Australian Bureau of Statistics
Celebrating the International Year of Statistics 2013

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A confidentialised unit record file consisting of unidentified statistical records relating to 17,714 persons belonging to 11,090 income units in private and special dwellings. The statistical data for these records on the CURF are contained in two folders.

The first of these folders contains state identifiers (ACT and NT combined); household, family and income unit types; other demographic items such as age, sex, marital status, country of birth and year of arrival in Australia; highest qualifications obtained, study status and other details of education; labour force details such as industry, occupation and hours/weeks worked; details of home mortgage/loan; housing information on nature of occupancy and housing costs; dwelling structure; and for persons and income units, information on taxes and details of weekly and annual income by fine level source of income.

The second folder contains linking identifiers and 2 other items - actual hours worked in main job and actual hours worked in second job. This additional data is useful for labour market analysis purposes.

Formerly: Income Distribution Survey, Australia: Sample File on Magnetic Tape

Now only available on CD-ROM and RADL.