Managing Caring Responsibilities and Paid Employment, New South Wales

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    NAME OF ORGANISATION
    Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

    OVERVIEW

    The Managing Caring and Paid Employment survey is a one-off survey conducted in October 2000 as a supplement to the Monthly Population Survey (MPS). The survey provides information on the relationship between peoples' caring responsibilities and their work situation.

    The survey covers people aged 15 years and over living in private dwellings in NSW, excluding people living in sparsely settled areas.

    Topics covered include: type of work arrangements employees used to care for another person in the last 6 months; whether additional work arrangements were desired; whether caring responsibilities influenced a person's decision to become self employed; whether caring responsibilities were a reason people were not seeking paid work; and whether women aged 18 - 54 resigned from a job because sufficient maternity leave was not available.

    PURPOSE

    The purpose of the survey is to investigate the labour force experience of those who currently have or have had caring responsibilities, including peoples' use of maternity leave and other working arrangements. This information will assist government departments to develop policies for the workplace.

    The major users of the survey results are the NSW Department of Industrial Relations and the Department for Women. Data is also expected to be used by the Department of Community Services, Queensland Department of Employment,Training and Industrial Relations, Queensland Family and Community Centre and the Working Women's Centre.

    SCOPE

    Scope: NSW civilian population aged 18 and over (in private dwellings only)

    Coverage: Standard Labour Force coverage rules.

    The following are exclusions on coverage for the labour force:

    • members of the permanent defence forces;
    • certain diplomatic personnel of overseas governments, customarily excluded from census and estimated populations;
    • overseas residents in Australia; and
    • members of non-Australian defence forces (and their dependants) stationed in Australia.

    Information was collected by either face-to-face or telephone interview from one responsible adult per household. This survey was conducted using seven-eighths of the full sample of private dwellings in New South Wales that were included in the MPS.

    DATA DETAIL

    Conceptual framework

    The collection was conducted as a supplement to the ABS Monthly Population Survey (MPS) in October 2000.

    Information was collected from households and persons living in private dwellings throughout New South Wales. As well as the standard MPS output, information collected includes:

    Caring

    • Whether cared for someone
    • Frequency of care

    Employment

    • Employment status
    • Whether not looking for work
    • Number of hours worked
    • Whether had more than one job
    • Sector of employment

    Working Arrangements

    • Whether used working arrangements to care for another person
    • Whether wanted to make more use of working arrangements to care for another person
    • Reasons could not make more use of working arrangements to care for another person
    • Changes made to care for another person
    • Whether wanted to make any job changes but could not because of caring responsibilities
    • Whether became self employed to make it easier to care for another person
    • Whether this was the main reason became self employed
    • Whether main reason not looking for work is because of caring responsibilities

    Maternity Leave

    • Whether have taken maternity leave in the last five years
    • Whether more than four weeks unpaid maternity leave was taken
    • Sources of income during unpaid maternity leave
    • Main source of income during unpaid maternity leave
    • Whether resigned from a job in the last five years because sufficient maternity leave was not available

    Main outputs

    Publication : Managing Caring Responsibilities and Paid Employment, New South Wales (ABS Cat No. 4903.1)

    Classifications

    Standard Classifications were used for Labour Force variables, ie:

    • Sex - male, female
    • Region - Formed by aggregation of standard statistical divisions. Minimum level in publication - Sydney, Balance of NSW
    • Age - Formed by aggregation of standard 5 year age groupings. Minimum level in publication - 15-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-64, 65+
    • Labour Force Status - Employed, Unemployed, Not in the labour force
    • Marital Status - Married, Not married
    • Gross Income (annual) - Up to $20,000, $20,001 and over, Don't know
    • Educational attainment - Bachelor degree or higher, Trade qualification, Certificate or diploma, Secondary school education, Other
    • Language spoken at home - English only, Italian, Greek, Arabic/Lebanese, Chinese, Spanish, Other

    Other concepts (summary)

    Not Applicable

    GEOGRAPHIC DETAIL
    New South Wales
    Major Statistical Region
    Part of State Metropolitan
    Part of State Extra-Metropolitan

    Comments and/or Other Regions

    Not applicable

    COLLECTION FREQUENCY
    Once Only

    Frequency comments

    It is not planned to run another Managing Caring Responsibilities and Paid Employment survey.

    COLLECTION HISTORY

    One-off state supplementary survey.

    DATA AVAILABILITY
    Yes

    Data availability comments

    Data is available in the publication Managing Caring Responsibilities and Paid Employment, New South Wales (ABS Cat No. 4903.1). Customised data services are available to clients on request.


    DATE OF LAST UPDATE FOR THIS DOCUMENT
    08/05/2002 05:48 PM