Overseas arrivals and departures, Australia, 1980 - 1994: unit record data: File b81

Statistics of overseas arrivals in, and departures from, Australia are collected by means of the Incoming and Outgoing Passenger cards completed by all travellers. As well as being used for statistical purposes, the information collected is used by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs for administrative purposes. Data is made available on a quarterly basis from the first quarter of 1980, and relates to the number of movements in a specified time, rather than the number of travellers (i.e. the multiple movements of individual persons within the time period are each counted separately). This particular data set refers to information collected in 1981. Information collected includes category and mode of travel, reason for journey, duration of stay, country of birth, citizenship, dis/embarkation, as well as age, marital status, sex and occupation.