Gender indicators

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Key economic and social indicators comparing males and females including gender pay gap and life expectancy

Key Indicators

This Gender indicators page is updated twice a year, with gender pay gap indicators from the Average Weekly Earnings (AWE) survey updated in February and August to coincide with the release of AWE. Labour Force Survey indicators are also included in these updates. Other indicators are updated in either February or August. Links on the indicator cards and graphs will take you to the latest data.

Gender pay gap measures

Gender pay gap indicator notes

  1. Based on mean weekly ordinary time earnings of full-time adult employees from AWE. These measures exclude part-time employees and overtime earnings. The commonly cited measure also excludes amounts salary sacrificed. For further information, see Gender pay gap guide.

Data Source: Employee Earnings and Hours (published and unpublished) and Average Weekly Earnings.

  1. Excludes amounts salary sacrificed. 

Work

Work indicator notes

Education

Education indicator notes

  1. Includes Certificates I-IV and not further defined, diplomas, advanced diplomas and associate degrees.
  1. People aged 15-74 who were studying for a non-school qualification.

Health and wellbeing

Health and wellbeing indicator notes

  1. Causes of death data for recent years is preliminary and subject to a revisions process.
  2. Data is by date of registration. Data may not match that published previously by reference year.
  3. See the Data quality section of the Causes of Death, Australia, 2022 methodology for more information.

 

  1. Causes of death data for recent years is preliminary and subject to a revisions process.
  2. Data is by date of registration. Data may not match that published previously by reference year.
  3. See the Data quality section of the Causes of Death, Australia, 2022 methodology for more information on how to interpret the time-series and 2022 data.

Crime

Crime indicator notes

  1. A partner the person lives with or lived with at some point, in a married or de facto relationship.  
  2. The number of males/females who have experienced cohabiting partner violence, emotional abuse, or economic abuse since the age of 15 expressed as a percentage of all males/females aged 18 years and over.

See Partner violence, 2021-22 for definitions.

Work-life balance

Work-life balance indicator notes

Other information

External sources

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