Australian Statistics

• Australian Bureau of Statistics  web site
• Themes An easy way to find statistics by topic
• Yearbooks Annual publications providing basic statistics and different feature articles. In addition to Year Book Australia there are similar publications for each state and territory.
• Time Series spreadsheets - help
• Key National Indicators
• Housing releases
• Census data
• Community Profiler A Latrobe University database containing demographic profile information from the 1996 ABS Census for the State of Victoria.
• CLIB 2001 - only available from computers at Swinburne

Databases

• Academic Search Complete and Business Source Premier - Statistical data included in many journal articles.
• Business & Industry - Articles from the business and trade press on companies, industries, markets and products. Around 65% of the database is available in full text.
• Business ASAP and Expanded Academic ASAP Statistical data included in many journal articles.
• Euromonitor GMID (Global Market Information Database) An integrated database providing key business intelligence on countries, markets and companies. It provides historical statistics and forecasts, analysis of consumers' lifestyles, information sources, brand and company information, plus full-text market analysis.
• Factiva - Full text from Australian business newspapers and journals.
• IBIS Australian Industry Reports - 50 reports available. We cannot open requested reports.
• International Database (US Census Bureau) - statistical tables of demographic and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.
• STATSnetBASE - a collection of more than 150 ebooks about statistics published by CRC Press.

Political Statistics

• Australian Electoral Commission (AEC)

Family, Health and Welfare Statistics

• Australian Criminal Justice Statistics
• Family facts and figures Australian Institute of Family Studies
• The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 
• Australia’s Health 2006
• Australia’s Welfare 2005
• Victoria. Department of Sustainability and Environment

Opinion Polls

• Roy Morgan - Morgan Polls

Financial Statistics

• Australian Stock Exchange 
• AUSTRADE
• Australian Securities and Investments Commission
• Tourism Research Australia
• Reserve Bank of Australia

Television, Radio and Internet ratings

• ACNielsen - Nielsen Radio Ratings
• Nielsen//NetRatings - click on Top Rankings, then select a country
• Roy Morgan - Top TV ratings

Links to other Australian Statistics

• Australian Statistics on the Internet - National Library of Australia
• Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Statistical Science Web

International Statistics

• Eurostat
• OECD Statistics - click on the link to the Statistics Portal
• Penn World Data (PWD)  (1950 - 2004)
• Population index on the Web
• Population Reference Bureau
• SOSIG: Social Sciences Information Gateway
• Statistical Resources on the Web - University of Michigan
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics
• US Census Bureau 
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Statistics

Author: Annette Steere (asteere@swin.edu.au)