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This page provides links to ABS labour publications and a range of feature articles and reference material, all of which can be downloaded free of charge. In addition, more detailed data can be provided on a user pays basis.
STATISTICAL PUBLICATIONS
SPREADSHEETS
DATA CUBES
CONFIDENTIALISED UNIT RECORD FILES
FEATURE ARTICLES
INFORMATION PAPERS
STATISTICAL PUBLICATIONS
13. Yearbooks and other multi-subject products
1301.0 - Yearbook Australia - provides a link to the labour chapter of the latest issue of the ABS yearbook.
1309.0 - Australia at a Glance - this publication provides a condensed snapshot of Australia and includes data for Australia's labour force, wages, earnings and hours.
1345.0 - Key Economic Indicators - is a summary of Australia's key economic and social indicators. Labour force, demography and income data are available in table format and as a graphical summary.
1350.0 - Australian Economic Indicators - the publication provides a broad basis for analysis and research on the Australian economy and contains statistics about labour force and demography, incomes and labour costs.
41. Social Statistics - general
4102.0 - Australian Social Trends - presents statistical analysis and commentary on a wide range of current social issues. New articles are released quarterly and are organised into eight chapters including work.
61. Labour Statistics - general
6102.0.55.001 - Labour Statistics: Concepts, Sources and Methods
This manual describes the concepts and definitions underpinning Australian labour statistics, the data sources and the methods used in the collection and compilation of these statistics.
6104.0 - Labour Statistics in Brief, Australia (annual)
This pamphlet presents a range of summary statistics with the emphasis on simple tabular and graphical presentations. Most of the ABS labour collections are covered, including the Labour Force Survey, the range of employer surveys and the industrial disputes collection.
6105.0 - Australian Labour Market Statistics, Australia (irregular)
This publication draws together data from a range of sources, mostly ABS household and business surveys, to provide an overall picture of the labour market. The frequency of Australian Labour Market Statistics changed from quarterly to irregular in July 2012. It will continue to include data tables on employment type, volume measures of labour underutilisation, and extended labour force underutilisation.
62. Labour Force
6202.0 - Labour Force, Australia (monthly)
This publication contains summary results of the monthly Labour Force Survey containing estimates of employed and unemployed persons classified by sex, full-time/part-time status, states and territories and some age groups; and persons not in the labour force.
6206.0 - Labour Force Experience, Australia (two-yearly)
This publication presents information about the labour force experience of the civilian population aged 15–69 years during the year prior to the survey. Details include the number of weeks spent working, looking for work or out of the labour force during the year.
6209.0 - Labour Mobility, Australia (two-yearly)
This publication provides information on job mobility and job tenure for people aged 15 years and over.
6211.0 - Child Employment, Australia (irregular)
This publication presents information on how many children are working with a focus on occupation and school/work balance. Questions were asked of the parent or guardian to collect information on work done in the last 12 months for all children in the household aged 5 to 14 years.
6216.0 - Multiple Jobholding, Australia (irregular)
This publication presents information about multiple jobholders, including estimates of the number and characteristics of people holding a second job, as well as details about that job.
6220.0 - Persons Not in the Labour Force, Australia (annual)
This publication provides information about people who were not in the labour force, including whether they wanted to work, reasons why they were not actively looking for work, availability for work, and main activity while not in the labour force.
6222.0 - Job Search Experience, Australia (annual)
This publication presents information about the experiences of unemployed people in seeking work, in terms of the steps they have taken to find work and the difficulties they have encountered in finding work. It also provides estimates of employed people who have successfully obtained a job in the previous 12 months.
6224.0.55.001 - Labour Force Australia: Labour Force Status and Other Characteristics of Families, Australia (annual)
This publication presents information on families.
6227.0 - Education and Work, Australia (annual)
This publication presents selected information on participation in education, highest educational attainment, transition from education to work and current labour force and demographic characteristics for the civilian population aged 15–64 years.
6248.0.55.002 - Employment and Earnings, Public Sector, Australia (annual)
This publication contains estimates of gross earnings and number of public sector employees by level of government by state.
6250.0 - Labour Force Status and Other Characteristics of Migrants, Australia (three-yearly)
This publication presents information on the labour force participation of migrants cross-tabulated by migration category, country of birth; educational attainment and age group on arrival and whether occupation before migration was the same as current occupation.
6265.0 - Underemployed Workers, Australia (annual)
This publication provides information on underemployment. People who worked less than 35 hours in the week prior to the survey who would have preferred to work more hours were asked about whether they were looking for work with more hours, available to start work with more hours, and their experience in looking for work with more hours. Other information includes the duration of the current period of insufficient work, and the number of extra hours preferred.
6266.0 - Retrenchment and Redundancy, Australia (discontinued)
This publication presents information on the number and characteristics of persons who have been retrenched or accepted redundancy packages across Australia in the previous three years.
6275.0 - Locations of Work, Australia (three-yearly)
This publication provides information about people aged 15 years and over and the types of places they work, with particular focus on people who usually worked more hours at home than elsewhere in their main or second job or business.
6287.0 - Labour Force Characteristics of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, Estimates from the Labour Force Survey (annual)
This publication provides estimates of the labour force characteristics of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians using data from the Labour Force Survey. It also draws attention to statistical and data quality issues that should be considered when using the estimates.
6292.0 - Forthcoming changes to Labour Force Statistics (irregular)
This publication provides users of LFS data with information about changes being made to the estimates, and the impact the changes may have on previously published labour force estimates.63. Earnings, hours and employment conditions
6302.0 - Average Weekly Earnings, Australia (quarterly)
This publication contains estimates of average weekly ordinary time earnings and average weekly total earnings for full-time adult employees and average weekly total earnings for all employees.
6306.0 - Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia (two-yearly)
This publication provides statistics on the composition and distribution of earnings and hours of employees and whether their pay is set by award, collective agreement or individual arrangement.
6310.0 - Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership, Australia (annual)
This publication presents information from three survey topics: weekly earnings of employees, core employment benefits and trade union members. Core employment benefits data includes information relating to sick leave, annual leave, long-service leave, maternity/paternity leave and superannuation coverage. Information about the level of trade union membership is also provided.
6321.0.55.001 - Industrial Disputes, Australia (quarterly)
This publication presents information on the number of disputes, employees involved, working days lost and working days lost per 1,000 employees in industrial disputes involving stoppages of work of 10 working days or more.
6324.0 - Work-Related Injuries, Australia (four-yearly)
This publication provides information on persons who worked at some time in the previous 12 months and who suffered a work-related injury or illness.
6342.0 - Working Time Arrangements, Australia (three-yearly)
This publication provides information about paid employees (excluding payment in kind and contributing family workers) aged 15 years and over and their working arrangements, such as shift work, overtime, rostered days off and start and finish times.
6345.0 - Labour Price Index, Australia (quarterly)
This publication presents measured changes in the price of labour services resulting from market pressures.
6348.0.55.001 - Labour Costs, Australia (irregular)
This publication contains estimates of labour costs for the private and public sectors including employee earnings, employer payments for superannuation, workers' compensation, payroll tax and fringe benefits tax.
6354.0 - Job Vacancies, Australia (quarterly)
This publication contains estimates of the number of job vacancies with state and territory and industry dissections.
6359.0 - Forms of Employment, Australia (annual)
This publication presents information about employed persons (excluding contributing family workers) aged 15 years and over and their employment arrangements in the Australian workforce. Among the topics covered are the different types of employment arrangements including contract work, casual employment and leave entitlements, and employment characteristics such as hours worked, industry and occupation.
6361.0 - Employment Arrangements, Retirement and Superannuation, Australia (six-yearly)
This publication presents information about people's employment arrangements such as type of worker (e.g. casuals, owner managers) and information on whether people are contributing to superannuation. Retirement was included in the 2007 Survey of Employment Arrangements, Retirement and Superannuation (SEARS).
SPREADSHEETS
6202.0 - Labour Force, Australia, Spreadsheets (monthly)
These spreadsheets contain summary results of the monthly Labour Force Survey, including estimates of employed and unemployed persons classified by sex, full-time/part-time status, states and territories and some age groups; and persons not in the labour force.
6248.0.55.002 - Employment and Earnings, Public Sector, Australia (annual)
These time series spreadsheets contain estimates of gross earnings and number of public sector employees by level of government by state.
6291.0.55.001 - Labour force, Australia - Detailed, Electronic Delivery (monthly)
These time series spreadsheets include data collected from the Labour Force Survey. The spreadsheets contain broad level data covering all the major items of the Labour Force Survey in time series format, including seasonally adjusted and trend estimates.
6291.0.55.003 - Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, Quarterly (quarterly)
These time series spreadsheets include data collected from the Labour Force Survey in February, May, August and November. The spreadsheets contain broad level data covering all the major items of the Labour Force Survey in time series format, including seasonally adjusted and trend estimates.
6302.0 - Average Weekly Earnings, Australia (quarterly)
These spreadsheets contain estimates of average weekly ordinary time earnings and average weekly total earnings for full-time adult employees and average weekly total earnings for all employees.
6321.0.55.001 - Industrial Disputes, Australia (quarterly)
These time series spreadsheets present information on the number of disputes, employees involved, working days lost and working days lost per 1,000 employees in industrial disputes involving stoppages of work of 10 working days or more.
6345.0 - Labour Price Index, Australia (quarterly)
These spreadsheets present measures of changes in the price of labour services resulting from market pressures.
6354.0 - Job Vacancies, Australia (quarterly)
These time series spreadsheets present estimates of the number of job vacancies with state and territory and industry dissections.
DATA CUBES
6105.0 Data cubes
All families, Family type by labour force status
Employed Persons, Expected future duration with current employer/business
Unemployed Persons
Underemployed, Industry and Occupation
Extended labour force underutilisation rate (annual)
Volume measures of labour underutilisation (annual)
Employment type (annual)
Other data cubes
6204.0.55.001 - Labour Force Historical Timeseries, Australia, February 2009
These data cubes provide historical Labour Force Survey (LFS) time series data on the civilian population by labour force status, age, marital status, birthplace, state and territory of usual residence, industry, occupation, hours worked and duration of unemployment.
6220.0 - Persons Not in the Labour Force, Australia (annual)
These data cubes provide information on the characteristics of people not in the labour force such as their main activity while not in the labour force and the main reason they are not looking for work.
6224.0.55.001 - Labour Force Status and Other Characteristics of Families, Australia (annual)
From September 2008, these data cubes contain detailed monthly information about labour force status and other characteristics of families using data collected in the Labour Force Survey. Previously these datacubes were produced on an annual basis.
6238.0 - Retirement and Retirement Intentions, Australia (two-yearly)
These data cubes present information about retirement and retirement intentions of people aged 45 years and over who have, at some time, worked for two weeks or more.
6239.0 - Barriers and Incentives to Labour Force Participation, Australia (two-yearly)
These data cubes focus on people who are 18 years and over who are either not employed or work very few hours (0–15 hours).
6291.0.55.001 - Labour force, Australia - Detailed, Electronic Delivery (monthly)
These data cubes include data collected from the Labour Force Survey. The spreadsheets contain broad level data covering all the major items of the Labour Force Survey in time series format, including seasonally adjusted and trend estimates. The data cubes contain more detailed original data than the spreadsheets.
6291.0.55.003 - Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, Quarterly (quarterly)
These data cubes include data collected from the Labour Force Survey in February, May, August and November. The datacubes contain more detailed original data than the spreadsheets, such as industry and occupation.
6306.0 - Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia (two-yearly)
These data cubes provide statistics on the composition and distribution of earnings and hours of employees and whether their pay is set by award, collective agreement or individual arrangement.
6310.0 - Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership, Time Series (annual)
These data cubes contain annual time series data of mean and median earnings, and trade union membership.
CONFIDENTIALISED UNIT RECORD FILES
6202.0.30.001 - Microdata: Labour Force Survey and Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership, Australia: Basic Confidentialised Unit Record File (two-yearly)
This Basic Confidentialised Unit Record File (CURF) provides information from both the monthly Labour Force Survey and the Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership supplementary survey.
6202.0.30.002 - Labour Force Survey and Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership, Australia: Basic and Expanded Confidentialised Unit Record File, Technical Manual (two-yearly)
This paper provides information about confidentialised unit record data from the August 2006 Labour Force Survey and Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership supplementary survey.
6202.0.30.004 - Labour Force Survey and Labour Mobility, Australia: Basic and Expanded CURF
This Basic Confidentialised Unit Record File (CURF) contains data from both the monthly Labour Force Survey and the Labour Mobility supplementary survey.
6202.0.30.005 - Technical Manual: Labour Force Survey and Labour Mobility, Australia: Basic and Expanded Confidentialised Unit Record File
This paper provides information about the release of microdata from the February 2006 Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the Labour Mobility survey.
6306.0.55.001 - Microdata: Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia: Expanded Confidentialised Unit Record File
This Expanded Confidentialised Unit Record File (CURF) provides information from the May 2006 Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours.
6306.0.55.002 - Technical Manual: Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia, Expanded CURF
This technical manual provides information about confidentialised unit record data from the May 2006 Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours.
6361.0.55.001 - Microdata: Employment Arrangements, Retirement and Superannuation, Expanded CURF
This Expanded Confidentialised Unit Record File (CURF) consists of variables from the Employment Arrangements, Retirement and Superannuation 2007 master file at the unit record level.
6361.0.55.002 - User Guide: Employment Arrangements and Superannuation, Australia
This publication contains details about the 2007 Survey of Employment Arrangements, Retirement and Superannuation (SEARS 2007).
FEATURE ARTICLES
The following articles appeared in Australian Labour Market Statistics (cat. no. 6105.0).
July 2012
Volume measures of labour force underutilisation
April 2012
Underemployment patterns and the global financial crisis (GFC)
October 2011
Fifty years of labour force: now and then
Employment or jobs - what does the labour force survey measure?
July 2011
Trends in employee methods of setting pay and jurisdictional coverage
Employment classifications
April 2011
Aggregate monthly hours worked: States and Territories
January 2011
Labour underutilisation: more than unemployment
Measures of underutilisation
Labour force characteristics during recent economic downturns
October 2010
Trends in hours worked
Shift workers
July 2010
Aggregate monthly hours worked
Trade union membership
Working time arrangements
April 2010
Duration of underutilisation
Retrenched unemployed people
January 2010
Labour hire workers
October 2009
Methods of setting pay
Volume measures of labour underutilisation
July 2009
Extended labour force underutilisation rate
Historical labour underutilisation
Independent contractors
Jurisdictional coverage
Underutilisation in the economic downturn
April 2009
Job flexibility of casual employees
Work and family balance
Spotlight on labour underutilisation
January 2009
Comparing unemployment and the claimant count
Jobless Families
Retirement Intentions
Spotlight on Underutilisation
October 2008
Interstate Commuters
Measures of Casual Employment
July 2008
Quarterly Labour Force Underutilisation Rate
Technical report: Underenumeration in the Labour Force Survey: Findings of a Census data enhancement quality study
Employment type
Maternity leave
Underemployed workers
Volume measures of labour underutilisation
January 2008
Jurisdictional coverage of pay-setting arrangements
Spotlight: First job starters
October 2007
Census and the Labour Force Survey
Spotlight on Available labour of the unemployed
July 2007
Spotlight: Employment type
April 2007
Spotlight: Methods of setting pay
Spotlight: Updated volume measures of labour underutilisation
January 2007
Changes to ABS measures of employee remuneration
October 2006
Changes in where people work over time
Spotlight: Employment in Information and Communication Technology
July 2006
Labour force transitions
Job search experience of unemployed people
Spotlight: Employment typeApril 2006
Updated volume measures of labour underutilisation
January 2006
Long-term unemployment
The relationship between GDP and employment
Labour outcomes of migrants
October 2005
Technical report: Proposals from the review of ABS working arrangements statistics
Job starters
Comparison of ABS measures of employee remuneration
Technical report: Standard error models for the Labour Force Survey
Spotlight: Employment type
July 2005
Technical report: Changes to coding processes for industry and occupation in the Labour Force Survey
Spotlight: Employee share schemes
Full-time and part-time participation in Australia: a cohort analysis
Population, participation and productivity: contributions to Australia's economic growth
April 2005
Health, disability, age and labour force participation
Spotlight: Methods of setting pay
People who work few hours
Spotlight: Annual measures of labour underutilisation
January 2005
Labour force participation in Australia
Experimental estimates of the average age at withdrawal from the labour force
Spotlight: Labour Price Index
Technical report: Implementation of computer assisted interviewing in the Labour Force Survey
Employment in information and communication technology (ICT)
October 2004
Mature age people and the labour force
Changes in types of employment
July 2004
Labour Force Survey regions
Spotlight: Industrial disputes
Children living without an employed parent
Labour underutilisation
April 2004
Job search experience: Methods and barriers in finding jobs
Spotlight: Country of birth
Spotlight: Methods of setting pay
Spotlight: Multiple job holders
Spotlight: Occupation
Spotlight: Parental leave
Technical report: Improvements to labour force estimates
Trade union membership
January 2004
Changes to labour force survey seasonal adjustment process
Employment in information and communication technology
Labour force participation: international comparison
Population, participation and productivity: contributions to Australia's economic growth
October 2003
Labour market transitions of teenagers
Technical report: New Labour Force Survey sample selections: analysis of the effect on estimates
July 2003
Unemployment and participation rates in Australia: a cohort analysis
Experimental volume measures of labour underutilisation
Technical report: Measures of weekly hours worked
April 2003
Technical report: Labour Force Survey sample redesign
Characteristics of underemployed workers
Do job vacancies provide a leading indicator of employment growth?
The following articles appeared in Labour Force, Australia (cat. no. 6202.0).
June 2012
What's new in Labour Force
Labour Households Surveys Content Review and the LFS
May 2012
Employment and Mining in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia
April 2012
Population benchmarks and Labour Force Survey
ABS response to recent concerns expressed about employment estimates
March 2012
Annual Seasonal Reanalysis (ASR)
February 2012
Exploring Labour Force data on joblessness
January 2012
Employment level estimates versus employment to population explained
October 2011
Understanding Labour Force
November 2010
Aggregate monthly hours by state and territory
September 2010
Labour force survey population benchmarks
July 2009
Aggregate monthly hours worked
May 2009
Labour Underutilisation
April 2009
Interpreting gross flows
March 2009
Understanding movements in employment
The following articles appeared in Labour Force, Australia (cat. no. 6203.0) ceased.
February 2003
Seasonal Reanalysis of Monthly Labour Force Survey Estimates
December 2002
Volatility of labour force estimates
October 2002
Measures of labour underutilisation
February 2002
Seasonal reanalysis of monthly labour force estimates
October 2001
Full-time and part-time employment
August 2001
Experimental estimates: labour force characteristics of Indigenous Australians
June 2001
Duration of unemployment: recent definitional changes
February 2001
Unemployment and supplementary measures of underutilised labour
May 2000
Status in employment data changes: correction
April 2000
Using the unemployment rate series to illustrate the seasonal adjustment process
December 1999
Why are there differences between two seasonally adjusted measures of Australian total employment?
November 1999
Industry, occupation and status in employment data
INFORMATION PAPERS
6107.0 - Information Paper: Outcomes of the Labour Household Surveys Content Review, 2012
Presents the outcomes of the Labour Household Survey Content Review. It outlines the intended changes to the Labour Force Survey and the labour supplementary surveys resulting from the review, as well as a timeframe for their implementation.
6227.0.30.002 - Information Paper: Survey of Education and Work, Australia - Confidentialised Unit Record File
| Provides information about the confidentialised unit record data from the 2005 Survey of Education and Work. |
6232.0 - Information Paper: Questionnaires Used in the Labour Force Survey
Provides details of the latest Labour Force Survey questionnaire.
6262.0 - Information Paper: Regional Labour Force Statistics
Discusses the availability of regional labour force estimates derived from the monthly Labour Force Survey. The paper provides details about the regions for which data are available; information regarding changes to regional boundaries as a result of the most recent sample redesign; and information regarding the reliability of the statistics.
6269.0 - Information Paper: Labour Force Survey Sample Design
Provides information on changes to the sample used for the Labour Force Survey. Outlines the current sample design used in the survey and changes made to the design over the history of the survey.
6292.0 - Information Paper: Forthcoming Changes to Labour Force Statistics
This publication provides users of LFS data with information about changes being made to the estimates, and the impact the changes may have on previously published labour force estimates.
6298.0 - Labour Force Survey Standard Errors
Provides a comprehensive discussion of the reliability of estimates from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). It includes an explanation of how to calculate standard errors for LFS estimates using the associated data cube.
6313.0 - Information Paper: Changes to ABS Measures of Employee Remuneration, 2006
This paper presents the conceptual basis for the range of ABS measures of employee remuneration, and the outcomes of the review, including changes proposed for some ABS statistical series.
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This page first published 27 September 2006, last updated 8 August 2012 |
