ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
ABS@ | information service to provide users with ready access to ABS publications and to a range of multi-dimensional datasets in electronic format |
ABSDL | ABS Site Data Laboratory |
ACIR | Australian Childhood Immunisation Register |
ACT | Australian Capital Territory |
AIC | Australian Institute of Criminology |
ANAO | Australian National Audit Office |
ANZSIC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification |
APRA | Australian Prudential Regulation Authority |
APS | Australian Public Service |
ASAC | Australian Statistics Advisory Council |
ASGC | Australian Standard Geographical Classification |
ATO | Australian Taxation Office |
ATSIC | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission |
AusStats | an online subscription service to the ABS standard product range |
Aust. | Australia |
AWA | Australian Workplace Agreement |
BSC | Business Statistics Centre |
BSIP | Business Statistics Innovation Program |
CAI | computer assisted interviewing |
C&S Act | Commonwealth and Statistics Act 1905 |
cat. no. | ABS catalogue number |
CDATA | CD-ROM product containing census data |
CDS | Commonwealth Disability Strategy |
CLIB | a free census product available only to LEP-eligible libraries |
CO | Central Office |
CPI | consumer price index |
CPSU | Community and Public Sector Union |
CURF | confidentialised unit record file |
DDA | Disability Discrimination Act 1992 |
DEST | Department of Education, Science and Training |
DEWR | Department of Employment and Workplace Relations |
DOTARS | Department of Transport and Regional Services |
DPC | Data Processing Centre |
DSD | Defence Signals Directorate |
EEO | Equal Employment Opportunity |
e-LEP | electronic Library Extension Program |
ERP | estimated resident population |
ESCAP | Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific |
ESDC | Economic Statistics Data Centre |
FOI | Freedom of Information |
GDP | gross domestic product |
GFS | Government Finance Statistics |
GSS | General Social Survey |
GST | Goods and Services Tax |
HIES | Household Income and Expenditure Survey |
HWS | Harassment and Workplace Support |
ICP | International Comparison Program |
ICT | information and communication technology |
IDP | Information Development Plan |
IMF | International Monetary Fund |
IRDB | Integrated Regional Data Base |
ISI | International Statistical Institute |
ISS | Indigenous Social Survey |
IT | information technoloty |
ITPI | international trade price indexes |
K10 | Kessler Psychological Distress Scale - 10 |
LEP | Library Extension Program |
L&D | learning and development |
MAC | Methodology Advisory Committee |
MDRP | Microdata Review Panel |
MEI | main economic indicator |
MPS | Monthly Population Survey |
NATOHSC | National Occupational Health and Safety Committee |
NATSIS | National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey |
NHS | National Health Survey |
NSC | National Statistics Centre |
NSS | National Statistical Service |
NSW | New South Wales |
NT | Northern Territory |
OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
OHS | occupational health and safety |
PES | post-enumeration survey |
PMAU | People Management Advisory Unit |
PPI | producer price indexes |
PPP | purchasing power parity |
Qld | Queensland |
RADL | Remote Access Data Laboratory |
RBA | Reserve Bank of Australia |
RRSNC | Rural and Regional Statistics National Centre |
SA | South Australia |
SCH | Statistical Clearing House |
SES | Senior Executive Service |
SESCA | Standard Economic Sector Classifications of Australia |
SLA | Statistical Local Area |
SPC | Secretariat of the Pacific Community |
SSF | State Statistical Forum |
STSS | State and Territory Statistical Services |
Tas. | Tasmania |
UN | United Nations |
UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation |
VPN | virtual private networking |
Vic. | Victoria |
WA | Western Australia |
W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
WCI | wage cost index |
WD | workplace diversity |