| ABARE | Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
| ABN | Australian Business Number |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ADP | Automated Data Processing |
| AFIs | All Financial Intermediaries |
| AHECC | Australian Harmonised Export Commodity Classification |
| ANZSIC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification |
| APRA | Australian Prudential Regulation Authority |
| ASEAN | Association of South-East Asian Nations |
| ASX | Australian Stock Exchange |
| billion | thousand million |
| cat. no. | catalogue number |
| cif | cost, insurance and freight |
| CNW | Change in Net Worth |
| COICOP | Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| e.g. | example |
| etc | etcetera |
| EU | European Union |
| excl | excluding |
| fob | free on board |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GDPfc | Gross non-farm product at factor cost |
| GFCF | Gross Fixed Capital Formation |
| GFS | Government Finance Statistics |
| GG | General Government |
| Govt | Government |
| HEC | Household Expenditure Classification. The classification used to analyse the Household expenditure survey results. |
| HESA | Higher Education Support Act |
| HFCE | Household final consumption expenditure |
| HICP | Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices. An index structure devised and used by the European Union |
| ILO | International Labour Organization |
| IPD | Implicit price deflator |
| kWh | kilowatt hours |
| LFS | Labour Force Survey |
| LGAs | Local Government Areas |
| LOG | Level of government |
| LPG | liquid petroleum gas |
| Mm3 | millions of cubic metres |
| MT | mega tonne |
| M1 | Currency plus bank current deposits of the private non-bank sector |
| $m | million dollars |
| na | Not available |
| NBFI | Non-bank Financial Intermediaries |
| n.e.c. | not elsewhere classified |
| nex | Not elsewhere specified |
| NLB | Net Lending/Borrowing |
| NOB | Net Operating Balance |
| np | not published |
| NPDs | Non-private dwellings |
| NPIs | non-profit institutions |
| NW | Net Worth |
| nya | not yet available |
| OAD | Overseas arrivals and departures |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PD | Private Dwelling |
| PFC | Public Financial Corporations |
| PGFCF | Private Gross Fixed Capital formation |
| PIM | Perpetual inventory method |
| PNFC | Public Non-financial Corporations |
| PPI | Producer price index |
| RBA | Reserve Bank of Australia |
| RSE | Relative standard error |
| S&P/ASX 200 | Standard and Poor's Australian Stock Exchange top 200 |
| SDR | Special Drawing Right |
| SDR | Standardised death rates |
| SITC | Standard International Trade Classification |
| SLA | Statistical Local Area |
| SNA93 | A System of National Accounts |
| SUV | Sport Utility Vehicles |
| '000 | thousand |
| TNTS | The New Tax System |
| TWI | Trade-weighted index |
| USA | United States of America |
| VFACTS | Vehicle facts |
| 0, 0.0 | Zero or rounded to zero |