ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
AIHW Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
ALLS Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey
ANCO Australian National Classification of Offences
ANZSIC Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification
ANZSCO Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations
APS Australian Public Service
APSC Australian Public Service Commission
AQF Australian Qualifications Framework
ASDR Age-specific death rate
ASOC Australian Standard Offence Classification
AST Australian Social Trends
ASX Australian Stock Exchange
Aust. Australia
BMI Body Mass Index
CPI Consumer Price Index
CRA Commonwealth rent assistance
DALYs Disability-adjusted life years
DEEWR Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
EEH Employee Earnings and Hours Survey
EOWA Equal Opportunity for Women Agency
ERP Estimated Resident Population
FaHCSIA Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
FOES Forms of Employment Survey
FTE Full-time Equivalent
GCA Graduate Council of Australia
GICS Global Industry Coding System
HES Household Expenditure Survey
ICD-10 International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision
ISDR Indirect standardised death rate
LFS Labour Force Survey
MAP Measures of Australia's Progress
MPHS Multipurpose Household Survey
MPS Monthly Population Survey
NATSIHS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey
NATSISS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey
NHMRC National Health and Medical Research Council
NHS National Health Survey
NOI National Offence Index
OFW Office for Women (FaHCSIA)
OMIE Owner manager of incorporated business
PSS Personal Safety Survey
RSE Relative Standard Error
SDR Standardised death rate
SDAC Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers
SEARS Survey of Employment Arrangements, Retirement and Superannuation
SET Survey of Education and Training
SEW Survey of Education and Work
SIH Survey of Income and Housing
TUS Time Use Survey
VET Vocational Education and Training
WHO World Health Organization

na not available
nec not elsewhere classified
nfd not further defined
np not published not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated
no. number
nya not yet available
p preliminary figure or series subject to revision
r revised
'000 thousand
$ dollar
% per cent
* estimate has a relative standard error of between 25% and 50% and should be used with caution
** estimate has a relative standard error greater than 50% and is considered too unreliable for general use
. . not applicable
— nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

Where figures have been rounded, discrepancies may occur between the sums of the component items and totals.

Unless otherwise stated, where source data used included a non-response category (i.e. not stated), data in this category have been excluded prior to the calculation of percentages. Total numbers shown with such percentages include the number of non-responses.