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| Friday 24 May 2013 |
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| Monday 27 May 2013 |
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| 1379.0.55.001 |
National Regional Profile, 2007 to 2011
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The National Regional Profile (NRP) presents, for all Australia, a range of data for various types of small regions. Data are available for Local Government Areas, new Australian Statistical Geography Standard regions (Statistical Areas 2, 3 and 4, and Greater Capital City Statistical Areas) and State/Territory.
The NRP is designed for users interested in the socio-economic and environmental characteristics of regions - and in comparing these with similar regions across Australia.
Data are presented as a five year time series, where available. These data are organised under the broad topics of Economy, Population/People, Industry, and Environment/Energy.
Data for individual regions are available as web pages and Excel spreadsheets. Users can search for a particular region by name or by clicking on a map.
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| Tuesday 28 May 2013 |
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4177.0.55.002
Additional Information |
Microdata: Participation in Sport and Physical Recreation, Australia, 2011-12
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Survey Tablebuilder File will be released late May 2013.
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4235.0.55.001
First Issue |
Microdata: Learning and Work, Australia, 2010-11
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The following microdata products are available from the Learning and Work topic on the 2010-11 Multipurpose Household Survey: - Survey TableBuilder
Apply online for access to this product at www.abs.gov.au/about/microdata.
The products provide data about the educational history of people aged 15 years and over and its impact on and relevance to their working lives. Data collected includes the level and field of each qualification, year of completion and whether the qualification was attained in Australia. Further information was collected on the relevance of each qualification to a person’s current job, the impact on working life in the first six months after completion and cultural background. Also includes relevant standard demographic, labour force and other socio-economic details.
The microdata enables users to tabulate, manipulate and analyse data. Steps to confidentialise the dataset are taken to ensure the integrity of data and maintain confidentiality of respondents. This includes removing any information that might uniquely identify an individual, reducing the level of detail for some items and collapsing some categories.
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4530.0.55.002
First Issue |
Microdata: Crime Victimisation, Australia, 2010-11
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The following microdata products are available from the Crime Victimisation topic on the 2010-11 Multipurpose Household Survey: - Survey TableBuilder
Apply online for access to this product at http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/home/About+Survey+TableBuilder.
This product provides data about victims for a selected range of personal and household offences including assault, threatened assault, personal robbery, sexual assault, household break-in, attempted break-in, motor vehicle theft, theft from a motor vehicle, malicious property damage and people's perceptions about social disorder issues. Also provides information about the characteristics of victims, the characteristics of their most recent incident and whether the incidents were reported to police. Victims of physical and face-to-face threatened assault were also asked if they believed alcohol or any other substance contributed to their most recent incident of assault. Also includes information about victims of selected personal fraud offences. Also includes relevant standard demographic, labour force and other socio-economic details. A detailed list of data items is available on the Downloads tab.
The microdata enables users to tabulate, manipulate and analyse data. Steps to confidentialise the dataset are taken to ensure the integrity of data and maintain confidentiality of respondents. This includes removing any information that might uniquely identify an individual, reducing the level of detail for some items and collapsing some categories.
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4921.0.55.001
First Issue |
Microdata: Participation in Selected Cultural Activities, Australia, 2010-11
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The following microdata products are available from the Participation in Selected Cultural Activities topic on the 2010-11 Multipurpose Household Survey: - Survey TableBuilder
Apply online for access to this product at http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/home/About+Survey+TableBuilder
This product provides data on people who have participated in selected cultural activities including performing arts, singing or playing a musical instrument, dancing, writing, visual art activities and craft activities. It provides information about characteristics of participants, the number of selected cultural activities in which people participate, characteristics of selected cultural activities and payment that participants receive. Information about reasons for participation and barriers to participation are also included, as well as relevant standard demographic, labour force and other socio-economic details. A detailed list of data items is available on the Downloads tab.
The microdata enables users to tabulate, manipulate and analyse data. Steps to confidentialise the dataset are taken to ensure the integrity of data and maintain confidentiality of respondents. This includes removing any information that might uniquely identify an individual, reducing the level of detail for some items and collapsing some categories.
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| 5302.0.55.004 |
Balance of Payments - Goods and Services, Preliminary Quarterly Estimates, March 2013
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Provides preliminary quarterly estimates of goods and services data including preliminary quarterly estimates of Chain Volume Measures for goods debits. Preliminary seasonally adjusted quarterly balance on goods and services are compared to the sum of seasonally adjusted balances for the three months of the quarter.
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| 5368.0.55.006 |
Characteristics of Australian Exporters, 2011-12
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This publication provides an analysis of the number and characteristics of Australia's exporters. Estimates on exporters of merchandise trade are compiled from data sourced from the Australian Customs Service (Customs) and from the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) Australian Business Register. Estimates on exporters of services are compiled largely from the ABS Survey of International Trade in Services (SITS).
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| 6227.0.30.001 |
Microdata: Education and Work, Australia, May 2012
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The following microdata products are available from the Survey of Education and Work, 2012. - Survey TableBuilder
To apply for access to Survey TableBuilder, register and apply in Registration Centre.
These products provide data on labour force characteristics, participation in study in current and previous year, type of educational institution, level of education of study in current and previous year, highest year of school completed, level of highest non-school qualification, level of highest educational attainment, and selected characteristics of apprentices and trainees. A detailed list of data items is available on the Downloads tab.
The microdata enables users to tabulate, manipulate and analyse data. Steps to confidentialise the dataset are taken to ensure the integrity of data and maintain confidentiality of the respondents. This includes removing any information that might uniquely identify an individual, reducing the level of detail for some items and collapsing some categories.
Approved users can combine information on educational attainment with labour force characteristics to enable analysis of transitions from education to work.
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6238.0.55.001
First Issue |
Microdata: Barriers and Incentives to Labour Force Participation, Retirement and Retirement Intentions, July 2010 to June 2011
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The following microdata products are available from the Barriers & Incentives to Labour Force Participation and Retirement & Retirement Intentions Survey: - Survey TableBuilder
Apply online for access to these products at www.abs.gov.au/about/microdata
These products provide data on labour force characteristics, the potential labour force and the characteristics of that potential labour force. It also contains data on retirement trends, the factors which influence decisions to retire, and the income arrangements that retirees and potential retirees have made to provide for their retirement. A detailed list of data items is available on the Downloads tab.
The microdata enables users to tabulate, manipulate and analyse data. Steps to confidentialise the dataset are taken to ensure the integrity of data and maintain confidentiality of respondents. This includes removing any information that might uniquely identify an individual, reducing the level of detail for some items and collapsing some categories.
Approved users can combine labour force characteristics with Barriers & Incentives data to obtain a better understanding of the factors that influence people to participate (more) in the labour force and the hours they work. The Retirement & Retirement Intentions data can be used to obtain a better understanding of retirement trends and issues facing older Australians.
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8146.0.55.002
First Issue |
Microdata: Household Use of Information Technology, Australia, 2010-11
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The following microdata products are available from the Household Use of Information Technology topic on the 2010-11 Multipurpose Household Survey: - Survey TableBuilder
Apply online for access to this product at http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/home/About+Survey+TableBuilder
This product provides data on household and personal use of information technology in Australia. The data presented includes: access to Internet, location of access, type of Internet connection and purpose of using the Internet, as well as relevant standard demographic, labour force and other socio-economic details. A detailed list of data items is available on the Downloads tab.
The microdata enables users to tabulate, manipulate and analyse data. Steps to confidentialise the dataset are taken to ensure the integrity of data and maintain confidentiality of respondents. This includes removing any information that might uniquely identify an individual, reducing the level of detail for some items and collapsing some categories.
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| 8155.0 |
Australian Industry, 2011-12
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Presents estimates derived using a combination of data from the Economic Activity Survey and business tax data sourced from the Australian Tax Office. For most industry divisions and subdivisions (as specified in the Australian and New Zealand Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), 2006 edition), estimates at a national level are presented of: income; expenses; industry value added; operating profit before tax; capital expenditure; and selected components of these aggregates and derivations. State/territory estimates of income, employment, and wages and salaries, at the division level are also included.
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| Wednesday 29 May 2013 |
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1370.0.00.002
Additional Information |
Measures of Australia's Progress - Aspirations for our Nation: A Conversation with Australians about Progress , 2011-12
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This publication was initially released as a pdf, but is now available as an HTML version.
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| 4530.0.55.002 |
Microdata: Crime Victimisation, Australia, 2011-12
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The following microdata products are available from the Crime Victimisation topic on the 2011-12 Multipurpose Household Survey: - Survey TableBuilder
Apply online for access to this product at http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/home/About+Survey+TableBuilder.
This product provides data about victims for a selected range of personal and household offences including assault, threatened assault, personal robbery, sexual assault, household break-in, attempted break-in, motor vehicle theft, theft from a motor vehicle, malicious property damage and people's perceptions of the criminal justice system. Also provides information about the characteristics of victims, the characteristics of their most recent incident and whether the incidents were reported to police. Victims of physical and face-to-face threatened assault were also asked if they believed alcohol or any other substance contributed to their most recent incident of assault. Also includes relevant standard demographic, labour force and other socio-economic details. A detailed list of data items is available on the Downloads tab.
The microdata enables users to tabulate, manipulate and analyse data. Steps to confidentialise the dataset are taken to ensure the integrity of data and maintain confidentiality of respondents. This includes removing any information that might uniquely identify an individual, reducing the level of detail for some items and collapsing some categories.
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4604.0
Additional Information |
Energy Account, Australia, 2010-11
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This supplementary release presents monetary energy use in Australia, in a hybrid physical-monetary use format, for 2009-10.
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| 5232.0.55.001 |
Assets and Liabilities of Australian Securitisers, March 2013
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Provides quarterly information on the assets and liabilities of securitisers. These financial institutions issue short and/or long term securities (known as asset-backed securities) against specifically matched assets (e.g. mortgages, credit card receivables). Securitisers use the cash flows from the pool of assets to service the interest payments on the issued securities.
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| 8755.0 |
Construction Work Done, Australia, Preliminary, March 2013
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Presents preliminary statistics for the value of construction work done in Australia. Separate data is shown for building work done and for engineering work done for both the private and public sectors. The building work done data is further dissected into new residential, alterations and additions to residential and non-residential work. Original, seasonally adjusted and trend estimates for Australia, as well as some original state and territory data, are provided in current prices and chain volume measures terms. This is the major source of data used to compile the national accounts estimates for private gross fixed capital formation on dwellings, and other buildings and structures.
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| Thursday 30 May 2013 |
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| 1306.5 |
Western Australia at a Glance, 2013
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Contains a wide range of statistics on Western Australia, including physical data, population, vital statistics, employment and wages, price indexes, mineral production, manufacturing, building, foreign trade and tourism.
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4604.0
Replacement Content |
Energy Account, Australia, 2010-11
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Net energy supply and use data cubes for 2008-09 and 2009-10 have been revised and replace the data cubes in the 11/12/2012 release of Energy Account, Australia, 2010-11. The revised data cubes incorporate latest data used in the Hybrid Physical and Monetary Energy Use table (released on 29/05/2013).
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| 5625.0 |
Private New Capital Expenditure and Expected Expenditure, Australia, March 2013
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Preliminary estimates derived from a sample survey of private businesses. Contains estimates of actual and expected new capital expenditure by type of asset (new buildings and other structures/equipment, plant and machinery) and by selected Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification industries. These statistics are expressed in current prices and chain volume measures, in original, seasonally adjusted and trend terms and are available for Australia and by state/territory.
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| 5655.0 |
Managed Funds, Australia, March 2013
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Provides information quarterly, about money pooled for investment purposes in the managed funds industry. The statistics also provide the consolidated assets of managed funds institutions, classified by type of asset. The statistics also present unconsolidated information on the assets and liabilities of life insurance corporations, superannuation (pension) funds, public offer (retail) unit trusts, common funds, friendly societies and cash management trusts and the source of funds being invested with resident investment managers.
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| 6269.0 |
Information Paper: Labour Force Survey Sample Design, May 2013
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This Information Paper is released every five years to coincide with Labour Force Survey (LFS) sample re-selection. The sample is based on information collected in the latest Census of Population and Housing.
The paper provides detailed information on the LFS sample design based on the 2011 Census of Population and Housing. It also outlines changes made for the latest sample design.
These changes include:
1. The use of a new Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) for sample selection and output.
2. The roll-out of the new sample over a four month period from May 2013 to August 2013.
3. The decoupling (separation) of the samples for the Monthly Population Survey (including the Labour Force Survey) and for Special Supplementary Surveys.
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7106.0
Replacement Content |
Australian Farming in Brief, 2012
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ABS has undertaken a review of its industry coding processes used for the creation of agricultural estimates. This has resulted in amendments to the industry table released in this publication for 2010-11.
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7121.0
Replacement Content |
Agricultural Commodities, Australia, 2010-11
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ABS has undertaken a review of its industry coding processes used for the creation of agricultural estimates. This has resulted in amendments to the industry tables released for 2010-11.
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| 8731.0 |
Building Approvals, Australia, April 2013
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Provides the number and value of dwelling units approved by sector (public/private) and by state, number and value of new other residential dwelling units approved by type of building, and the number and value of non-residential building jobs approved by type of building (i.e. by function such as 'retail and wholesale trade', 'offices') and value ranges. State data includes the number of private sector houses approved; number and value of new other residential dwellings by type of building such as flats, units or apartments in a building of one or two storeys; number and value of non-residential building jobs by type of building and sector; and for Greater Capital City Statistical Areas, the total number of dwelling units approved broken down by Houses, Dwellings Excluding Houses and Total Dwelling Units. Seasonally adjusted and trend estimates by state are included for the number of dwelling units and value of building approved. The quarterly value of building approved is shown in chain volume measure terms. Small geographic area data cubes are presented for Statistical Areas Level 2 and Local Government Areas.
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| Friday 31 May 2013 |
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| 4618.0 |
Water Use on Australian Farms, 2011-12
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This publication presents estimates of agricultural water use (including pastures and crops irrigated), irrigation water sources, irrigation methods and irrigation water management. Estimates are presented at Australia, State/Territory, Statistical Division (SD), Natural Resource Management (NRM) region and Murrary-Darling Basin (MDB) levels. Additional datacubes for regional geographies will be released at a later date.
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| 6104.0 |
Labour Statistics in Brief, Australia, 2013
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Presents a range of summary statistics with the emphasis on simple tabular and graphical presentations. Most of the ABS labour collections are covered, including the Labour Force Survey, the range of employer surveys and the industrial disputes collection. Australian data are compared with those of the major Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries.
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| 7121.0 |
Agricultural Commodities, Australia, 2011-12
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Provides final estimates for major agricultural outputs and activity. Contains tables and broad commentary on agriculture industry structure, area and production of crops and livestock numbers. Additional datacubes for regional geographies will be released at a later date.
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| 7503.0 |
Value of Agricultural Commodities Produced, Australia, 2011-12
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This publication contains final estimates of gross and local values of production of major agricultural commodities for all states/territories and Australia. Additional datacubes for regional geographies will be released at a later date.
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| 8301.0 |
Production of Selected Construction Materials, April 2013
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Provides monthly estimates for the production of pre-mixed concrete and quarterly estimates for the production of clay bricks, roof tiles, portland cement, portland clinker, and concrete brick, blocks and pavers.
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| 8415.0 |
Mining Operations, Australia, 2011-12
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Presents national estimates, for the mining industry, of employment at 30 June 2012 and major economic and financial aggregates: income and expenditure; various profit measures; industry value added; capital expenditure, and components of these, as well as performance measures (ratios) derived from them. State and territory estimates of major variables (for the industry excluding services to mining) are included.
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