Officers of the ABS prepared the following professional papers which were presented or published between 1 July 2003 and 30 June 2004.
Zia Abbasi and Paul Mahoney
Valuation of direct investment equity. Presented to the IMF/OECD Direct Investment Technical Experts Group, Paris, 15-17 June 2004.
Michael Davies
Interest on debt securities. Presented to the IMF Balance of Payments Technical Experts Group, Washington, D.C., 22-24 June 2004.
Michael Davies
A Rose by any other name: is netting consolidation? Posted to the OECD Task Force on the Measurement of Non-life Insurance Forum, July 2003.
Michael Davies and Derick Cullen
Loans valuation in the SNA: back to basics. Posted to the Treatment of Non-performing Loans Forum, International Monetary Fund, August 2003.
Michael Davies and Julie McKenzie
Reinvested earnings. Presented to the IMF/OECD Direct Investment Technical Experts Group, Paris, 15-17 June 2004.
Michael Davies, Celia Quiatchon and Boke Nkoy
Special purpose entities: issues paper. Presented to the IMF Balance of Payments Technical Experts Group Washington, D.C., 22-24 June 2004.
Michael Davies and Camille Smith
Residence of households. Presented to the IMF Balance of Payments Technical Experts Group, Washington, D.C., 22-24 June 2004.
Michael Davies and Camille Smith
Multi-territory enterprises. Presented to the IMF Balance of Payments Technical Experts Group, Washington, D.C., 22-24 June 2004.
Teresa Dickinson and Siu-Ming Tam
Measuring client servicing in the Australian Bureau of Statistics - a balanced scoreboard approach. Presented to the 54th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Berlin, 13-20 August 2003.
Tanuja Doss
Alternative measures of income and saving. Presented to the 32nd Annual Conference of Economists, Canberra, 29 September to 1 October 2003.
Denis Farrell, Allan Nicholls and Kol Toivonen
What are the priority needs for agriculture statistics and how well do our classification systems support these needs? Presented to the Conference of European Statisticians Joint UNECE/EUROSTAT/FAO/OECD Meeting on Food and Agriculture Statistics in Europe, Geneva, 2-4 July 2003.
Stephen Frost
Experimental price indexes for financial services. Presented to the ABS/SNZ Bilateral Meeting on Prices, Wellington, New Zealand, 9-11 February 2004.
Stephen Frost and Paul McCarthy
Experimental price indexes for financial services. Presented to the UNECE Meeting on Consumer Price Indices, Geneva, 4-5 December 2003.
Geoff Heffernan
SME statistics in Australia: use of administrative data to support SME statistical developments. Presented to the OECD Workshop on Improving Statistics on SMEs and Entrepreneurship, Paris, 17-19 September 2003.
Judy Henson
ABS Input Data Warehouse (IDW) implementation - business aspects: how the ABS IDW is being implemented. Presented to the Statistical Input Data Warehouse Workshop, Canberra-Murramarang Resort, 9-14 November 2003.
Keith James, Eng Wong and Allan Nicholls
Agribusiness in Australia - what the numbers say. Presented to the Australian Agribusiness Congress, Sydney, 28 August 2003.
Harry Kroon and Rhonda de Vos
Measures of labour underutilisation. Presented to the 5th Path to Full Employment Conference/10th National Conference on Unemployment, Newcastle, 10-12 December 2003.
Alan Mackay
Mature age workers: sustaining our future labour force. Presented to An Ageless Workforce Symposium, Sydney 27 August 2003.
Marion McEwin and Dennis Trewin
Towards more service oriented NSOs. Presented to the ESCAP Subcommittee on Statistics, First Session, Bangkok, 18-20 February 2004.
Allan Nicholls
Food and agricultural statistics within National Statistics Systems: Australia - a case study. Presented to the FAO Workshop on Strengthening Food and Agricultural Statistics in Support of Food Security and Poverty Reduction in the Pacific, Nandi, Fiji, 10-13 November 2003.
Terry Rawnsley and Ken Tallis
Evolution of household wealth through the lifecycle: a synthetic wealth/income microdataset. Presented to the International Microsimulation Conference on Population, Ageing and Health: Modelling Our Future, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 7-12 December 2003.
Dennis Robson
ABS Business Register Quality Management Framework. Presented to the 17th International Roundtable on Business Survey Frames, Rome, Italy, 26-31 October 2003.
Dennis Robson
Legislative framework and confidentiality of the ABS Business Register. Presented to the 17th International Roundtable on Business Survey Frames, Rome, Italy, 26-31 October 2003.
Luke Samy and Tala Talgaswatta
An analysis of factors determining capital commitments and draw downs in the formal Australian venture capital market. Presented to the 16th Australasian Banking and Finance Conference, Sydney, 17-19 December 2003.
Dennis Trewin
Impact of technologies on statistical offices. Presented to the GUS/ISI Satellite Conference, Szczecin, Poland, 8 August 2003.
Dennis Trewin
ISI Presidential address. Presented to the 54th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Berlin, Germany, 13 August 2003.
Dennis Trewin
The role of good planning in determining statistical priorities. Presented to the Tenth Meeting of the Heads of National Statistical Offices of East Asian Countries, Kyoto, Japan, 17-18 November 2003.
Dennis Trewin
Some of the current issues facing the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Presented to the Tenth Meeting of the Heads of National Statistical Offices of East Asian Countries, Kyoto, Japan, 17-18 November 2003.
Dennis Trewin
Improving knowledge of official statistics. Presented to the Statistical Days 2003 Conference, Radenci, Slovenia, 24-26 November 2003.
Dennis Trewin
Improving statistical literacy. Presented to the Statistical Days 2003 Conference, Radenci, Slovenia, 24-26 November 2003.
Dennis Trewin
Measures of Australia's progress. Presented to the Globalisation, Families and Work Conference, Brisbane, 1-2 April 2004.
Bernard Williams
Use of administrative data in Australian retail trade statistics. Presented to the Joint Statistical Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Section on Government Statistics, Session 120, San Francisco, 3-7 August 2003.