6222.0 - Job Search Experience, Australia, Jul 2002  
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Active steps taken to find work

Steps taken by unemployed persons in their search for work during the current period of unemployment include:

  • writing, telephoning or applying in person to an employer for work
  • answering a newspaper advertisement for a job
  • checking Centrelink touchscreens
  • checking workplace noticeboards
  • registering with Centrelink for job search assistance
  • registering with a Job Network employment agency
  • contacting other employment agency
  • advertising or tendering for work
  • contacting friends or relatives.

All difficulties in finding work

All difficulties in finding work experienced by unemployed persons during the current period of unemployment.

Bachelor degree or above

Bachelor degree or above includes qualifications at the Post graduate degree level, Graduate diploma and graduate certificate level and Bachelor degree level.

Centrelink

Centrelink is a statutory authority responsible for delivering a range of Commonwealth Government services, including the registration of persons for job search assistance and income support.

Duration of current period of unemployment

The elapsed period to the end of the reference week since a person began looking for work, or since a person last worked for two weeks or more, whichever is the shorter. Brief periods of work (of less than two weeks) since the person began looking for work are disregarded.

Employed

Persons aged 15 years and over who, during the reference week:
  • worked for one hour or more for pay, profit, commission or payment in kind, in a job or business or on a farm (comprising employees, employers and own account workers)
  • worked for one hour or more without pay in a family business or on a farm (i.e.contributing family workers)
  • were employees who had a job but were not at work and were:
  • away from work for less than four weeks up to the end of the reference week
  • away from work for more than four weeks up to the end of the reference week and received pay for some or all of the four week period to the end of the reference week
  • away from work as a standard work or shift arrangement
  • on strike or locked out
  • on workers' compensation and expected to return to their job
  • were employers or own account workers who had a job, business or farm, but were not at work.

Industry

All occurrences of industry in this publication refer to Division, as classified by the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), 1993 (cat.no.1292.0).

Job leavers

Unemployed persons who have worked for two weeks or more in the past two years and left that job voluntarily, for example, because of unsatisfactory work arrangements/pay/hours; the job was a holiday job or they left the job to return to studies; or their last job was running their own business and they closed down or sold that business for reasons other than financial difficulties.

Job losers

Unemployed persons who have worked for two weeks or more in the past two years and left that job involuntarily, that is, were laid off or retrenched from that job; left that job because of their own ill-health or injury; the job was seasonal or temporary; or their last job was running their own business and the business closed down because of financial difficulties.

Job Network employment agency

The Job Network is a national network of private, community and government organisations on contract to the government to provide employment placement services to the community. Jobseekers who are registered with Centrelink for job search assistance are able to contact any Job Network provider in their area to receive this service.

Level of highest educational attainment

Highest educational attainment identifies the highest achievement a person has attained in any area of study. It is defined as the highest educational attainment a person has achieved, and is not a measurement of relative importance of different fields of study. Higher levels of education are typically characterised by the greater significance of theoretical learning and greater complexity of factual and practical learning. It is derived from a person's highest year of school completed and level of highest non-school educational qualification. The highest qualification completed by the respondent is classified according to the Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED) (cat.no.1272.0). See paragraphs 14 to 16 of the Explanatory Notes for further details on how highest educational attainment is determined.

Looking for full-time work

Unemployed persons who:
  • actively looked for full-time work and were available for work in the reference week
  • actively looked for work and were not available for work in the reference week because they were waiting to start a new full-time job.

Looking for part-time work

Unemployed persons who:
  • actively looked for part-time work only and were available for work in the reference week
  • actively looked for work and were not available for work in the reference week because they were waiting to start a new part-time job.

Main difficulty in finding work

The main difficulty experienced during the current period of unemployment.

Main English-speaking countries

Comprises the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, the United States of America and New Zealand.

Mean duration of current period of unemployment

The duration obtained by dividing the aggregate number of weeks a group has been unemployed by the number of persons in that group.

Median duration of current period of unemployment

The duration which divides unemployed persons into two equal size groups, one comprising persons whose duration of unemployment is above the median, and the other, persons whose duration is below it.

Number of offers of employment

The number of separate offers of employment received during the current period of unemployment.

Occupation

All occurrences of occupation in this publication relate to Major Group as defined by the Australian Standard Classification of Occupations, Second Edition (ASCO) (cat.no.1220.0).

Number of spells of looking for work in the previous 12 months

The number of times the person reported being out of work and looking for a job during the 12 months up to the end of the reference week.

Prefers to work more hours

Whether an employed person who usually works part-time hours would prefer to work more hours.

Time spent looking for work in the previous 12 months

The total number of weeks a person has been both out of work and looking for work at the same time during the 12 months up to the end of the reference week. Excludes the time a person spent looking for work while on holiday from a job and any week in which the person did any work at all.

Unemployed

Persons aged 15 years and over who were not employed during the reference week, and:
  • had actively looked for full-time or part-time work at any time in the four weeks up to the end of the reference week
  • were available for work in the reference week
  • were waiting to start a new job within four weeks from the end of the reference week, and could have started in the reference week if the job had been available then.

Whether had prior knowledge that job was available

Whether an employed person knew that a job was available with their current employer before making an approach to the employer for a job.

Whether first job ever held

Whether the job currently held by an employed person is the first job they have ever held.

Whether has ever worked

Whether an unemployed person has previously held a job.

Whether out of work prior to starting job

Whether an employed person was unemployed prior to starting the job they currently held.

Year 12 or below

Year 12 or below is participation in pre-primary, primary or secondary level education, regardless of the institution or location where the study is or was undertaken. It therefore includes such study undertaken in a TAFE or other institution.