Revisions to the 2013 ESA List
While the original 2013 ESA list identified 178 datasets, this was revised to 239 datasets (which includes each state and territory dataset where there is no national collection for those listed with state and territory custodians) during the quality assessment process. The quality assessment process uncovered information about some individual datasets on the 2013 list which consisted of multiple datasets and also a small number of datasets which were removed as they were duplicates or did not exist.
Of the 239 datasets, 199 datasets were able to be included in this process. For those included in the quality assessment process, more were administrative datasets (44%) than survey datasets (37%), census datasets (4%) or other types of datasets (16%) such as accounts datasets. Of the 239 datasets included in the list, 89 (37%) were held by the ABS, whilst 86 (36%) were held by other Commonwealth government custodians. There were 64 state and territory datasets (27%) (representing every state and territory for 8 distinct datasets). While no datasets were the custody of local government agencies, some resulted from data collected by local governments.
The change of federal government in September 2013 brought about the administrative rearrangement of Australian Public Service agencies and departments which resulted in amendments to a number of data custodian names, and in some cases, changes to custodianship of datasets on the 2013 ESA list. These are reflected in the revised ESA list.
Revisions to the list are summarised below (a revised version of the 2013 ESA list is included in Appendix 2):
- Different data custodian or updated data custodian name, where this was previously incorrectly assigned.
- Minor changes to the names of datasets, where this was previously incorrect or if the name had subsequently changed.
- Datasets were removed where there was no data collection.
- Datasets were removed where they were incorrectly listed as contributing to a statistic, based on subsequent information received from ABS subject matter areas and data custodians. Two datasets were removed and instead were recategorised as infrastructure (which will be included on the list of Essential Statistical Infrastructure as part of Phase 3 of ESA), as they did not produce statistics independently. The National Death Index (AIHW) was not accessible as a dataset in its own right and was only used for data linkage. Similarly, the Travel and Immigration Processing System (DIBP) was only available to organisations for official use and as an input for other datasets already on the list.
- Some critical disaggregations and critical frequencies were revised based on subsequent information received from ABS subject matter areas and data custodians.
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