Age
This is the reported age of a person on their last birthday.
Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED)
The ASCED is a new national standard classification which includes all sectors of the Australian education system, that is, schools, vocational education and training, and higher education. From 2001, ASCED replaced a number of classifications used in administrative and statistical systems, including the ABS Classification of Qualifications (ABSCQ). The ASCED comprises two classifications: Level of Education and Field of Education. See Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED), 2001 (cat. no. 1272.0).
Balance of Queensland Major Statistical Region (MSR)
See Statistical region.
Brisbane Major Statistical Region (MSR)
See Statistical region.
Cared accommodation
Cared accommodation includes hospitals, homes for the aged such as nursing homes and aged-care hostels, cared components of retirement villages, and other 'homes', such as children's homes.
Compact disk (CD) burner
A CD drive that is capable of writing data to a CD via a small laser. The process if often referred to as "burning".
Compact disk read only memory (CD ROM) equipment
Refers to CD drives that read digital data for use by a computer.
Computer
Portable, desktop and dedicated computers, and items such as pocket computers or 'personal organisers' which can be plugged into larger computers, are considered to be computers if they are usually in working order.
Computer access
This refers to use of a computer in the 12 months prior to interview.
Digital versatile disk (DVD) drive
A device that can read information from a DVD. One of the best features of DVD drives is that they can play DVDs, CD-ROMs, CD-I, and video CD disks.
Digital versatile disk read only memory (DVD ROM)
DVD-ROM format is intended to distribute computer games and other software as well as a medium for distributing films. A DVD-ROM disk has 12 times the capacity of a CD-ROM disk providing superior graphics and sound to computers.
Electronic banking
Refers to online banking or Internet banking. A term used for performing transactions, payments, etc., over the Internet through a secure website.
Employed
See Labour force status.
Hardware
The physical components of a computer system. Reference is often made to "hardware" and "software"; in that context, "hardware" consists of the computer, input and output devices and other peripheral equipment. Software is the programs that run on a computer.
Highest educational attainment
Identifies the highest achievement a person has attained in any area of study. It is not a measurement of the relative importance of different fields of study, but a ranking of qualifications and other educational attainments regardless of the particular area of study or the type of institution at which the study was undertaken.
Hobbies
Refers to a spare-time recreational pursuit.
Household
A group of one or more persons in a private dwelling who consider themselves to be separate from other persons (if any) in the dwelling, and who make regular provision to take meals separately from other persons, i.e. at other times or in different rooms. Lodgers who receive accommodation but not meals are treated as separate households. Boarders who receive both accommodation and meals are not treated as separate households. A household may consist of any number of family and non-family members.
Household computer use
Households where any member of the household uses a computer at home at least once a week during the survey period.
Household income
Household income is the sum of personal income from all members of the household aged 18 years and over.
Internet
A facility that enables the user to access a wide range of information facilities, home pages or websites and allows users to send and receive electronic mail (email) messages.
Internet access
The method by which users connect to the Internet.
Labour force status
A classification of the civilian population aged 18 years and over into employed, unemployed or not in the labour force.
An employed household is defined as having at least one employed person living there.
Employed persons are aged 18 years and over who, during the reference week:
- worked for one hour or more for pay, profit, commission or payment in kind, in a job or business or on a farm (comprising employees, employers and own account workers); or
- worked for one hour or more without pay in a family business or on a farm (i.e. contributing family workers).
Employed are also defined as employees who had a job but were not at work and were:
- away from work for less than four weeks up to the end of the reference week; or
- away from work for more than four weeks up to the end of the reference week and received pay for some or all of the four week period to the end of the reference week; or
- away from work as a standard work or shift arrangement; or
- on strike or locked out; or
- on workers’ compensation and expected to be returning to their job; or
- were employers or own account workers, who had a job, business or farm, but were not at work.
An unemployed household is defined as having at least one unemployed person living there.
Unemployed persons are defined as those who had actively looked for full-time or part-time work at any time in the four weeks up to the end of the reference week and:
- were available for work in the reference week; or
- were waiting to start a new job within four weeks from the end of the reference week, and could have started in the reference week if the job had been available then.
A household not in the labour force is defined as having at least one person not in the labour force living there.
Persons not in the labour force are aged 18 years and over who were not employed or unemployed, as defined. They include persons who were keeping house (unpaid) and persons who are retired, voluntarily inactive, or permanently unable to work.
Mobile phone
Refers to a device which behaves as a normal telephone whilst being able to move over a wide area (compare with a cordless phone which acts as a telephone only within a limited range). Mobile phones allow connections to be made to the telephone network, normally by directly dialling the other party's number on an inbuilt keypad.
Modem
A device which connects the computer to a telephone system enabling communication between two computers.
Not in the labour force
See Labour force status.
Occupation
For people who worked as a wage or salary earner, it was the occupation in his/her job with their employer. For those who worked in their own business, it was their occupation in that business. An occupation is a set of jobs with similar sets of tasks. In practice, an occupation is a collection of jobs sufficiently similar in their main tasks (in terms of skill level and specialisation) to be grouped together for classification purposes. Occupation was classified to Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO), Second Edition, 1997 (Cat. no. 1220.0).
Online banking
See Electronic Banking.
Pager
One-way communications device in which the intended receiver is alerted to receive a message or return a phone call.
Pay television (TV)
A TV system providing programs which are available only to the households who subscribe, usually transmitted via coaxial cable or telephone lines.
Person income
Refers to Gross Personal income from all sources and includes government pensions/benefits, workers compensation, royalties, rent, etc. It excludes money from the sale of assets, gambling, lottery wins, gifts, bequests or lump sum settlements.
Peripheral equipment
This term includes equipment which must be plugged into the computer, e.g., printers, character/image readers or scanners, modems and other equipment such as additional external disk or tape drives.
Printer
Refers to a device used for printing computer output.
Scanner
A device which scans printed text or graphics and presents it as an image which can be read by a computer or communications network.
Software
See Hardware.
Statistical region
Equates to Brisbane Major Statistical Region (MSR) and Balance of Queensland MSR.
Brisbane MSR includes the statistical regions of:
- Brisbane City Inner Ring
- Brisbane City Outer Ring
- South and East Brisbane Statistical Division (BSD) Balance
- North and West BSD Balance
Balance of Queensland MSR includes any area outside the Brisbane MSR.
For more detail refer to the Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) (cat. no. 1216.0).
Unemployed
See Labour force status.
Voicemail
The term used for mobile and cellular voice message services. Calls are diverted to Voicemail when the user is unavailable or has the phone powered off. The phone indicates the receipt of a message.
Webcam
A cam, homecam, or webcam is a video camera, usually attached directly to a computer, whose current or latest image is requestable from a website. A live cam is one that is continually providing new images that are transmitted in rapid succession or, in some cases, in streaming video.
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