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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: Data Cube: 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

Trade union members in their main job

Population 8

Trade union members

Population 9

Independent contractors

Population 10

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

Population 11

Multiple job holders

Population 12

Employees in second job

Population 13

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

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