6354.0 - Job Vacancies, Australia, May 2017 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 29/06/2017   
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MAY KEY FIGURES

May 2017
Feb 2017 to May 2017
May 2016 to May 2017
'000
% change
% change

Trend Estimates
Private sector
170.5
1.5
8.8
Public sector
18.7
3.2
13.5
Private and public sectors
189.2
1.7
9.2



Graph Image for Job Vacancies, Total and Private sector - Trend


MAY KEY POINTS


TREND ESTIMATES
  • Total job vacancies in May 2017 were 189,200, an increase of 1.7% from February 2017.
  • The number of job vacancies in the private sector was 170,500 in May 2017, an increase of 1.5% from February 2017.
  • The number of job vacancies in the public sector was 18,700 in May 2017, an increase of 3.2% from February 2017.


NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER) Release Date
August 2017 28 September 2017
November 2017 10 January 2018




ROUNDING

Estimates of percentage change shown in this release have been calculated using unrounded estimates, and may be different from, but are more accurate than, movements obtained from calculating percentage change using the rounded estimates presented in the Tables and the datacubes on the Downloads tab.


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