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Labour Statistics: Concepts, Sources and Methods
Reference period
2021
Released
15/02/2022
A
ABN | Australian Business Number |
ABR | Australian Business Register |
ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
ABSBR | ABS Business Register |
ABSEUM | ABS Economic Units Model |
AC | Auto Coding |
ANZ | Australia and New Zealand Banking Group |
ANZSCO | Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations |
ANZSIC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification |
ARA | Any Responsible Adult |
ASCED | Australian Standard Classification of Education |
ASCL | Australian Standard Classification of Languages |
ASCO | Australian Standard Classification of Occupations |
ASGC | Australian Standard Geographical Classification |
ASGS | Australian Statistical Geography Standard |
ASIC | Australian Standard Industrial Classification |
ASNA | Australian System of National Accounts |
ATO | Australian Taxation Office |
AWCE | Average Weekly Cash Earnings |
AWE | Average Weekly Earnings |
AWOTE | Average Weekly Ordinary Time Earnings |
B
BAS | Business Activity Statement |
BFU | Base Frame Unit |
BLADE | Business Longitudinal Analysis Data Environment |
C
CAC | Computer Assisted Coding |
CAI | Computer Assisted Interviewing |
CAPI | Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing |
CATI | Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing |
CAWI | Computer Assisted Web Interviewing |
CCLI | Classification and Classified List of Industries |
CCLO | Classification and Classified List of Occupations |
CDEP | Community Development Employment Projects |
CDP | Community Development Programme |
CE | Completely Enumerated |
CES | Commonwealth Employment Service |
CI | Confidence Interval |
COE | Characteristics of Employment Survey |
CORMS | Characteristics of Recent Migrants Survey |
CURF | Confidentialised Unit Record File |
E
EAS | Economic Activity Survey |
EEBTUM | Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership Survey |
EEH | Employee Earnings and Hours Survey |
EG | Enterprise Group |
ERP | Estimated Resident Population |
F
FBT | Fringe Benefits Tax |
FOES | Forms of Employment Survey |
FSU | Final Sampling Units |
G
GCCSA | Greater Capital City Statistical Area |
GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
GFS | Government Finance Statistics |
GMI | Gross Mixed Income |
GNAF | Geocoded National Address File |
GSS | General Social Survey |
H
HES | Household Expenditure Survey |
HILDA | Household Income and Labour Dynamics Australia |
I
IC | Indigenous Communities |
ICF | Indigenous Community Framework |
ICLS | International Conference of Labour Statisticians |
ICPSU | Indigenous Community Primary Sampling Units |
ICSE | International Conference of Status in Employment |
ILC | International Labour Conference |
ILO | International Labour Organization |
IMF | International Monetary Fund |
IOPC | Input-Output Product Classification |
ISIC | International Standard Industrial Classification |
IVA | Industry Value Added |
IVI | Internet Vacancy Index (Department of Employment) |
J
JPDA | Joint Petroleum Development Area |
JSE | Job Search Experience Survey |
JVS | Job Vacancies Survey |
K
KILM | Key Indicators of the Labour Market |
L
LE | Legal Entity |
LEED | Linked Employer-Employee Database |
LFS | Labour Force Survey |
LFSS | Labour Force Supplementary Surveys |
LGA | Local Government Area |
LM | Labour Mobility |
LPI | Labour Price Index |
M
MB | Mesh Blocks |
MFP | Multi-Factor Productivity |
MLC | Survey of Major Labour Costs |
MPHS | Multipurpose Household Survey |
MPS | Monthly Population Survey |
N
NDS | National Data Set |
NILF | Not In the Labour Force |
NOM | Net Overseas Migration |
NPI | Not-Profit Institutions |
O
OAD | Overseas Arrivals and Departures |
OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
OH&S | Occupational Health and Safety |
OMIE | Owner Managers of Incorporated Enterprises |
OMUE | Owner Managers of Unincorporated Enterprises |
P
PD | Private Dwelling |
PaETS | Pregnancy and Employment Transitions Survey |
PJSM | Participation, Job Search and Mobility Survey |
PIT | Personal Income Tax |
PNILF | Persons Not In the Labour Force Survey |
PPL | Paid Parental Leave |
PSF | Population Survey Framework |
PUR | Place of Usual Residence |
Q
Q&W | Qualifications and Work |
QBIS | Quarterly Business Indicators Survey |
R
RA | Remoteness Area |
RADL | Remote Access Data Laboratory |
RBA | Reserve Bank of Australia |
RJCP | Remote Jobs and Community Program |
R&RI | Retirement and Retirement Intentions Survey |
RSE | Relative Standard Error |
S
SA | Statistical Areas |
SACC | Standard Australian Classification of Countries |
SD | Special Dwelling |
SDAC | Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers |
SE | Standard Error |
SEARS | Survey of Employment Arrangements, Retirement and Superannuation |
SEAS | Survey of Employment Arrangements and Superannuation |
SEASABS | SEASonal analysis, ABS standards |
SEE | Survey of Employment and Earnings |
SESCA | Standard Economic Sector Classification of Australia |
SEW | Survey of Education and Work |
SGC | Superannuation Guarantee Charge |
SIH | Survey of Income and Housing |
SISCA | Standard Institutional Sector Classification of Australia |
SIH | Survey of Income and Housing |
SNA | System of National Accounts |
SoS | Section of State |
SRA | Self-Representing Area |
SSS | Special Social Surveys |
STEP | Structured Training and Employment Project |
SUPC | Supply Use Product Classification |
T
TAU | Type of Activity Unit |
TOBE | Type of Business Entity |
TOLO | Type of Legal Organisation |
TOOCS | Type of Occurrence Classification System |
U
UCL | Urban Centre and Locality |
UEW | Underemployed Workers Survey |
UR | Usual Resident |
V
VET | Vocational Education Training |
W
WPI | Wage Price Index |
WRI | Work-Related Injuries Survey |
WTA | Working Time Arrangements Survey |