6354.0 - Job Vacancies, Australia, Aug 2018 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 27/09/2018   
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AUGUST KEY FIGURES

Aug 2018
May 2018 to Aug 2018
Aug 2017 to Aug 2018
'000
% change
% change

Trend Estimates
Private sector
220.0
3.4
20.3
Public sector
20.9
3.3
9.5
Private and public sectors
240.9
3.4
19.3

Graph Image for Job Vacancies, Total and Private sector- Trend


AUGUST KEY POINTS


TREND ESTIMATES
  • Total job vacancies in August 2018 were 240,900, an increase of 3.4% from May 2018.
  • The number of job vacancies in the private sector was 220,000 in August 2018, an increase of 3.4% from May 2018.
  • The number of job vacancies in the public sector was 20,900 in August 2018, an increase of 3.3% from May 2018.


NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER) Release Date
November 2018 9 January 2019
February 2019 28 March 2019



ROUNDING

Estimates of percentage change shown in this release have been calculated using unrounded estimates, and may be different from, but are more accurate than, movements obtained from calculating percentage change using the rounded estimates presented in the Tables and the datacubes on the Downloads tab.


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