3228.0.55.001 - Population Estimates: Concepts, Sources and Methods, 2009  
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CONTENTS

    Overview
      Introduction
      Population musters and colonial censuses
      Treatment of Indigenous Australians in official population estimates
      Estimated resident population
      Use of population estimates
      Other population concepts
    Estimating national and state population
      Introduction
      Census estimates
      Post-censal population estimates
      Other estimates
      Intercensal revision of population estimates
    Estimating population for statistical local areas
      Introduction
      Census estimates
      Post-censal estimates
      Intercensal revision of SLA population estimates
    Estimating population for customised geography
      Introduction
      Confidentiality
      ERP totals
      ERP by age and sex
    Estimating births and deaths
      Introduction
      Accuracy
      Preliminary estimates of births and deaths
      Revised estimates of births and deaths
      Final estimates
    Estimating net overseas migration
      Introduction
      Final NOM estimates
      Preliminary NOM estimates
      Enhancements
    Estimating interstate migration
      Introduction
      Rebasing and re-derivation of interstate migration
      Interstate migration method
      Further information
    Estimating the Indigenous population
      Introduction
      Method of estimation
      Calculating preliminary ERP
      Calculating final ERP
      Previous Census-based estimates
    Data sources
      Introduction
      Base population
      Census undercount
      Births and Deaths
      Marriages and Divorces
      Net Overseas Migration and Overseas Arrivals and Departures
      Interstate migration