Successful and Unsuccessful Job Search Experience
CONTACT
Assistant Director
Labour Force Section
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Telephone (02) 6252 6504
Facsimile (02) 6252 7784
DESCRIPTION
This survey provides information about the characteristics and experiences of jobseekers. Information is presented for people who had started a job for wages or salary (successful jobseekers), and those who had looked for, but failed to gain, a job (unsuccessful jobseekers). Issues covered include method of job attainment, duration of looking for work, whether job starters were out of work prior to starting a new job, and whether they had obtained a job in their preferred occupation. Estimates can be cross-classified by standard demographic characteristics such as age, sex, marital status, relationship in family and birthplace.
Data from this survey are used to assess labour market trends and to develop policies and programs aimed at helping unemployed people, including people with family responsibilities, find jobs.
SCOPE
Persons in scope of the Labour Force Survey who had started or looked for a job for wages or salary during the previous 12 months. Excludes persons in non-private dwellings. Since 1997, excludes persons living in some remote and sparsely settled parts of Australia.
DISSEMINATION
Publication
Successful and Unsuccessful Job Search Experience, Australia (cat. no. 6245.0).
Data Service
Customised unpublished data are available in a variety of formats.
Data Details
Data are available at person level only.
Standard demographic, family and labour force information as for the Labour Force Survey.
Job search experience
Active steps taken to find work
Method of job attainment (includes through school programs)
Duration of looking for work before being offered a job
Whether out of work prior to starting job
Whether job started was in preferred occupation
Other selected topics
Educational attainment
Main field of study
GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE
Australia, States, Territories and Labour Force Statistical Regions within each State.
FREQUENCY OF COLLECTION
Two-yearly. Latest survey 1998.
METHOD OF COLLECTION
Monthly Population Survey.
HISTORICAL DATA
Conducted in 1982, 1986, 1990 and every two years since 1990. Comparisons among the surveys are possible.
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