4125.0 - Gender Indicators, Australia, Aug 2015

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 25/08/2015

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In This Issue Podcast Summary of key series + Economic Security Working population Earnings, income and economic situation Housing + Education + Health + Work and Family Balance + Safety and Justice + Democracy, Governance and Citizenship Future releases Still fewer women in positions of leadership (Media Release) About this Release History of changes	ECONOMIC SECURITY The Economic Security section contains the following sub-topics: Working population Earnings, income and economic situation Housing LATEST HIGHLIGHTS Unemployment rate equal, but underemployment rate much higher for women Latest data from the ABS Labour Force Survey shows that the unemployment rate for both men and women aged between 20 and 74 years was equal at 5% in 2014-15. Footnote(s): (a) Data averaged using 12 months in the financial year. (b) Until recently, ABS policy has been to revise benchmarks for labour force data on a five-yearly basis following final rebasing of population estimates to the latest Census of Population and Housing data. However, labour force population benchmarks are now updated more frequently when preliminary population estimates become available, and again when these preliminary estimates are subsequently revised. For this release of Gender Indicators, Australia, labour force estimates dating back to (and including) 2011-12 have been revised in accordance with this new benchmarking process. Future revisions to benchmarks will then take place every time a new year of labour force data becomes available for publishing in the Gender Indicators publication. Re-benchmarking historical data has not resulted in any material change to unemployment rates, participation rates or employment to population ratios. For more information see ABS Labour Force, Australia, Feb 2015 (cat. no. 6202.0). Source(s): ABS data available on request, Labour Force Survey Data from the ABS Labour Force survey also showed that there was a four percentage point difference in the underemployment rate between men and women aged 20-74 years in 2014-15. Male underemployment was 6% while female underemployment was 10%. Underemployment has increased for both men and women over the last five years. Footnote(s): (a) Data were calculated as an average of four quarters (August, November, February, May) in the financial year. (b) Until recently, ABS policy has been to revise benchmarks for labour force data on a five-yearly basis following final rebasing of population estimates to the latest Census of Population and Housing data. However, labour force population benchmarks are now updated more frequently when preliminary population estimates become available, and again when these preliminary estimates are subsequently revised. For this release of Gender Indicators, Australia, labour force estimates dating back to (and including) 2011-12 have been revised in accordance with this new benchmarking process. Future revisions to benchmarks will then take place every time a new year of labour force data becomes available for publishing in the Gender Indicators publication. Re-benchmarking historical data has not resulted in any material change to unemployment rates, participation rates or employment to population ratios. Source(s): ABS data available on request, Labour Force Survey. DATA VISUALISATION A visual representation of Labour force participation rate data, from the Economic Security domain is shown below. Simply go to the graph and click on the 'Play' button to see changes in the data over time. Details of the data used to create the graphs, and the original data sources, can be found in the relevant Data Cubes on the Downloads tab. Source(s): Labour Force Participation Rate, by Sex and Age-Labour force participation rate, by age group 2001-15 Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.