2008.0 - Census of Population and Housing: Nature and Content, Australia, 2016

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Preface Introduction Legal authority, confidentiality and privacy Collection operations Processing Results and output Topics to be included in the 2016 Census + Personal topics Name Sex Age Residential status in non-private dwelling Registered marital status Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander origin Usual residence at Census time Internal migration Australian citizenship Country of birth Year of arrival in Australia Country of birth of parents Main language other than English spoken at home Proficiency in spoken English Ancestry Religious affiliation Need for assistance Attendance at an educational institution Highest year of schooling completed Non-school qualifications Number of children ever born Income (individual) Labour force status Status in employment Occupation Public or private employer indicator Workplace address (and Journey to work) Industry of employment Hours worked Method of travel to work Unpaid work + Household and dwelling topics Topic release schedule Census Time Capsule ABS releases information about 2016 Census topics (Media Release) About this Release History of Changes	ATTENDANCE AT AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION This topic provides information about whether the person is attending an educational institution as a full-time or part-time student, and on the type of institution attended. Information from this topic is used for education planning at federal, state and community levels and in decisions on the allocation of funds for schools and for labour market planning. BACKGROUND A question covering school attendance has been included in most Australian Censuses and since 1976 the question has been broadened to cover attendance at school or other institutions. Questions enabling the identification of full-time and part-time students have been included since 1981. Since 1986 questions on the type of educational institution being attended by students have been included which enable comprehensive statistics to be produced on the characteristics of people attending the various types of educational institutions. Due to structural changes in the higher education system, some changes in terminology were made in 1996 to the question about the type of educational institution. In 1996, Catholic and other non-government primary and secondary schools were also separately identified. These changes have been retained for subsequent Censuses. A small change was made to a dot point instruction for the 2016 Census to clarify that external and correspondence students should indicate the institution in which they are currently enrolled, regardless of attendance. QUESTIONS The following questions are from the paper 2016 Census Household Form. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.