6333.0 - Characteristics of Employment, Australia, August 2015 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 31/08/2016   
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ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION

The statistics in this release were compiled from the Characteristics of Employment (COE) Survey conducted throughout Australia in August 2015 as a supplement to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) monthly Labour Force Survey (LFS). Questions were asked of all employed persons except for those who worked as contributing family workers in their main job.

This release presents information about estimates of all employed persons in August 2015. Data are presented on the weekly earnings of employees and owner managers of incorporated enterprises (OMIEs), independent contractors and working arrangements, including overwork, job flexibility, working patterns and locations of work. This information is cross classified by a range of personal characteristics, characteristics of employment such as full-time or part-time status, industry and occupation of main job, and demographic characteristics.

Caution should be exercised when comparing results from the 2015 Characteristics of Employment survey to previous surveys such as Forms of Employment (FOE) (2008–2013) and Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership (EEBTUM), as the populations in this release are not directly comparable.

For comparisons of earnings data, prior to 2014 users should use the population group 'Employees' from EEBTUM and from 2014 the population group 'Employees and OMIEs' from COE.

CONFIDENTIALITY

To minimise the risk of identifying individuals in aggregate statistics, a technique is used in this release to randomly adjust cell values. This technique is called perturbation. Perturbation involves small random adjustment of the statistics and is considered the most satisfactory technique for avoiding the release of identifiable statistics while maximising the range of information that can be released. These adjustments have a negligible impact on the underlying pattern of the statistics. After perturbation, a given published cell value will be consistent across all tables. However, adding up cell values to derive a total will not necessarily give the same result as published totals.

MICRODATA

Characteristics of Employment 2015 microdata will be available via TableBuilder (cat. no. 6333.0.0.001). For more information see About TableBuilder.

ROUNDING

As estimates have been rounded, discrepancies may occur between sums of the component items and totals.

INQUIRIES

For more information about ABS data available on request, contact National Information and Referral Service in Canberra on 1300 135 070 or via email to <client.services@abs.gov.au>. The ABS Privacy Policy outlines how the ABS handles any personal information that you provide to us.