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APPENDIX POPULATIONS

DATA AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

The ABS has a range of data available on request from the Characteristics of Employment Survey. This section lists the populations which are used in this release. Full details of the data items are available on the ABS website in an Excel spreadsheet, under the Downloads tab: Datacube: Populations and Data items list.

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Population 1

Employed persons

Population 2

Employees in main job

Population 3

Employees and Owner managers of incorporated enterprises (OMIEs) in main job

Population 4

Owner managers of incorporated enterprises (OMIEs) in main job

Population 5

Owner managers of unincorporated enterprises (OMUEs) in main job

Population 6

Employed persons who preferred to work more hours than usually worked

Population 7

Independent contractors

Population 8

Multiple job holders

Population 9

Employees in second job

Population 10

Employees and Owner managers of incorporated enterprises (OMIEs) in second job

Population 11

Trade union members in their main job

Population 12

Trade union members

Population 13

Persons who found their job through a labour hire firm/employment agency

Data items			Population
1		State or territory of usual residence	All
2		Region of usual residence (SA4)	All
3		Sex	All
4		Social marital status	All
5		Relationship in household	All
6		Country of birth	All
7		Country of birth and elapsed years since arrival in Australia	All
8		Age group (years)	All
9		Number of dependents aged 15 to 24 years	All
10		Number of dependents aged 0 to 15 years	All
11		Number of dependents aged 0 to 24 years	All
12		Whether currently studying full-time or part-time	All
13		Level of highest educational attainment	All
14		Level of highest non-school qualification	All
15		Highest year of school completed	All
16		Labour force status	All
17		Status of employment in main job	All
18		Whether held more than one job	All
19		Number of jobs or businesses held last week (held concurrently)	All
20		Main reason for absence from work	All
21		Hours actually worked in main job	All
22		Hours actually worked in all jobs	All
23		Hours usually worked in main job	All
24		Hours usually worked in all jobs	All
25		Full-time or part-time status in all jobs	All
26		Full-time or part-time status in main job	All
27		Underemployment status	All
28		Reason worked less hours than usually worked	All
29		Preferred total number of weekly hours	6
30		Preferred number of extra weekly hours	6
31		Whether available to start work within the reference week with more hours	All
32		Whether prefer and available within the next 4 weeks for more full-time or part-time hours	All
33		Continuous duration with current employer/business	All
34		Expected future duration with current employer/business	All
35		Reason expected future duration with current employer/business less than 12 months	All
36		Sector of main job	All
37		Occupation of main job	All
38		Industry of main job	All
39		Whether entitled to paid holiday leave	2
40		Whether entitled to paid sick leave	2
41		Whether had paid leave entitlements	2
42		Whether retrenched from any job in the previous 3 months	All
43		Weekly earnings in main job	All
44		Weekly earnings in second job	9–10
45		Weekly earnings in all jobs	All
46		Hours paid for in main job	All
47		Hours paid for in second job	9–10
48		Hourly earnings in main job	All
49		Hourly earnings in second job	9–10
50		Frequency of pay in main job	All
51		Whether employment had a set completion date/event in main job	2
52		Time until set employment completion date/event in main job	2
53		Length of fixed term contract in main job	2
54		Whether considered to be an independent contractor	All
55		Trade union membership	All
56		Duration (length) of current trade union membership	All
57		Previous trade union membership	All
58		Whether had more than one active contract in reference week	7
59		Whether usually able to work on more than one active contract	7
60		Whether able to (sub)contract own work	7
61		Whether had authority over own working procedures	7
62		Whether currently registered with a labour hire firm/employment agency	All
63		Whether registered with a labour hire firm/employment agency in the last 12 months	All
64		Whether found current job through a labour hire firm/employment agency	13
65		Whether paid by a labour hire firm/employment agency	13
66		Whether earnings/income varied from one pay period to the next in main job	All
67		Whether guaranteed a minimum number of hours each week in main job	2-4
68		Whether usually worked the same number of hours each week in main job	All
69		Whether considered job to be casual in main job	2
70		Status of employment in second job	9-10