Table of contents for A guide to Australian economic and social statistics / A.J. Hagger.

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Preface  ............................................................   ix

1.  Australian Economic and Social Statistics:
    The Broad  Picture  ............................................
    Scope of the book ................................................   1
    Australian Bureau of Statistics .....................................  2
      History and organization of the ABS ............................ ..  2
      Statistics produced by the ABS ...................................  4
    Access to Australian economic and social statistics .................... 7
      General guides ...... ..........................................   7
      Access to ABS statistics .........................................  7
      Other sources of economic and social statistics ...................... 15
      Using library catalogues ......................................... 17
    References  ......................................................  18
2.  Population .................................................... 19
    The Australian Census of Population and Housing .................. 19
    Census organization .............................................. 20
    Inputs to and outputs from the 1976 Census .......................... 22
    Sampling in the 1976 Census ....................................... 28
    Vital statistics and statistics of migration ............................. 31
3.  Social Statistics .............................................. 35
    The nature of social statistics ....................................... 35
    Education statistics ............................................... 36
       Primary and secondary education at the national level ................ 36
       Tertiary education at the national level ............................ 37
       Miscellaneous ABS education statistics ............................ 41
     Health statistics .................................................. 41
     Law-and-order statistics ...........................................42
4.  Economic A ccounts  ..........................................43
     Accounting identities and economic accounts ......................... 43
     Balance of payments statistics ...................................... 43
     Statistics of national income and expenditure .........................49
     Input-output statistics .............................................64
5.  Labour and Prices ............................................70
     The population survey ............................................70
     Other ABS labour statistics ........................................78
       Employment and average earnings ................................78




      Average wage rates ............................................  79
      Miscellaneous .................................................  80
    ABS price indexes ...............................................  81
6.  Public Finance, Industry and Overseas Trade ..............        87
    The government and productive sectors .............................  87
    Public finance ...................................................  88
    Industry  ........................................................  89
      Primary subsector .........................................     91
      Secondary subsector .......................................... 93
      Tertiary subsector ...........................................  95
    Overseas trade ................................................   96
7.  Economic and Social Statistics Produced Outside the
    A B S  ........   ............................................ .  99
    The Reserve Bank  ...................................... .........  99
    The Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) .......................105
    The Department of Employment and Youth Affairs ..................106
    Private  Organizations  .................................... ......  108
Index .........     .........................  .................... 113