Abbreviations and acronyms

ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics

ACER Australian Council for Education Research

ACS Australian Construction Services

ACT Australian Capital Territory

ADAC Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council

AEDP Aboriginal Employment Development Policy

AEP Aboriginal Education Policy

AGPS Australian Government Publishing Service

AIATSIS Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

AIC Australian Institute of Criminology

AIFS Australian Institute for Family Studies

AIHW Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

ANU Australian National University

ARIA Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia

ASGC Australian Standard Geographic Classification

ATSI Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

ATSIC Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

AVCC Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee

CAEPR Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research

CA Community Area

CAI computer assisted interviewing

CD Collection District

CDEP Community Development Employment Projects

CDHSH Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health

CESCR Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights

CHINS Community Housing and Infrastructure Needs Surveys

CIF Community Information Forms

CIS Centre for Independent Studies

CNOS Canadian National Occupancy Standard

COAG Council of Australian Governments

CPI Consumer Price Index

CURF Confidentialised Unit Record File

DCITA Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts

DEWR Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

FaCS Department of Family and Community Services

FATSIL Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages

GSS General Social Survey

HILDA Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia

HREOC Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

ICC Indigenous Coordination Centre

ICT Information and Communication Technology

ICVS International Crime Victims Survey

IL Indigenous language

LFS Labour Force Survey

MCATSIA Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs

MCEETYA Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs

MURF Main Unit Record File

NATSIS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey

NATSISS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey

NCA Non-Community Area

NCSS National Crime and Safety Survey

NCVER National Centre for Vocational and Educational Research

NCSAGIS National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems

NDSHS National Drug Strategy Household Survey

NHS National Health Survey

NILF Not in the labour force

NPYWC Ngaanyatharra, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council

NSCSP National Survey of Community Satisfaction with Policing

NSW New South Wales

NT Northern Territory

OIPC Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination

PAPI pen and paper interview

PNG Papua New Guinea

PSS Personal Safety Survey

QLD Queensland

RCADC Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

RSE relative standard error

RADL Remote Access Data Laboratory

RSSS Research School of Social Science

SA South Australia

SAE Standard Australian English

SAS Statistical Analysis Software

SCRGSP Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision

SIF Special Indigenous Form

SOIL State of Indigenous Languages

SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

SRA Shared Responsibility Agreement

TAS Tasmania

TSI Torres Strait Islander

UN United Nations

UNDP United Nations Development Programme

USA United States of America

UTS University of Technology Sydney

VET vocational education and training

VIC Victoria

WA Western Australia