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Census of Population and Housing: Census dictionary
2021
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A
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
Address
Adopted child
Australian born
Australian Census longitudinal dataset (ACLD)
Australian residents temporarily overseas
Average persons per household
B
Boarding school student
C
Caravans
Census and Statistics Act 1905
Census counts
Census date
Census time capsule
Child
Confidentiality
Contributing family worker
Couple family
D
Data processing
Derivation
Destination zone
Dwelling
E
Employed
Employee
Estimated Resident Population (ERP)
Ethnicity
F
Family
First generation Australians
Foster child
G
Geography
Government benefits, pensions and allowances
Group household
H
Homelessness enumeration
Hotdecking
Household
Household form
I
Improvised home
Imputation
Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR)
Internal migration
Interviewer Household Form
Introduced random error/perturbation
J
Job
L
Labour force
Lone parent
Lone person household
Long-term health condition(s)
M
Manufactured home estates
Marital status
Median income
Mnemonics
Multiple family households
N
Name
Name and address retention
Name of employer
Negative income
Nominal child
Non-family member
Non-response
Not in the labour force
O
One-parent family
Or equivalent level of education
Other family
Other related individual
Overseas born
Owner managers
P
Parent
Parent-child relationship
Partner
Part-time work
Personal form
Place of enumeration
Post Census Review (PCR)
Post Enumeration Survey (PES)
R
Recodes and user defined fields
S
Same-sex couple
Second generation Australians
Self-enumeration
Special purpose codes
Special short form
Step child
Supplementary codes
T
Temporarily absent
Third-plus generation Australians
U
Undercount and/or underenumeration
Unemployed
Unit record file
Unrelated individual living in a family household
Usual residence
V
Visitors to a household
Visitors to Australia
W
Working population
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