| ILO | International Labour Organisation |
| LFS | Labour Force Survey |
| LGA | Local Government Area |
| LSAY | Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth |
| MCEETYA | Ministerial Council for Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs |
| MPS | Monthly Population Survey |
| NATSEM | National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling |
| NCCH | National Centres for Classification in Health |
| NCSCH | National Cancer Statistics Clearing House |
| NCSIMG | National Community Services Information Management Group |
| NCVER | National Centre for Vocational Education Research |
| NH&MRC | National Health and Medical Research Council |
| NHDD | National Health Data Dictionary |
| NHIM | National Health Information Model |
| NHIMG | National Health Information Management Group |
| NHMP | National Homicide Monitoring Program |
| NHPA | National Health Priority Areas |
| NHPC | National Health Performance Framework |
| NHPF | National Health Performance Framework |
| NHS | National Health Survey |
| NOHSC | National Occupational Health and Safety Commission |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PBS | Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule |
| PES | Post Enumeration Survey |
| PHEC | Private Hospitals Establishment Collection |
| QEAS | Quarterly Economic Activity Survey |
| SAAP | Supported Accommodation Assistance Program |
| SAL | ABS Survey of Aspects of Literacy |
| SAM | Social Accounting Matrix |
| SCRCSSP | Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth / State Service Provision |
| SEAS | Survey of Employment Arrangements and Superannuation |
| SEE | Survey of Employment and Earnings |
| SEIF | Socioeconomic indexes for areas |
| ASET | Survey of Education and Training |
| SLA | Statistical Local Area |
| SNA | System of National Accounts |
| SNA93 | System of National Accounts (most recent standards, 1993) |
| STIK | Social Transfers In Kind |
| TAFE | Technical and Further Education |
| TIMSS | Trends in Mathematics and Science Studies |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation |
| VET | Vocational Education and Training |
| WAD | Workplace Agreements Database |
| WCI | Wage Cost Index |
| WHO | World Health Organisation |