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INQUIRIES ABOUT THESE STATISTICS

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Director
Social Analysis and Reporting Section
Australian Bureau of Statistics
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Belconnen ACT 2616
Telephone Canberra (02) 6252 7187

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ABBREVIATIONS

The following abbreviations have been used in this publication.

AUSTRALIA, STATES AND TERRITORIES OF AUSTRALIA

The following symbols and usages mean:

billion 1,000 million
n.a. not available
n.e.c. not elsewhere classified
n.f.d. not further defined
n.p. not published
n.y.a. not yet available
no. number
p preliminary — figures or series subject to revision
r figures or series revised since previous edition
'000 thousand
'000m thousand million
$ dollar
$m million dollars
$b billion dollars
$US American dollar
% per cent
* estimate has a relative standard error of 25% to 50% and should be used with caution
** estimate has a relative standard error of greater than 50% and is considered too unreliable for general use
. . not applicable
— nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

OTHER USAGES

Figures have been rounded. Therefore discrepancies may occur between the sums of the component items and totals.

Unless otherwise stated, where source data used included a non-response category (i.e. not stated), data in this category have been excluded prior to the calculation of percentages. Total numbers shown with such percentages include the number of non-responses.

Each chapter contains a national summary table which provides, where possible, ten years of data for a particular indicator. These time series are designed to give a long-term overview and readers should be cautious when interpreting small year to year variations, as some may not be statistically significant.

Unless otherwise stated, all data from the Census of Population and Housing are based on the location of people on census night, i.e. their place of enumeration.

Unless otherwise stated, all data from the Census of Population and Housing exclude overseas visitors.