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Key Indicators

Population clock 25,415,704 Consumer price index 1.3% March quarter 2019 Gross domestic product 0.4% Quarterly change Mar 2019 Average weekly earnings $1,604.90 November 2018 Unemployment rate 5.1% May 2019

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Latest releases

Wednesday 17 July 2019
More households renting as home ownership falls
Housing Occupancy and Costs
Wednesday 17 July 2019
Study provides new insights into suicide and drug deaths
Research Paper: Psychosocial risk factors as they relate to coroner-referred deaths in Australia
Friday 12 July 2019
Inequality stable since 2013–14
Household Income and Wealth, Australia
Friday 12 July 2019
Chinese visitor arrivals down 1.2% from a year ago
Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia
Friday 12 July 2019
The 2017–18 SIH User Guide is now available
Survey of Income and Housing, User Guide, Australia

ABS and NT Government Memorandum of Understanding ABS and NT MOU The ABS has signed an MOU with the NT Government which will improve the collection of information for the 2021 Census as well as estimations of undercounts from the Census. There will be a focus on enhancing the counts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and of people experiencing homelessness.

Labour Account Australia, Quarterly Experimental Estimates, March 2019 New insights available into Proportion of Vacant Jobs The ABS’s new measure, Proportion of Vacant Jobs (PVJ), gives insights into demand for labour within industries. It shows the relationship between unmet demand (job vacancies) and met demand (filled jobs) and was introduced in the Quarterly Labour Account, March 2019.

6.6 million Aussies drive their car to work, up 500,000 since 2011

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