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 Government departments and agencies, and
 schools and hospitals operated by the state, or by religious
organisations and charities.
The national accounts production boundary embraces the production of all
goods and services, with the exception of services produced by household
controlled enterprises solely for consumption by the household itself. This
exclusion relates to (for example) the cooking of meals for household
members, household washing and cleaning and care of dependents. However,
the "shelter services" provided by owner occupied dwellings are included
within the production boundary.
Australia’s economic territory includes all geographies under the control of
the Australian Government, i.e. the Australian mainland, off-shore islands,
Antarctic territories, Australian embassies and military establishments in other
countries, and Australia's exclusive maritime economic zone. It excludes
foreign embassies and military establishments in Australia.
An enterprise is considered "resident" if the "economic interest" of its
controlling institutional unit (household, corporation or quasi-corporation) is
centred in Australia’s economic territory.
Scope Adjustments
Adjustments for scope and conceptual differences between data sources
are required in compiling the Australian Labour Account. Scope adjustments
are made in each of the four quadrants in the Australian Labour Account to
ensure coherence. Scope adjustments made in one quadrant may be applied
to another quadrant, and flow through to a third quadrant, based on the
identity relationships.
Filled Jobs (business sources) is mainly based on summing estimates from
two different business surveys. Data from a third source is added to account
for employment in an industry division that is outside the scope of the primary
sources. The following scope adjustments are made:
 add the number of persons from known industries excluded from
primary business survey sources,
 add the number of persons employed in the permanent defence forces,
 add the number of unpaid contributing family workers,
 add the number of child workers who do not work for an employer (as
they are excluded from business surveys), and
 subtract the number of persons from specific industry subdivisions
duplicated in primary sources to avoid double counting.
Filled Jobs (household sources) is based on the number of jobs held by
people employed in main jobs and secondary jobs soured from the Labour
Force Survey (LFS), which is a household survey. Scope adjustments made to
Filled Jobs (household sources) are similar to those made to Filled Jobs
(business sources), to align the employed person estimates from the LFS with

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