2900.0 - Census of Population and Housing: Understanding the Census and Census Data, Australia , 2016

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Understanding the Census and Census Data How we collected your information Turning your information into Census data + Understanding Census data quality + Understanding the data + Person variables AGEP Age ANCP Ancestry Multi Response ASSNP Core Activity Need for Assistance BPFP Country of Birth of Mother BPLP Country of Birth of Person BPMP Country of Birth of Father BPPP Country of Birth of Parents CHCAREP Unpaid Child Care CITP Australian Citizenship CTGP Child Type (including grandchildren) CTPP Child Type DOMP Unpaid Domestic Work Number of Hours EETP Engagement in Employment, Education and Training EMPP Number of Employees ENGLP Proficiency in Spoken English Language ENGP Proficiency in Spoken English GNGP Public Private Sector HEAP Level of Highest Educational Attainment HRSP Hours Worked HSCP Highest Year of School Completed INCP Total Personal Income (weekly) INDP Industry of Employment INGP Indigenous Status LANP Language Spoken at Home LFHRP Labour Force Status and Hours Worked Not Stated LFSP Labour Force Status MDCP Social Marital Status MSTP Registered Marital Status MTWP Method of Travel to Work OCCP Occupation POWP Place of Work PUR1P Place of Usual Residence One Year Ago PUR5P Place of Usual Residence Five Years Ago PURP Place of Usual Residence QALFP Non-School Qualification Field of Study QALLP Non-School Qualification Level of Education RELP Religious Affiliation RLCP Relationship as Reported for Couples RLGP Relationship in Household (including grandchildren) RLHP Relationship in Household RLNP Residential Status in a Non-Private Dwelling RPIP Family Household Reference Person Indicator SEXP Sex SIEMP Status in Employment SLPP Sex of Lone Parent STUP Full-Time Part-Time Student Status TISP Number of Children Ever Born TYPP Type of Educational Institution Attending TYSTAP Educational Institution Attendee Status UAI1P Usual Address One Year Ago Indicator UAI5P Usual Address Five Years Ago Indicator UAICP Usual Address Indicator Census Night UNCAREP Unpaid Assistance to a Person with a Disability VOLWP Voluntary Work for an Organisation or Group YARP Year of Arrival in Australia CDPP Community Development Programme Participation Distance to Work National Indigenous Reform Agreement (NIRA) Indicators OPGP Homelessness Operational Groups + Family variables + Dwelling variables + Conceptual information About this Release History of Changes	Usual Address One Year Ago Indicator (UAI1P) This variable records whether a person lived in the same address one year ago as their current usual residence, whether they lived elsewhere in Australia one year ago, or whether they usually lived in another country one year ago. This variable is applicable for all usual residents of Australia, except for persons aged less than one year. How this variable is created Data for this variable is derived from the question of where the person usually lived one year ago. An image of this question is provided below. The responses to this question are captured automatically from mark box responses on the form. Where the indicator mark boxes have been left blank by a respondent but they have reported an address one year ago, Usual Address One Year Ago Indicator is derived based on the address reported. If the respondent does not report either the indicator or the address, they will be set to not stated. However, where a person who is aged under 16 years (i.e. they were aged under 15 years one year ago) does not respond to the usual address one year ago question, but their parent(s) did respond, their Usual Address One Year Ago Indicator is set to the same value as their parent. For Interviewer Household Forms (IHF), primarily used in discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, the response options on the form are different. Instead of asking if respondents lived in their place of usual residence one year ago, the form asks if people lived in 'this dwelling' (i.e. the dwelling in which they were enumerated), 'another dwelling in this community', or 'elsewhere, please specify' . The data is re-derived to ensure that the data is comparable to those enumerated using other form types. For Interviewer Household Forms, mobility is considered at the community level rather than at the individual dwelling level. Variable history The question relating to the Usual Address One Year Ago Indicator was first asked in the 1976 Census and has been asked at every census since then. The date listed for one year ago was updated. Non-response rate The majority of item non-response is attributable to the people who did not respond to the Census at all. Refer to item non-response rates for more information. The second and smaller contributor to item non-response is when people return a Census form but may not answer a particular question(s). For more information, refer to Understanding Census data quality. Item non-response rates are a measure of how many people did not respond to a particular question as a proportion of the total number of people the question was applicable to. In this instance the response is left as not stated. The non-response rate for this variable was 8.3% in 2016 (5.1% in 2011). Further information More information on Usual Address 1 year Ago is available in the 2016 Census Dictionary. For more information related to Usual Address One Year Ago Indicator, see the data quality statements for Place of Usual Residence, Place of Usual Residence One Year Ago, Place of Usual Residence Five Years Ago, Usual Address Five Years Ago Indicator. Household form question image Question 9 as it appeared on the 2016 Census Household Paper Form: A text only version of the online Census Household form is available from the Downloads tab. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.