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6103.0 - Labour Force Survey Standard Products and Data Item Guide, Dec 2009
Latest ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 04/12/2009 First Issue |
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OCCUPATION OF LAST JOB This variable is coded using the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) (cat. no. 1220.0). The Occupation code assigned is based on the last job held. See OCCUPATION Applicable to: Unemployed persons aged 15 years and over.
ONE PARENT FAMILY A one parent family consists of a lone parent with at least one child (regardless of age) who is also usually resident in the family household. The family may also include any number of other related individuals.
ORIGINAL SERIES This variable refers to best level estimate of the survey data. Residual noise, seasonal patterns and the underlying direction of the series make it difficult to compare at different points in time. See SEASONALLY ADJUSTED and TREND
OTHER FAMILY See OTHER FAMILIES OTHER FAMILIES Families which are not couple families or one parent families, as defined. They include families in which there is no parent, for example, a family head living with a brother or sister.
OWN ACCOUNT WORKER An own account worker is a person who operates his or her own unincorporated economic enterprise or engages independently in a profession or trade and hires no employees (this category was formerly entitled self employed).
PARTICIPATION RATE For any group, the labour force expressed as a percentage of the Australian civilian population aged 15 years and over in the same group. Calculation: Participation Rate = Labour Force/Civilian Population aged 15 and over. Applicable to: Persons aged 15 years and over.
PART TIME EMPLOYED See EMPLOYED PART TIME PART TIME WORKERS Part time workers are employed persons who usually worked less than 35 hours a week (in all jobs) and either did so during the reference week, or were not at work in the reference week.
PERSONS (‘000) Persons aged 15 years and over, expressed in thousands. Applicable to: Persons aged 15 years and over.
PERSONS NOT IN THE LABOUR FORCE See NOT IN THE LABOUR FORCE POPULATION BENCHMARKS See CIVILIAN POPULATION REASON FOR LEAVING LAST JOB This variable refers to unemployed persons who had worked for two weeks or more in the past two years classified by whether they left that job voluntarily, that is, job leavers; or left that job involuntarily. See REASON FOR UNEMPLOYMENT
REASON FOR UNEMPLOYMENT This variable indicates an individual’s reason for being unemployed. See UNEMPLOYED Applicable to: Unemployed persons aged 15 years and over.
REASON NOT IN THE LABOUR FORCE This variable indicates an individual’s reason for not participating in the labour force. See NOT IN THE LABOUR FORCE Applicable to: Persons aged 15 years and over.
REGIONS See DISSEMINATION REGION REFERENCE WEEK
The reference week is used to determine a person's employment status at a point in time. More information can be found in Labour Statistics: Concepts, Sources and Methods (cat. no. 6102.0.55.001). RELATIONSHIP IN HOUSEHOLD This variable describes the relationship of each person residing within the same household. Applicable to: All households.
RELATIONSHIP OF HUSBAND OR HEAD This variable describes the relationship within a household, of the husband or family head to the other people residing within the same household. Applicable to: All households.
RESIDUAL CATEGORIES AND SUPPLEMENTARY CODES Residual categories in a classification are labelled Not elsewhere classified (n.e.c), Not elsewhere included (n.e.i.), Other or Miscellaneous. These categories are necessary because although in a classification meaningful categories are created through the application of certain criteria, not all observations can be classified into a homogeneous group, or the size of the observations does not allow them to be separately identified. Supplementary codes (often called dump codes) are used to process inadequately described responses. Not Further Defined codes (sometimes referred to as Undefined codes) are used to process incomplete, non-specific or imprecise responses which cannot be coded to the most detailed level of a classification structure. For example, birthplace responses relating to places which cannot be identified as lying within the boundaries of a country separately identified in the Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC), (cat. no. 1269.0), but which lie wholly within the boundaries of one of the classification’s Minor Groups, are coded to that Minor Group. It is important to note the distinction between Not Elsewhere Classified (NEC) categories and Not Further Defined (NED) codes. NEC categories are a formal part of a classification’s structure, designed to make a classification complete and exhaustive of all observations in scope. Adequately described, specific responses are coded to NEC categories in instances where a suitable substantive category is not included in the classification. As explained above, NFD codes are designed to facilitate processing by allowing inadequately described or non-specific responses to be coded to a broader level of the classification rather than be lost altogether. NFD codes are not a formal part of the classification. Other supplementary codes are also provided in classifications, for operational purposes, to facilitate the coding of responses to:
SACC See STANDARD AUSTRALIAN CLASSIFICATION OF COUNTRIES SAME-SEX COUPLE Two persons of the same sex who are in a couple relationship and are usually resident in the same household. See SOCIAL MARITAL STATUS
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED SERIES Seasonally adjusted estimates refer to original data that has had seasonal patterns removed. They contain residual noise and irregular influences that may be present in the underlying data. For very volatile series this makes it very difficult to compare seasonally adjusted movements at different points in time. Seasonally adjusted estimates are revised as new estimates become available. See ORIGINAL and TREND
SEX This variable identifies a person’s sex. Applicable to: Persons aged 15 years and over.
SEX OF SINGLE HEAD OR SAME SEX COUPLE This variable identifies the sex of a single head (lone parent) or same sex couple household. Applicable to: Persons aged 15 years and over. See LONE PARENT
SHORT-TERM UNEMPLOYED/UNEMPLOYMENT This variable identifies the number of persons unemployed for under 52 weeks. Applicable to: Unemployed persons aged 15 years and over.
SHORT-TERM UNEMPLOYED SINCE LAST FULL TIME JOB This variable identifies the number of persons unemployed for under 52 weeks, since their last full time job. Applicable to: Unemployed persons aged 15 years and over.
SINGLE HEAD See LONE PARENT SOCIAL MARITAL STATUS Social marital status is the relationship status of an individual with reference to another person who is usually resident in the household. A marriage exists when two people live together as husband and wife, or partners, regardless of whether the marriage is formalised through registration. Individuals are, therefore, regarded as married if they are in a de facto relationship, or if they are living with the person to whom they are registered as married. See SAME SEX COUPLE Applicable to: Persons aged 15 years and over.
STANDARD AUSTRALIAN CLASSIFICATION OF COUNTRIES (SACC) The Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC) (cat. no. 1269.0) is used to classify country of birth. The SACC replaced the Australian Standard Classification of Countries for Social Statistics (ASCCSS), but uses the same underlying principles that were the basis for ASCCSS. The SACC is based on the concept of geographic proximity. It groups neighbouring countries into progressively broader geographic areas based on similar social, cultural, economic and political characteristics.
STATE This variable identifies the state or territory of usual residence in the reference week. See AUSTRALIAN STANDARD GEOGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION (ASGC) and DISSEMINATION REGION Applicable to: All persons aged 15 years and over.
STATE CAPITAL CITIES The areas determining the six state capital cities are the Statistical Divisions for those capital cities defined in the Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC). See AUSTRALIAN STANDARD GEOGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION (ASGC) and DISSEMINATION REGION Applicable to: All persons aged 15 years and over.
STATUS IN EMPLOYMENT Status in employment classifies employed persons into employees, employers, own account workers, contributing family workers or unpaid voluntary workers. This variable identifies, for the reference week, an individual’s labour force status. Applicable to: Employed persons 15 years and over.
STUDENTS This variable includes persons engaged in full time or part time study who satisfy the criteria for classification as employed. Their labour force status is determined according to economic (work-related) activity undertaken in the survey reference period.
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