How admin income estimates are created

This section presents the approaches used to calculate admin income estimates. These approaches were developed with reference to the ABS income standard. This improves their comparability with SIH and Census incomes. There are two main steps in creating estimates:

The first step (1) describes, by PLIDA admin data source, how income estimates are created for each relevant income type. 

The second step (2) describes how the estimates produced in the first step are compiled into a total admin income estimate. Depending on whether an estimate is intended for comparison against SIH or Census, this compilation is achieved in different ways, owing to differences between these collections, such as data availability, reference periods, and how SIH alone applies treatments for missing data.