This paper examines the productivity of firms in manufacturing and business services, particularly the contribution of entry and exit to aggregate productivity growth.

Presents the findings of a review of the Indigenous Status Standard, which provides the basis for the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to collect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander statistics. Overview The ABS Indigenous Status Standard which includes the Standard Indigenous Question (SIQ), is used by the ABS and many government and some non-government organisations...

Australians downloaded nearly one million terabytes of data via broadband in the three months to June this year, according to this release.

Contains information about the level (stock) of financial assets and liabilities of each sector of the economy, as well as information about financial transactions (i.e. flows of funds) between the sectors.

This paper outlines the challenges in working with satellite imagery data for crop area estimation, and presents some new approaches. Overview A key strategic goal for the ABS is to exploit emerging sources of data to either partially replace, supplement or validate existing data collections in order to reduce costs, improve quality and produce more...