ABBREVIATIONS
The following symbols and abbreviations are used in this publication:
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ABSCQ | Australian Bureau of Statistics Classification of Qualifications |
| AC | automatic coding |
| AIHW | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| ANZSCO | Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations |
| ANZSIC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification |
| AQF | Australian Qualifications Framework |
| ASAC | Australian Statistics Advisory Council |
| ASCCEG | Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups |
| ASCED | Australian Standard Classification of Education |
| ASCL | Australian Standard Classification of Languages |
| ASCO | Australian Standard Classification of Occupations |
| ASCRG | Australian Standard Classification of Religious Groups |
| ASGC | Australian Standard Geographical Classification |
| ASIC | Australian Standard Industrial Classification |
| CD | collection district |
| CDE | Census data enhancement |
| CDEP | Community Development Employment Projects |
| COAG | Council of Australian Governments |
| CPI | consumer price index |
| CRB | collector record book |
| CW | collector workload |
| DEWR | Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations |
| DIAC | Australian Government Department of Immigration and Citizenship |
| DPC | data processing centre |
| FaCSIA | Australian Government Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs |
| ICR | intelligent character recognition |
| LGA | local government area |
| MB | mesh block |
| OMR | optical mark recognition |
| SA | statistical area |
| SLA | statistical local area |
| SLCD | Statistical Longitudinal Census Dataset |