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Abbreviations, symbols and other usages

ABBREVIATIONS

The following abbreviations have been used in this publication.

AUSTRALIA, STATES AND TERRITORIES OF AUSTRALIA



Aust.	Australia
NSW	New South Wales
Vic.	Victoria
Qld	Queensland
SA	South Australia
WA	Western Australia
Tas.	Tasmania
NT	Northern Territory
ACT	Australian Capital Territory



OTHER ABBREVIATIONS



AAP	Asthma Action Plan
ABS	Australian Bureau of Statistics
ABSCQ	Australian Bureau of Statistics Classification of Qualifications
AGPS	Australian Government Publishing Service
AIHW	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
ANZSIC	Australian and New Zealand Standard Industry Classification
ASCED	Australian Standard Classification of Education
ASCO	Australian Standard Classification of Occupations
ASGC	Australian Standard Geographical Classification
ASOC	Australian Standard Offence Classification
AST	Australian Social Trends
BMI	Body mass index
CDEP	Community Development Employment Projects scheme
CPI	Consumer Price Index
CSDA	Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement
DALY	Disability Adjusted Life Year
EFP	Environmentally-friendly product
ERP	Estimated resident population
FTE	Full-time equivalent
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GP	General Practitioner
GSS	General Social Survey
HECS	Higher Education Contribution Scheme
HES	Household Expenditure Survey
HIV	Human Immunodeficiency Virus
ICD-10	International Classification of Diseases - 10th revision
ICD-9	International Classification of Diseases - 9th revision
LFS	Labour Force Survey
MAP	Measures of Australia’s Progress
NHPA	National Health Priority Area
NHS	National Health Survey
OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PELS	Postgraduate Education Loan Scheme
PSA	Prostate specific antigen test
SAAP	Supported Accommodation Assistance Program
SACC	Standard Australian Classification of Countries
SAR	Special Administrative Region of China
SARS	Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SD	Statistical Division
SDAC	Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers
SEIFA	Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas
SIH	Survey of Income and Housing
SLA	Statistical Local Area
SSD	Statistical Subdivision
STD	Sexually transmitted disease
TAFE	Technical and Further Education
TFR	Total fertility rate
UK	United Kingdom
USA	United States of America
USSR	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
VET	Vocational Education and Training
WHO	World Health Organisation



SYMBOLS

The following symbols and usages mean:



billion	1,000 million
n.a.	not available
nec	not elsewhere classified
nfd	not further defined
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
*	subject to high sampling variability
**	data suppressed due to unacceptably high sampling variability
. .	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.