NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
March 2016	22 September 2016
June 2016	15 December 2016
September 2016	23 March 2017
December 2016	22 June 2017
March 2017	28 September 2017
June 2017	19 December 2017

NORFOLK ISLAND DATA

In preparation for the administrative reforms to Norfolk Island which comes into effect on 1 July 2016, population data for Norfolk Island are being released in Table 8 for the first time. For further information see Explanatory Note 3.


NET OVERSEAS MIGRATION - PROCESSING CHANGES AND DATA UPDATES

The Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) is progressively rolling out new technologies to streamline and strengthen border operations. Coinciding with the roll-out of Departure SmartGates there has been an increase in outgoing passenger cards not being collected due to passengers failing to place their cards into the drop boxes.

To address recent and previous increases in missing passenger cards the ABS has introduced a new method to the Overseas Arrivals and Departures system to accommodate higher numbers of missing cards. As previously advised the introduction of the improvements would lead to additional revisions in this release of Australian Demographic Statistics (cat. no. 3101.0). These revisions have effected NOM from December quarter 2014 to September quarter 2015 and consequently ERP for the same quarters. For further information see paragraph 16 - 18 of the Explanatory Notes.


RECENT AND UPCOMING RELEASES

Information Paper: Measuring Overcount and Undercount in the 2016 Population Census (cat. no. 2940.0.55.002) - to be released 1 July 2016.

Population by Age and Sex, Regions of Australia, 2015 (cat. no. 3235.0) - to be released 18 August 2016.

For further information on recent and upcoming Demography releases, and innovative new ways of presenting data, see Technical Note: Recent and Upcoming Releases.


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