Concepts and data items: A

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Actively looking for work
Actual hours worked
Age
Aggregate duration of job search
Aggregate hours worked
Aggregate monthly hours worked
Aggregate weeks unemployed
All jobs
Attending full-time education
Attending full-time tertiary educational institution
Attending school
Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO)
Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC)
Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS)
Available to work





ACTIVELY LOOKED FOR WORK

Specific steps taken by job seekers to find work. Actively looked for work includes: written, telephoned or applied to an employer; had an interview with an employer for work; answered an advertisement for a job; checked or registered with an employment agency; taken steps to start your own business; advertised or tendered for work; and contacted friends or relatives to find work. The reference period for these steps is the four week period prior to interview.

The data item 'active steps to find work' is not directly referenced in LFS standard products. It is collected in the LFS to help determine if a person is unemployed. To be classified as unemployed a person must be without work, actively looking for work, and available to work. More information can be found in Labour Statistics: Concepts, Sources and Methods, 2013 (cat. no. 6102.0.55.001).




ACTUAL HOURS WORKED

See HOURS ACTUALLY WORKED




AGE

A person’s age at their last birthday at the time they responded to the survey. The civilian population aged 15 years and over is in scope of the Labour Force Survey, however some data items are only available for people aged 15-24 years. Certain characteristics by five or ten year age groups are available in some standard products.

Variable	Products
15 years and over presented in 5 and 10 year age groups up to 65 years and over group	6202.0 Datacube GM1 6291.0.55.001 Table 01 Datacubes LM1, LM5, EM1a, EM3a, EM4a, FM2, 6291.0.55.003 Datacubes EQ12, EQ13
15 years and over presented in 10 year age groups up to 65 years and over group	6291.0.55.001 Datacubes RM1, UM3, NM1 6291.0.55.003 Datacube EQ07a
15 years and over presented in 10 year age groups up to 55 years and over group	6202.0 Table 22
15-24 year olds presented in 5 year age groups	6291.0.55.001 Table 03 Datacube LM3
15-24 year olds	6202.0 Tables 13, 14, 16
15-19 year olds	6202.0 Table 17
15-64 year olds	6202.0 Table 18

AGGREGATE DURATION OF JOB SEARCH

See NUMBER OF WEEKS SEARCHING FOR A JOB




AGGREGATE HOURS WORKED

See MONTHLY HOURS WORKED IN ALL JOBS




AGGREGATE MONTHLY HOURS WORKED

See MONTHLY HOURS WORKED IN ALL JOBS




AGGREGATE WEEKS UNEMPLOYED

See NUMBER OF WEEKS SEARCHING FOR A JOB




ALL JOBS

Employed people may have more than one job. Data items that specify that they relate to all jobs are about all the work that an employed person undertook, not only the work that they undertook in their main job. A person's main job is the job that they usually work the most number of hours.




ATTENDING FULL-TIME EDUCATION

Persons aged 15-24 years enrolled at secondary or high school or enrolled as a full time student at a Technical and Further Education (TAFE) college, university, or other educational institution in the reference week.

See EDUCATIONAL ATTENDANCE FULL-TIME




ATTENDING FULL-TIME TERTIARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Persons aged 15-24 years enrolled full time at a TAFE college, university, or other educational institution in the reference week, except those persons aged 15-19 years who were still attending school.

See EDUCATIONAL ATTENDANCE FULL-TIME




ATTENDING SCHOOL

Persons aged 15-19 years enrolled at secondary or high school in the reference week.

See EDUCATIONAL ATTENDANCE FULL-TIME




AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND STANDARD CLASSIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONS (ANZSCO)

See OCCUPATION





AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (ANZSIC)

See INDUSTRY




AUSTRALIAN STATISTICAL GEOGRAPHY STANDARD (ASGS)

See GEOGRAPHY




AVAILABLE TO WORK

Includes people who were available to work in the reference week, or waiting to start a new job within four weeks from the end of the reference week (and could have started work in the reference week if the job had been available then).

The data item 'available to work' is not directly referenced in LFS standard products. It is collected in the LFS to help determine if a person is unemployed. To be classified as unemployed a person must be without work, taking active steps to find work, and available to work. More information can be found in Labour Statistics: Concepts, Sources and Methods, 2013 (cat. no. 6102.0.55.001).