Career Experience
CONTACT
Assistant Director
Labour Force Section
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Telephone (02) 6252 6504
Facsimile (02) 6252 7784
DESCRIPTION
This survey provides information on the career experience of wage and salary earners. It provides details of current job, changes in job such as promotions and transfers, and training opportunities. Other information collected includes educational attainment, status of job, income, breaks away from work for six months or more, and reasons for the break, including family reasons. Estimates can be cross-classified by standard demographic characteristics such as age, sex, marital status, relationship in household and birthplace. Family related data include: family type, number of dependent children, type of leave taken when the youngest child was born, and child care arrangements.
Career experience data can be used to gain insights into career opportunities, and issues such as employees with family responsibilities, workplace flexibility and barriers to career development.
SCOPE
Persons in scope of the Labour Force Survey who are employees in their main job. Excludes persons aged 15-20 still at school and persons in non-private dwellings. Since 1997, excludes persons living in some remote and sparsely settled parts of Australia.
DISSEMINATION
Publication
Career Experience, Australia (cat. no. 6254.0).
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Customised unpublished data are available in a variety of formats.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.
Additional demographic and family information
Child care arrangements
Education and training
Educational attainment
All types of training received in the last 12 months
Whether received training or studied with current employer in the last 12 months
Whether received training or studied and had change with current employer in the last 12 months
Whether training was supported by employer
Other selected topics
Status of job (whether full-time/part-time, permanent/casual)
Industry
Occupation
Changes in work (including whether promoted or transferred)
Career breaks
Income
GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE
Australia, States, Territories and Labour Force Statistical Regions within each State.
FREQUENCY OF COLLECTION
Irregular. Latest survey 1998.
METHOD OF COLLECTION
Monthly Population Survey.
HISTORICAL DATA
Conducted in 1993, 1996 and 1998. Comparisons among the surveys are possible.
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