Abbreviations
Latest release
Survey of Income and Housing, User Guide, Australia
Reference period
2019-20 financial year
Released
28/04/2022
| $ | Dollars |
| '000 | Thousand |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ACT | Australian Capital Territory |
| ACCS | Additional Child Care Subsidy |
| ARIA | Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia |
| ASGC | Australian Standard Geographical Classification |
| ASGS | Australian Statistical Geography Standard |
| ASNA | Australian System of National Accounts |
| ATO | Australian Taxation Office |
| Aust. | Australia |
| AWE | Average Weekly Earnings |
| CAI | Computer Assisted Interviewing |
| cat. no. | Catalogue number |
| CATI | Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing |
| CAPI | Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing |
| CAWI | Computer Assisted Web Interviewing |
| CCB | Child Care Benefit |
| CCR | Child Care Rebate (formerly known as Child Care Tax Rebate: CCTR) |
| CCS | Child Care Subsidy |
| CNOS | Canadian National Occupancy Standard |
| COAG | Council of Australian Governments |
| COICOP | Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose |
| COVID-19 | Coronavirus disease of 2019 |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| CURF | Confidentialised Unit Record File |
| DSS | Department of Social Services |
| DVA | Department of Veterans' Affairs (Australian Government ) |
| excl. | Excluding |
| EDHI | Equivalised Disposable Household Income |
| ERP | Estimated resident population |
| FBT | Fringe Benefits Tax |
| FISIM | Financial intermediation services indirectly measured |
| FTB | Family Tax Benefit |
| GFC | Global financial crisis |
| GFS | Government Finance Statistics |
| GMI | Gross mixed income |
| GOS | Gross operating surplus |
| GST | Goods and services tax |
| HEC | Household Expenditure Classification |
| HECS | Higher Education Contribution Scheme |
| HELP | Higher Education Loan Program |
| HES | Household Expenditure Survey |
| HH | Household |
| IU | Income unit |
| LER | Low Economic Resource measure |
| MoE | Margin of Error |
| MSHI | Main Source of Household Income |
| nec | Not elsewhere classified |
| nfd | Not further defined |
| NHHA | National Housing and Homelessness Agreement |
| no. | Number |
| NPISH | Non-profit institutions serving households |
| NSW | New South Wales |
| NT | Northern Territory |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PAL | Primary Approach Letters |
| PAYG | Pay-as-you-go tax |
| PBLCI | Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index |
| PHIR | Private Health Insurance Rebate |
| PPL | Paid Parental Leave |
| Qld | Queensland |
| RA | Rent Assistance |
| RBA | Reserve Bank of Australia |
| ROGS | Report on Government Services |
| RSE | Relative Standard Error |
| SA | South Australia |
| SA1 | Statistical Area Level 1 |
| SA4 | Statistical Area Level 4 |
| SE | Standard Error |
| SEIFA | Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas |
| SIH | Survey of Income and Housing |
| STIK | Social Transfers In Kind |
| Tas. | Tasmania |
| Vic. | Victoria |
| WA | Western Australia |