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