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FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
September 2014	4 December 2014
December 2014	26 March 2015

ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION

This publication presents information on persons in custody and persons serving community-based corrections orders under the authority of corrective services agencies. The statistics are derived from information provided to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) from administrative records held by corrective services agencies in each state and territory, and from the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department for details on federal prisoners. Details are provided for each state and territory on: prisoner numbers and imprisonment rates by type of custody; prisoner numbers by legal status for all prisoners and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners; the number of sentenced receptions into custody; the number of federal prisoners; the number and rate of persons serving community-based corrections orders; and data on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status of persons in community-based corrections.

The ABS acknowledges the valuable contribution of the Board of Management and the Advisory Group of the National Corrective Services Statistics Unit as well as the staff of the various agencies that provide the statistics that are presented in this publication.


UPDATED POPULATION ESTIMATES FOR THE CALCULATION OF RATES

From 2011, the imprisonment and community-based corrections rates for total adult population are calculated using Estimated Resident Population (ERP) data based on the 2011 Census of Population and Housing.

The adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment and community-based corrections rates were revised from 2011 onwards, following the release of Estimates and Projections, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 2001 to 2026 (cat. no. 3238.0). This change means rates from 2011 onwards are not comparable to earlier imprisonment rates.


ROUNDING

The figures in this publication may be subject to rounding.


FURTHER INFORMATION

More information about ABS activities in the field of crime and justice statistics is available from the Crime and Justice theme page on the ABS website www.abs.gov.au. Details of other ABS publications relating to Crime and Justice statistics can be found in the Related Information tab.


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