Multiple Jobholding

NAME OF ORGANISATION
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

OVERVIEW

The Multiple Jobholding survey ascertains the extent of multiple jobholding, the hours worked by multiple jobholders and earnings from second jobs.

PURPOSE

The survey contributes to National Accounts' estimates of wage and salary earners and is also used to adjust estimates of employment from the Survey of Employment and Earnings.

SCOPE

This survey is conducted as part of the Monthly Population Survey, which comprises the Labour Force Survey and, in most months, a supplementary survey topic.

SCOPE - Labour Force Survey

The Labour Force Survey includes all persons aged 15 and over except:

• members of the permanent defence forces;
• certain diplomatic personnel of overseas governments, customarily excluded from census and estimated populations;
• overseas residents in Australia; and
• members of non-Australian defence forces (and their dependants) stationed in Australia.

From July 1993 Jervis Bay Territory is also excluded from the scope of the survey. Before July 1993 it was included in estimates for the Australian Capital Territory.

SCOPE - Multiple Jobholding

The scope for this survey was the same as that used for the Labour Force Survey except that it was restricted to persons who stated that they had more than one job in the reference week and were an employee in at least one of their jobs.

Students at boarding schools, patients in hospitals, residents of homes (e.g. retirement homes, homes for the handicapped), and inmates of prisons are further excluded.

From July 1997, all supplementary surveys excluded persons in remote and sparsely settled areas of Australia. The exclusion of these persons has only a minor effect on estimates for individual States or Territories.

COVERAGE - Labour Force Survey

In the Labour Force Survey, coverage rules are applied which aim to ensure that each person is associated with only one dwelling, and hence has only one chance of selection. The chance of a person being enumerated at two separate dwellings in the one survey is considered to be negligible.

Persons who are away from their usual residence for six weeks or less at the time of interview are enumerated at their usual residence (relevant information may be obtained from other usual residents present at the time of the survey).

DATA DETAIL

Conceptual framework

The survey covers persons who had more than one job in the reference period and who were employees in at least one of their jobs.

Main outputs

Results of the survey including data tables and analysis are released in publication format (ABS Cat. No. 6216.0), and include the following tables:

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

• Proportion of labour force
• Occupation of second job as a proportion of all person employed in that occupation
• Industry of second job as a proportion of all person employed in that industry
• Hours worked, status in employment in main job, whether worked in second job in the reference week

INDUSTRY AND OCCUPATION

• Main job
• Second job
• Whether main and second job are in the same industry

HOURS WORKED IN SECOND JOB

• Hours worked in main job, occupation and industry of second job

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS WHO WERE EMPLOYEES IN BOTH JOBS AND WORKED IN THEIR SECOND JOB IN THE REFERENCE WEEK

• Hours worked and average weekly earnings in main, second and all jobs by relationship in household
• Weekly earnings in main job by weekly earnings in second job

POPULATIONS

• State or Territory of usual residence

Demographics: State, Area, Region, Sex, Marital Status, Relationship in Household, Period of Arrival and Age.

Country of Birth: The Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC).

Occupation: Australian Standard Classification of Occupations Second Edition (ASCO SE).

Industry: Australia and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC).

Other concepts (summary)

Not applicable

GEOGRAPHIC DETAIL
1. National & State/Territory\1.01 Australia
1. National & State/Territory\1.02 All States & Territories
2. Parts of State\2.12 Other Geographic Areas\2.12.03 Part of State Metropolitan
2. Parts of State\2.12 Other Geographic Areas\2.12.04 Part of State-Extra Metropolitan

Comments and/or Other Regions

Not all data available for all areas.

COLLECTION FREQUENCY
Other

Frequency comments

The survey was first conducted in November 1965 then regularly every second year from August 1973 until August 1987 then in July 1991, August 1994, August 1997 and July 1999.

COLLECTION HISTORY

This survey was first conducted in November 1965. Then every two years from August 1973 until August 1987, then in July 1991, August 1994, August 1997 and July 1999.

DATA AVAILABILITY
Yes

Data availability comments