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QUALITY DECLARATION - SUMMARY

INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT

For information on the institutional environment of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), including the legislative obligations of the ABS, financing and governance arrangements, and mechanisms for scrutiny of ABS operations, please see ABS Institutional Environment.


RELEVANCE

Employment in Renewable Energy Activities, Australia (cat. no. 4631.0) presents estimates of annual direct full time equivalent (FTE) employment in renewable energy activities, by state and territory and by type of renewable energy. These estimates are the second set of official Australian estimates of FTE employment in renewable energy activities and will allow analysts to better understand employment patterns in Australia. They update and replace the first set of estimates of employment in renewable energy activities, released in April 2015.

TIMELINESS

Estimates of annual direct full time equivalent (FTE) employment in renewable energy activities contained within Employment in Renewable Energy Activities, Australia are released within 9 months of the end of the reference period.


ACCURACY

Data published in Employment in Renewable Energy Activities, Australia are considered analytically useful but are also considered experimental.


COHERENCE

This publication contains ABS estimates of employment in renewable energy activity. The definitions of employees and employment used in this publication follow the System of National Accounts and are consistent with those used throughout ABS employment statistics.


INTERPRETABILITY

The explanatory notes of this publication contain four sections, which cover:

• Scope of renewable energy activities
• Categories of renewable energy activities
• Direct and indirect employment in renewable energy activities
• Estimation methodology.