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LABOUR STATISTICAL OUTPUTS AND ANALYTICAL ARTICLES


OUTPUT

The ABS objectives in dissemination are to ensure widespread availability of information.

To meet the 'public good' obligations of the ABS, the main findings of statistical collections and statistical reports on matters of public interest are made available free of charge to the community via the media. ABS publications are made available free to the general public through the ABS website.

A number of international agencies, including the International Monetary Fund and the International Labour Organization (ILO), have put forward a range of proposals and guidelines for the dissemination of data including: the methodology of their collection and compilation, and evaluation as to their accuracy; relevance to the phenomena measured; and quality of the output. In particular, the ILO at its 1998 International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) endorsed a set of 20 guidelines concerning dissemination practices for labour statistics. The ICLS Guidelines can be found on the ILO website at the following address: http://www.ilo.org/stat/lang--en/index.htm


DISSEMINATION CHANNELS

The ABS website (www.abs.gov.au) is the main channel for disseminating statistics, and provides public access to ABS data of broad interest free of charge. Publications are the prime release medium and are available for download in electronic format, namely PDF files and Excel spreadsheets. Some ABS labour publications are in HTML format only.

In addition to publications, a range of other dissemination media is used in the release of labour statistics. The ABS produces, free of charge, a quick reference information service for basic statistical information, including information on labour statistics. The service operates in response to telephone calls, email, correspondence and personal visits. The ABS also offers information consultancy services on a fee for service basis, for clients requesting more complex information.

Confidentialised Unit Record Files are available for some labour collections. These files contain the responses received for each unit in the survey, with any identifying information removed or modified to ensure that no respondents can be identified from the dataset.

Table Builder, an online tool for creating tables, graphs and maps using ABS microdata, is available for some labour collections. Table Builder is available for users who wish to undertake a more detailed analysis of the data.


LABOUR STATISTICAL OUTPUTS

A list of labour statistical outputs is detailed in Table 35.1 below.

Survey Type	Publication Title	cat. no.	Frequency	Availability
Business Surveys
	Australian Industry	8155.0	Annual	Current
	Average Weekly Earnings, Australia	6302.0	Biannual	Current
	Business Indicators, Australia	5676.0	Quarterly	Current
	Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia	6306.0	Biennial	Current
	Employment and Earnings, Public Sector, Australia	6248.0.55.002	Annual	Current
	Industrial Disputes, Australia	6321.0.55.001	Quarterly	Current
	Job Vacancies, Australia	6354.0	Quarterly	Current
	Labour Costs, Australia	6348.0	Irregular	Current
	Wage Price Index, Australia	6348.0	Quarterly	Current
General Social Surveys
	Census of Population and Housing	2011.0	Five-yearly	Current
	Disability and Labour Force Participation	4433.0.55.006	Irregular	Current
	Voluntary Work, Australia	4441.0	Irregular	Current
Labour Force Surveys
	Labour Force, Australia	6202.0	Monthly	Current
	Labour Force, Australia, Detailed - Electronic Delivery	6291.0.55.001	Monthly	Current
	Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, Quarterly	6291.0.55.003	Quarterly	Current
	Labour Force, Australia: Labour Force Status and Other Characteristics of Families	6224.0.55.001	Annual	Current
Monthly Population Supplementary Surveys (Labour Force Supplementary Surveys)
	Characteristics of Employment, Australia	6333.0	Annual	Current This product replaces the publications: Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership, Australia, Forms of Employment, Australia, Working Time Arrangements and Locations of Work
	Characteristics of Recent Migrants, Australia	6250.0	Irregular	Current This product replaces the publication Labour Force Status and Other Characteristics of Migrants, Australia
	Child Employment, Australia	6211.0	Irregular	Current
	Education and Work, Australia	6227.0	Annual	Current
	Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership, Australia	6310.0	Annual	Ceased This product replaced by Characteristics of Employment, Australia
	Forms of Employment, Australia	6359.0	Annual	Ceased This product replaced by Characteristics of Employment, Australia
	Job Search Experience, Australia	6222.0	Annual	This product replaced by Participation, Job Search and Mobility, Australia
	Labour Force Experience, Australia	6206.0	Biennial	This product replaced by Participation, Job Search and Mobility, Australia
	Labour Mobility, Australia	6209.0	Biennial	This product replaced by Participation, Job Search and Mobility, Australia
	Locations of Work, Australia	6275.0	Irregular	Current
	Multiple Jobholding, Australia	6216.0	Irregular	Current
	Participation, Job Search and Mobility	6226.0	Annual	Current This product replaces Persons Not in the Labour Force, Underemployed Workers and Job Search Experience, Australia and Labour Mobility, Australia
	Persons Not in the Labour Force	6220.0	Annual	This product replaced by Participation, Job Search and Mobility, Australia.
	Persons Not in the Labour Force, Underemployed Workers and Job Search Experience, Australia	6226.0.55.001	One-off (Bridge)	This product replaced by Participation, Job Search and Mobility, Australia. Originally, this product replaced the publications: Persons Not in the Labour Force, Australia, Underemployed Workers, Australia and Job Search Experience, Australia
	Pregnancy and Employment Transitions, Australia	4913.0	Irregular	Current
	Underemployed Workers, Australia	6265.0	Annual	This product replaced by Persons Not in the Labour Force, Underemployed Workers and Job Search Experience, Australia
	Working Time Arrangements, Australia	6324.0	Irregular	This product replaced by Characteristics of Employment. This product replaces the publication Working Arrangements, Australia
Multipurpose Household Surveys
	Barriers and Incentives to Labour Force Participation, Australia	6239.0	Biennial	Current
	Qualification and Works	4235.0	Irregular	Current
	Retirement and Retirement Intentions, Australia	6238.0	Biennial	Current
	Work-Related Injuries, Australia	6324.0	Irregular	Current