NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
December 2014	25 June 2015
March 2015	24 September 2015
June 2015	17 December 2015
September 2015	24 March 2016
December 2015	23 June 2016
March 2016	22 September 2016

NOTES REGARDING OVERSEAS ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES AND NET OVERSEAS MIGRATION (NOM) DATA

A number of releases of Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia (cat. no. 3401.0) have been delayed due to passenger card processing issues as announced by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) on their website (http://www.immi.gov.au/pub-res/Pages/statistics/overseas-arrivals-and-departures.aspx). Contingency processing plans are now in place to ensure the regular scheduled releases of these statistics can resume as soon as possible. This included the release of some preliminary OAD estimates for October, November and December 2014 on 3 March 2015, prior to the release of the full set of monthly statistics in May 2015. A similar release of preliminary OAD estimates for January, February and March 2015 will be released on 2 June 2015. For further information see Technical Note: Recent and Upcoming Releases or Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia (cat. no. 3401.0).


Temporary changes to net overseas migration modelling

September quarter NOM has been modelled using a two-year ago propensity model, to accommodate delays in passenger card processing, as announced by DIBP. For further information see paragraph 18 of the Explanatory Notes.


REGIONAL INTERNAL MIGRATION ESTIMATES

The ABS is releasing a new annual series of Regional Internal Migration Estimates (RIME) based on the Australian Statistical Geography Standard, including SA2s and LGAs. The first release of this series will be for the period 2006-07 to 2013-14, released as additional data to the publication Migration, Australia (cat. no. 3412.0) on 31 March 2015.


UPCOMING CHANGES TO DATA PRESENTATION FORMATS

From 2015, Australian Demographic Statistics (cat. no. 3101.0), Migration, Australia (cat. no. 3412.0), Regional Population Growth, Australia (cat. no. 3218.0) and Population by Age and Sex, Regions of Australia (cat. no. 3235.0) will begin phasing out the release of data in SuperTable format. Data from these products will continue to be available in Excel spreadsheets and in ABS.Stat - an interactive and free online tool that presents data in a searchable, flexible and dynamic way.


RECENT AND UPCOMING RELEASES

Household and Family Projections, Australia, 2011 to 2036 (cat. no. 3236.0) - released 19 March 2015

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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