Australian Demographics Analysis, Profiling & Mapping
The reader is advised that Labour Market data provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has undergone a major overhaul leading up to the preparation of the February Quarter figures.
This profile is based on jobs data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The primary source is the monthly Labour Force survey by Regions (6291.0.55.001), but includes national data from 6202.0, detailed quarterly data from 6291.0.55.003, earnings by industry 6302.0 Job Vacancies Australia 6354.0 and Demographic Statistics 3101.0. We have also made some use
This profile is based on jobs data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The primary source is the monthly Labour Force survey by Regions (6291.0.55.001), but includes national data from 6202.0, detailed quarterly data from 6291.0.55.003, earnings by industry 6302.0 Job Vacancies Australia 6354.0 and Demographic Statistics 3101.0. The modelling used by ADS compares
We have been saying for some time that any improvement in the labour market could be identified by a rise in employment numbers, accompanied by a rise in the unemployment rate and this time may have finally arrived. What has been needed since the GFC is a surge in private sector jobs growth, strong enough
This profile is based on jobs data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The primary source is the monthly Labour Force survey by Regions (6291.0.55.001), but includes national data from 6202.0, detailed quarterly data from 6291.0.55.003, earnings by industry 6302.0 Job Vacancies Australia 6354.0 and Demographic Statistics 3101.0. The modelling used by ADS compares
This is the first time we have modelled per capita employment as well as unemployment and it was felt to be a good check on who is leaving theworkforce but not identifying as unemployed. This hidden unemployment has been growing over the past year, hiding a much higher real levelof unemployment. Some 18 of 69
After four years of Labor Governments Australia’s unemployment level has risen by 130,000, with the original rate of unemployment up by about one percent. The regions to suffer the biggest increases have been in Queensland, where the tourism strips with their highly mobile workforces, such as the Gold Coast, have seen unemployment double to almost
This profile is based on data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The primary source is the monthly Labour Force survey by Regions (6291.0.55.001), but includes national data from 6202.0, detailed quarterly data from 6291.0.55.003, earnings by industry 6302.0 and Demographic Statistics 3101.0. The modelling used by ADS compares this cross section of data
From May 2010 to May 2011the unemployment rate dropped from 5.2 percent to 5.0 percent, still about one percent higher than that inherited by the Labor Government, but looking surprisingly sensitive to any further interest rate increases. Unemployment rates are normally one percent lower in middle income suburbs, than in poor suburbs. Unemployment in rich
Our latest pre Budget profile on unemployment to March 2011shows that about half of last year’s school leavers, who would normally be chasing jobs in February 2011, were sufficiently concerned at missing out on a job that they had hit the employment market the previous October and November. But the full seasonal downward adjustment of
