How do we like to spend our leisure time? This ABS reports indicates that 65% of people aged 15 years and over went to the movies at least once in 2005-06. Over one in five movie-goers (23%) went more than ten times. After the movies the next most popular activity with Australians was going to...

How many people? How much rain? How many sheep? - find it in the ABS's Yearbook - a comprehensive general reference work which includes basic statistics and different feature articles each year. A comprehensive general reference work which includes basic statistics and different feature articles each year. Data are presented in tables and related explanatory...

This ABS report gives an overview of sport and leisure participation in Australia. The most popular physical recreation activity for both males and females was walking for exercise. However, the participation rate was much higher for females (32.9%) than it was for males (17.5%). The most popular organised sport for boys was soccer (outdoor) (22.2%...

The Emergency Management Information Development Plan (EMIDP) is a national strategic framework of emergency management research initiatives in Australia. The EMIDP identifies key issues and data; presents agreed priorities and plans for improving relevance, coverage, comparability and quality of information; and identifies responsibilities for progressing individual strands of work, and for monitoring overall progress.The Emergency...

This article presents an analysis of the characteristics and international trading activities of Australian exporters in 2005-06. There were 42,194 Australian exporters in 2005-06. Of these, 40,849 were exporters of merchandise goods, and 2,513 were exporters of services.