NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
September 2014	6 November 2014
October 2014	5 December 2014
November 2014	12 January 2015
December 2014	12 February 2015
January 2015	10 March 2015
February 2015	8 April 2015

DATA NOTES

This release contains overseas movement data which should not be interpreted as 'persons'. See paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes for more detail.

The statistics in this release have been rounded. See paragraph 35 of the Explanatory Notes for more detail.


CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

Overseas arrivals and departures (OAD) data from October 2013 to July 2014 have been revised in this month's release. Investigations by the ABS uncovered a quality issue with the input data used for imputation of duration of stay, leading to a higher count of long-term visitor arrivals and a lower count of short-term visitor arrivals. For more detail, and a table showing the specific categories of movement that have changed, see the last section in the Data Quality Issues Appendix under the Explanatory Notes tab of this release.

All associated OAD time series spreadsheets and data files have been revised. The revision has not affected estimates of net overseas migration (NOM), the estimated resident population (ERP) or data used for the Labour Force time series.

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