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2901.0 - Census Dictionary, 2006 (Reissue)
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Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 17/11/2006
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) regions
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin
Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander
Absentees
ACAP
Accommodation for the retired or aged (not self-contained)
Accommodation for the retired or aged, self-care
Address
Adopted child
Age (AGEP)
Ancestry (ANC1P/ANC2P)
Antarctica
ANZSCO
ANZSIC
Apartment
Area (measurement)
Arrival in Australia, year of
ASCCEG
ASCED
ASCO
ASCRG
ASGC
ASIC
Attribution (component of digital geographic information)
Australia
Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO)
Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC)
Australian born
Australian Census Analytic Program (ACAP)
Australian Citizenship (CITP)
Australian residents temporarily overseas
Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups (ASCCEG)
Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED)
Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO)
Australian Standard Classification of Religious Groups (ASCRG)
Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC)
Australian Standard Industrial Classification (ASIC)
Australian Statistics Advisory Council (ASAC)
Average
Babies
Base map
Bedsitter/flat
Birthplace
Blended family
Boarding school student
Boundaries
Bounded locality
Buying/owning a dwelling
Cabins
Capital City Statistical Division (Capital City SD)
Caravans, houseboats, etc.
CD
CD-Derived Postal Areas (POA)
CD of Usual Residence Census Night (CDUCP)
CDEP
CDRD
CED
Census
Census and Statistics Act
Census collection district
Census Consultancy Service
Census counts
Census date
Census form
Census Geographic Areas
Census Map Production System (CMPS)
Census products
Census regulations
Centroid
Child
Child Type (CTPP)
Child under 15
Christmas Island
Citizenship
Classifications
Classifications and recodes
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Collection District maps
Collection District Record Database (CDRD) 2006
Collection District (CD)
Commonwealth Electoral Division (CED)
Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP)
Community Government Council
Comparability (geographic, over time)
Confidentiality
Consultancy services
Contributing family worker
Copyright
Core Activity Need for Assistance (ASSNP)
Count of ...
Country of birth
Couple family
Craft in marinas
Customised geographic reports
Customised mapping service
Data processing
Data Processing Centre
Data Quality
Data release
Date of the Census
De facto
De facto population counts
De jure population counts
Dependent child
Dependent child type
Dependent Children, Count of (CDCAF)
Dependent foster child
Dependent offspring
Dependent student
Derivations and imputations
Desktop mapping packages
Destination Zone
Digital base map data
Digital boundaries
Digital spatial data
Digital topography
Diplomatic representatives and dwellings
Directory of Census Statistics
Disability
Division
Divorced
Dwelling
Dwelling Location (DLOD)
Dwelling Structure (STRD)
Dwelling Type (DWTD)
eCensus
Education - General Information
Educational qualification
Elderly people
Electoral District
Electoral division
Employed
Employee
Employer
Employment
Employment sector
Employment status
Employment Type (EMTP)
English, proficiency in
Enumeration
Enumeration district
Error
Estimated Resident Population (ERP)
Ethnic enumeration
Ethnicity
External territories
Family - General Information
Family Blending (FBLF)
Family Composition (FMCF)
Family/Household Reference Person Indicator (RPIP)
Family Income as Stated (FINASF)
Family Income Derivation Indicator (FIDF)
Family Income (FINF)
Family members temporarily absent
Family Number (FNOF)
Family reference person
Family Type (FMTF)
Features (components of digital base map data)
Field of Study
First release data
Flats
Foster child
Full/Part-Time Student Status (STUP)
Gender
Geographic areas
Geographic data
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Geographical Australia
GIS
Government
Government/Non-government Employer Indicator (GNGP)
Group household
Highest Year of School Completed (HSCP)
Home owner/purchaser
Homeless people
Hours Worked (HRSP)
Houseboat
Household
Household Composition (HHCD)
Household form
Household Income - Equivalised (HIED)
Household Income as Stated (HINASD)
Household Income Derivation Indicator (HIDD)
Household Income (HIND)
Household members temporarily absent
Household mobility
Household reference person
Household Type (HHTD)
Households with Indigenous person(s)
House/flat attached to a shop, office
Housing
Housing Loan Repayments (monthly) (HLRD)
Husband
ICT
Immigration
Improvised home
Imputation variables
Inadequately described
Income
Indigenous Area (IARE)
Indigenous family
Indigenous household
Indigenous languages
Indigenous Location (ILOC)
Indigenous personal form
Indigenous Region (IREG)
Indigenous special enumeration strategy
Indigenous Status (INGP)
Individual Income (weekly) (INCP)
Industry of Employment (IND06P)
Industry sector
Information Consultancy
Institution
Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR)
Internal migration
Internet
Interstate migration
Interviewer household form
Introduced random error
Jervis Bay Territory
Job
Journey to Work (JTW)
Journey to Work: Destination Zone (JTWDZNP)
Journey to Work: Study Area (JTWSAP)
Labour Force
Labour Force Status (LFS06P)
Landlord Type (LLDD)
Language Spoken at Home (LANP)
Legal marital status
Level of Highest Educational Attainment (HEAP)
LGA
Local Government Area (LGA)
Locality
Location of dwelling
Location of Spouse (SPLF)
Lone parent
Lone person household
Lord Howe Island
Main language other than English spoken at home
Major Statistical Region (MSR)
Major urban
Manufactured home estates
Maps
Marina
Marital status
Married de facto
Married registered
Mean
Median
Median income
Mesh Block
Method of Travel to Work (MTWP)
Migrant
Migration
Migratory Collection District
Mnemonics
Mobility
Mode
Mortgage
Motorbikes
Multiple family households
Municipality
Name
Name attribution (component of digital geographic information)
Name of employer
Nationality
NEC (not elsewhere classified)
Need for assistance
Negative income
NEI (not elsewhere included)
Never married
NFD (not further defined)
Nominal child
Non-ASGC areas
Non-dependent child
Non-family member
Non-government
Non-labour force occupations
Non-private dwelling
Non-School Qualification: Field of Study (QALFP)
Non-School Qualification: Level of Education (QALLP)
Norfolk Island
Not applicable
Not in the labour force
Not stated
Number of Bedrooms in Private Dwelling (BEDD)
Number of Children Ever Born (TISP)
Number of Employees (EMPP)
Number of Motor Vehicles (VEHD)
Occupation
Occupied private dwelling
Off-shore Collection District
Offspring
One-parent family
Optional questions
Origin
Other
Other family
Other related individual
Other territories
Other urban
Overseas-born
Overseas visitor
Owner managers
Owner managers of incorporated enterprises
Owner managers of unincorporated enterprises
Parent
Parent-child relationship
Partner
Pensions/benefits
Period of residence
Person variables
Personal form
Place of birth
Place of enumeration
Place of Usual Residence Five Years Ago (PUR5P)
Place of Usual Residence One Year Ago (PUR1P)
Place of Usual Residence (PURP)
Place of Work (POWP)
POA
Post Enumeration Survey (PES)
Postal Area (POA)
Postcode
Preliminary Data
Primary family
Private dwelling
Product directory
Proficiency in Spoken English (ENGP)
PSMA Australia Ltd. (PSMA)
Qualifications
Quality Alignment and Design System (QuADS)
Random perturbation of table cells
Recode
Reference maps
Reference person
Region
Registered Marital Status (MSTP)
Related individuals
Relations
Relationship
Relationship Between Families (FRLF)
Relationship in Household (RLHP)
Relatives
Religious Affiliation (RELP)
Remoteness Area (RA)
Rent (weekly) (RNTD)
Rented
Residence
Residential Status in a Non-Private Dwelling (RLNP)
Residual categories and supplementary codes
Retention of name-identified information
Retirement village (self-contained)
Rooms in occupied private dwelling
Row house
Rural Balance
S Dist
SACC
Same-sex couple
School
School leavers
Scope and coverage
SD
Second family
Second release data
Section of State (SOS)
Self-employed person
Self-enumeration
Semi-detached house
Separate house
Sex (SEXP)
Shift workers
Shipping Collection District
Ships in or between Australian ports
Single parent
SLA
SLA of Usual Residence Census Night (SLAUCP)
SLA of Usual Residence Five Years Ago (SLAU5P)
SLA of Usual Residence One Year Ago (SLAU1P)
Sleepers-out
Small area data
Social Marital Status (MDCP)
Social security benefits
Sole parent
SOS
South Sea Islander
Spatial data
Special Data Services
Special Indigenous personal form
Spouse
SR
SSC
SSD
Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC)
State and territory
State Electoral Division (SED)
State of Usual Residence Census Night (STEUCP)
State of Usual Residence Five Years Ago (STEU5P)
State of Usual Residence One Year Ago (STEU1P)
State Suburb (SSC)
Statistical District (S Dist)
Statistical Division (SD)
Statistical geography
Statistical Local Area (SLA)
Statistical Longitudinal Census Dataset
Statistical Region (SR)
Statistical Subdivision (SSD)
Status in employment
Step child
Student
Subdivision
Suburb
Temporarily absent
Tent
Tenure Type (TEND)
Terrace house
Territory
Thematic maps
Topographic features
Torres Strait Islander
Tourists
Townhouse
Transport
Travel to work
Type of Educational Institution Attending (TYPP)
Type of Internet Connection (NEDD)
Type of Non-Private Dwelling (NPDD)
Undercounting and/or underenumeration
Unemployed
Unit Record File
Unoccupied private dwelling
Unpaid Assistance to a Person with a Disability (UNCAREP)
Unpaid Child Care (CHCAREP)
Unpaid Domestic Work: Number of Hours (DOMP)
Unpaid helpers
Unpaid work
Unrelated child (under 15)
Unrelated individual living in a family household
Urban Centre/Locality
Usual Address
Usual residence
Variables
Vector-based digital geography
Vehicles
Visitors to a household
Visitors to Australia
Voluntary Work for an Organisation or Group (VOLWP)
Wage or salary earner
Water Collection Districts
Weekly rent
Wife
Work Destination Zone
Working population
Year of Arrival in Australia (YARP)
Year of birth
Year of qualification
Zone
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