1001.0 - Australian Bureau of Statistics -- Annual Report, 2013-14  
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AATSIHS Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey

ABARES Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences

ABR Australian Business Register

ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics

ABS cat. no. ABS catalogue number

ABW activity based workplace

ACIN Australian Community Indicators Network

ACLD Australian Census Longitudinal Dataset

ACMID Australian Census and Migrants Integrated Dataset

ACT Australian Capital Territory

ADPI Attached Dwelling Price Index

AEDI Australian Early Development Index

AGSF Australian Government Statistical Forum

AMP Agency Multicultural Plan

ANZSOC Australian and New Zealand Standard Offence Classification

APCAS Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics

APP Australian Privacy Principles

APRA Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

APS Australian Public Service

ASAC Australian Statistics Advisory Council

ASGS Australian Statistical Geography Standard

ATSI Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

AURIN Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network

BAU business-as-usual

BLD Business Longitudinal Database

BPS Badan Pusat Statistik (Statistics Indonesia)

CDE Census Data Enhancement

Census Census of Population and Housing, conducted every five years under the authority of the Census and Statistics Act 1905. The Census aims to measure accurately the number of people and dwellings in Australia on Census Night, and a range of their key characteristics.

COAG Council of Australian Governments

COICOP Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose

CPI Consumer Price Index

CRVS Civil Registration and Vital Statistics

CSB Customer Services Branch

CURF Confidentialised Unit Record File

CVRS Civil Registrations and Vital Statistics

DACB Data Acquisition and Collection Branch

DCU Data Collection Unit

DFAT Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

DGS Directorate General of Statistics, Timor Leste

DIBP Department of Immigration and Border Protection

DPF Development and Performance Framework

DSBB IMF Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board

ECE Economic Commission for Europe (UN)

EG–ISGI Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information (UN)

ELG Executive Leadership Group

EMS Environmental Management System

ESA Essential Statistical Assets

ESCAP Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN)

ESI Essential Statistical Infrastructure

FMS Freight Movement Survey

FOI Freedom of Information

FSDF Foundation Spatial Data Framework

FTE Full Time Employee

FWE flexible working environment

GDP Gross Domestic Product

GFC global financial crisis

GFS government finance statistics

Global Worming Global Worming is a worm farm at ABS House

GSIM Generic Statistical Information Model

HIES Household Income and Expenditure Survey

HPI House price index

HR Human Resources

IAOS International Association for Official Statistics

ICAS International Conference on Agricultural Statistics

ICD International Classification of Diseases

ICES Indigenous Community Engagement Strategy

ICT information and communication technology

IEM Indigenous Engagement Managers

IMF International Monetary Fund

iSTAT National Institute of Statistics, Italy

IT Information technology

ITAB International Technical Advisory Board

ITPIs International Trade Price Indexes

IYOS International Year of Statistics

KPIs key performance indicators

LFS Labour Force Survey

LNG Liquefied natural gas

MAP Measure of Australia’s Progress

MFP multifactor productivity

MIAD Methodologies for an Integrated Use of Administrative Data

MPS Monthly Population Survey

MRR metadata registry and repository

N/A not applicable

NaPLAN National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy

NASIS National Agricultural Statistical Information System

NASR National Agricultural Statistics Review

NATSISS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey

NCCRS National Centre for Culture and Recreation Statistics

NMSU National Migrant Statistics Unit

NPI non-profit institutions

NSO National Statistical Organisation

NSS National Statistical Service

NSW New South Wales

NT Northern Territory

NTDS National Training and Development Section

OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

onboarding Use of electronic resources for employee induction and familiarisation

PBLCI Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index

PCF People Capability Framework

PMF Project Management Framework

PMO Program Management Office

PPIs Producer Price Indexes

QLD Queensland

R&D research and development

REASP Rural Environment and Agriculture Statistics Program

RPPI Residential Property Price Index

SA South Australia

SCCD Statistical Capability and Capacity Development program

SCH Statistical Clearing House

SDB Settlement Data Base

SDDS IMF Special Data Dissemination Standard

SEEA System of Environmental-Economic Accounting

SEEA–AA System of Environmental-Economic Accounting: Applications and Extensions

SES Senior Executive Service

SFIC Strategic Finance and Investment Committee

SIAP Statistics Institute of Asia and the Pacific (UN)

SLCIs Selected Living Cost Indexes

SMG Senior Management Group

SMVU Survey of Motor Vehicle Use

SNZ Statistics New Zealand

SSF State Statistical Forum

SSF Statistical Spatial Framework

STEM science, technology, engineering and maths

STSS State and Territory Statistical Services

TAS Tasmania

TETIA Transforming Education and Training Information in Australia

TSA Tourism Satellite Account

TSD Technology Services Division

TYPSS Ten Year Pacific Statistics Strategy

UK United Kingdom

UN United Nations

UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

UN EG–ISGI United Nations Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information

UNESCAP UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

UN–GGIM United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management

UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

UNSC United Nations Statistical Commission

UNSD United Nations Statistics Division

USA United States of America

VET Vocational Education and Training

VIC Victoria

WA Western Australia

WAVES Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services

WHS work health and safety

WPI Wage Price Index