PROFESSIONAL PAPERS BY ABS OFFICERS
Officers of the ABS prepared the following professional papers which were presented or published between 1 July 2013 and 30 June 2014.
Ajani, Judith and Green, Lisa. ‘Forest definitions and linkages to wood product information’, presented at the 19th Meeting of London Group on Environmental Accounting, London, United Kingdom, 12–14 November 2013
Argento, Lisa and Burnell, Derek. ‘Australian valuation of subsoil natural resources and their inclusion in productivity statistics’, presented by Michael Smedes at the OECD Working Party on National Accounts, Paris, France, 30 September–4 October 2013
Batschi, Brigitte and Cullen, Derick. ‘Debt: concepts, measurement and presentation’, presented by Michael Smedes at the OECD Working Party on National Accounts, Paris, France, 30 September–4 October 2013
Bond, Suzi (ABS), McDonald, Jane (UQ) and Vardon, Michael (ABS). ‘Experimental biodiversity accounting in Australia’, presented at the 19th meeting of London Group on Environmental Accounting, London, United Kingdom, 12–14 November 2013
Brady, Martin and Van Halderen, Gemma. ‘A statistical spatial framework to inform regional statistics’, presented at the 59th ISI World Statistics Congress (WSC) of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) Hong Kong, China, 25–30 August 2013
Chipperfield, James O, Margo Barr, and David Steel. ‘Split questionnaire designs: are they an efficient design choice?’, presented at the 59th ISI World Statistics Congress (WSC) of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) Hong Kong, China, 25–30 August 2013
Comisari, Peter, Ajani, Judith and Vardon, Michael. ‘Carbon stock accounting: a report on progress in Australia and estimates of geocarbon’, presented at the 19th Meeting of London Group on Environmental Accounting, London, United Kingdom,
12–14 November 2013
Comisari, Peter and Vardon, Michael. ‘Valuation and treatment of water resource stocks’, presented at the 19th meeting of London Group on Environmental Accounting, London, United Kingdom, 12–14 November 2013
Harper, Peter. ‘How do we define the value and benefits of official statistics in an increasingly competitive data industry?’, presented by Trevor Sutton at the Sixty-second plenary session of the Conference of European Statisticians, Paris, France, 9–11 April 2014
Hawker, Louise, Kiely, Sarah and Eaves, Nigel. ‘Land management statistics—informing the relationship between Australian agriculture and the rural environment’, presented at the Twenty-Fifth Session of the Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics in Vientiane, Lao PDR, 18–21 February 2014
Henderson, Andrew and Lehmann, Nicole. ‘Building a statistical program to support evidence-based policy and relationships within government’, presented at the Sixth International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS-VI): Improving Statistics for Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture, and Rural Development. Linking statistics with decision making, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23–25 October, 2013
Nairn, Alister D. ‘Applications of GIS in the 2011 Australian Census of Population and Housing and plans for 2016’, presented at the 59th ISI World Statistics Congress (WSC) of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) Hong Kong, China 25–30 August 2013
O’Keefe, Christine M and Chipperfield, James O. ‘A summary of attack methods and confidentiality protection measures for fully automated remote analysis systems’, International Statistical Review, vol. 81, issue 3, 2013
Reuter Town, Alex. ‘Valuing dwellings and land as an input into household wealth and household balance sheets, Australia’, presented by Michael Smedes at the OECD Working Party on National Accounts, Paris, France, 30 September–4 October 2013
Rotaru, Cristian. ‘Discrete choice panel data modelling using the ABS Business Longitudinal Database’, presented at the Economics Measurement Group (EMG) Workshop, Sydney NSW 28–29 November, 2013. This paper was also published as: Rotaru, Cristian Ionel (2014), Discrete Choice Panel Data Modelling using the ABS Business Longitudinal Database, Methodology Advisory Committee Papers, ABS cat. no. 1352.0.55.139, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra
Senaratne, Inoka, Tynan, Barry and Cockburn, Duncan. ‘Development of an experimental waste account for Australia’, presented at the 19th Meeting of London Group on Environmental Accounting, London, United Kingdom, 12–14 November 2013
Smedes, Michael. ‘Quarterly current price gross value added (GVA) by industry’, presented at the OECD Working Party on National Accounts, Paris, France, 30 September–4 October 2013
Tessama, Getachew and Vitas, Branko. ‘Coming to grips with intangibles’, presented at the 59th World Statistics Congress (WSC) of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) Hong Kong, China, 25–30 August, 2013
Tynan, Barry. ‘Own-account production of water by households: A method for rainwater tanks’, presented at the 19th meeting of London Group on Environmental Accounting, London, United Kingdom, 12–14 November 2013
Vardon, Michael. ‘Recognising and managing uncertainty in national and environmental accounting’, presented at the Valuation for Accounting seminar, London, United Kingdom, 11 November 2013
Vardon, Michael (ABS), Sjoerd, Schneau (Statistics Netherlands), Nancy, Steinbach (Statistics Sweden) and Viveka, Palm (Statistics Sweden). ‘The potential of a staff exchange mechanism to support capacity development for environmental accounting’, presented at the 19th Meeting of London Group on Environmental Accounting, London, United Kingdom, 12–14 November 2013