| 2008 SNA | System of National Accounts, 2008 |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ACS | Australian Customs Service |
| ADPI | Attached Dwellings Price Index |
| AHECC | Australian Harmonised Export Commodity Classification |
| ALCI | Analytical Living Cost Index |
| ANZSIC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification |
| APR | arithmetic mean of price relatives, also referred to as the Carli formula |
| ASGS | Australian Statistical Geography Standard |
| ASIC | Australian Standard Industrial Classification |
| ATO | Australian Taxation Office |
| BACS | Building Activity Survey |
| BAS | Business Activity Statement |
| BEC | Classification by Broad Economic Categories |
| BoPBEC | Balance of Payments Broad Economic Classifications |
| c.i.f. | cost, insurance and freight |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| EA | elementary aggregate |
| EPI | export price index |
| Eurostat | Statistical Office of the European Communities |
| f.o.b. | free on board |
| FBT | Fringe Benefits Tax |
| GCCSA | Greater Capital City Statistical Area |
| GDP | gross domestic product |
| GDP(E) | expenditure approach to measuring GDP |
| GDP(I) | income approach to measuring GDP |
| GDP(P) | production approach to measuring GDP |
| GM | geometric mean |
| GST | goods and services tax |
| HES | Household Expenditure Survey |
| HPI | House Price Index |
| HS | Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System) |
| I-O | input-output |
| ILO | International Labour Organization |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| IOPC | Input-Output Product Classification |
| IPD | implicit price deflator |
| IPI | import price index |
| ISIC | International Standard Industrial Classification |
| ITPI | International Trade Price Index |
| NPISH | non-profit institutions serving households |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PAYG | pay-as-you-go tax |
| PBLCI | Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index |
| PPI | producer price index |
| RAP | relative of the arithmetic mean of prices, also referred to as the Dutot formula |
| RBA | Reserve Bank of Australia |
| RPPI | Residential Property Price Index |
| SDDS | Special Data Dissemination Standard |
| SITC | Standard International Trade Classification |
| SLCI | Selected Living Cost Index |
| SNA | System of National Accounts |
| SOP | Stage of Production |
| UNECE | United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
| WCO | World Customs Organization |
| WPI | wage price index |