Tourism Satellite Accounts: quarterly tourism labour statistics, Australia, experimental estimates

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Experimental estimates of quarterly tourism jobs to help explain the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism activity.

Reference period

December 2022

Released

15/03/2023

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Key statistics

In December quarter 2022, there were 676,400 tourism jobs: This was:

73,100 (12.1%) more jobs compared to the September quarter 2022
200,500 (42.1%) more jobs compared to the December quarter 2021
1 in 23 (4.4%) filled jobs in the economy

Change in number and percentage of jobs, original series
	Dec-22	Quarterly change	Quarterly change (%)	Annual change	Annual change (%)
Tourism jobs	676,400	73,100	12.1	200,500	42.1
Economy-wide jobs	15,219,500	320,600	2.2	591,500	4.0

Filled jobs

All references to "jobs" are referring to "filled jobs" unless otherwise specified. For information on the various measures of jobs (filled job, Labour Account main job and Labour Account secondary job), please refer to the Glossary in Methodology.

Percentage change in tourism jobs, original series
Quarter	Quarterly change (%)	Through the year (a) (%)
Dec-17	3.2	7.7
Mar-18	-1.7	4.7
Jun-18	-0.6	5.1
Sep-18	2.1	3.0
Dec-18	1.4	1.2
Mar-19	-1.6	1.3
Jun-19	-0.8	1.0
Sep-19	4.3	3.3
Dec-19	4.7	6.6
Mar-20	-24.9	-18.6
Jun-20	-36.1	-47.5
Sep-20	9.9	-44.7
Dec-20	2.9	-45.7
Mar-21	1.4	-26.7
Jun-21	-0.4	14.3
Sep-21	-8.5	-4.9
Dec-21	25.1	15.7
Mar-22	15.6	31.8
Jun-22	6.7	41.2
Sep-22	2.7	58.6
Dec-22	12.1	42.1

Percentage change in tourism jobs, original series

["Quarter","Quarterly change","Through the year (a)"]

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(a) Through the year movement is from one quarter to the corresponding quarter in the previous year.

Key COVID-19 dates

2022

January-February: COVID-19 Omicron variant outbreak in various states resulted in tighter restrictions for people located in hotspot locations
15 January: Queensland's state border opened to all domestic travellers, and most COVID-19 restrictions were lifted
21 February: Australia opened its international borders for fully vaccinated non-resident travellers
3 March: Western Australia opened its state border allowing fully vaccinated travellers to enter the state without quarantine
17 April: Overseas travellers no longer needed to provide a negative COVID-19 test before entering Australia
6 July: Federal government removed the need for international visitors to declare their COVID-19 vaccination status.

Tourism industry

Change in number and percentage of jobs by industry, original series
	Dec-22	Quarterly change	Quarterly change (%)	Annual change	Annual change (%)
Accommodation	94,600	7,500	8.6	31,100	49.0
Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services	237,100	24,900	11.7	63,900	36.9
Clubs, pubs, taverns and bars	53,900	6,500	13.7	15,800	41.5
Rail transport	1,700	100	6.3	600	54.5
Road transport and transport equipment rental	6,500	1,100	20.4	2,700	71.1
Air, water and other transport	41,700	1,900	4.8	8,900	27.1
Travel agency and information centre services	36,600	0	0.0	3,900	11.9
Cultural services	10,600	1,100	11.6	1,900	21.8
Casinos and other gambling services	3,500	700	25.0	1,500	75.0
Sports and recreation services	32,000	-1,100	-3.3	9,100	39.7
Retail trade	110,300	23,600	27.2	26,900	32.3
Education and training	29,400	0	0.0	26,100	790.9
All other industries	18,400	6,700	57.3	8,000	76.9

During this quarter, industries with the largest quarterly changes were:

cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services: increase of 24,900 jobs (11.7%)
retail trade: increase of 23,600 (27.2%)
accommodation: increase of 7,500 jobs (8.6%)

Comparing December quarter 2021 with December quarter 2022, industries with the largest changes were:

cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services: increase of 63,900 jobs (36.9%)
accommodation: increase of 31,100 jobs (49.0%)
retail trade: increase of 26,900 jobs (32.3%)
education and training: increase of 26,100 jobs (790.9%)

Status in employment

Change in number and percentage of jobs by status in employment, original series
	Dec-22	Quarterly change	Quarterly change (%)	Annual change	Annual change (%)
Full-time	346,600	49,000	16.5	111,200	47.2
Part-time	329,700	24,000	7.9	89,200	37.1

During this quarter:

full-time jobs increased 16.5% while part-time jobs increased 7.9%

From December quarter 2021 to December quarter 2022:

full-time jobs increased 47.2% while part-time jobs increased 37.1%

Tourism jobs ('000) by status in employment
Quarter	Full-time ('000)	Part-time ('000)
Dec-17	355.5	346.4
Mar-18	361.2	328.9
Jun-18	342.1	344.1
Sep-18	351.6	348.8
Dec-18	362.6	348.0
Mar-19	360.9	338.3
Jun-19	343.6	349.8
Sep-19	361.8	361.5
Dec-19	383.2	374.3
Mar-20	288.4	280.7
Jun-20	195.5	168.4
Sep-20	185.8	214.0
Dec-20	190.5	221.0
Mar-21	200.9	216.4
Jun-21	195.7	220.1
Sep-21	180.5	199.9
Dec-21	235.4	240.5
Mar-22	273.1	277.2
Jun-22	290.2	297.1
Sep-22	297.6	305.7
Dec-22	346.6	329.7

Tourism jobs ('000) by status in employment

["Quarter","Full-time","Part-time"]

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Sex

Change in number and percentage of jobs by sex, original series
	Dec-22	Quarterly change	Quarterly change (%)	Annual change	Annual change (%)
Male	307,700	43,000	16.2	89,300	40.9
Female	368,700	30,100	8.9	111,300	43.2

During this quarter:

jobs filled by men increased 16.2% while jobs filled by women increased 8.9%

From December quarter 2021 to December quarter 2022:

jobs filled by men increased 40.9% while jobs filled by women increased 43.2%

Tourism jobs ('000) by sex
Quarter	Male ('000)	Female ('000)
Dec-17	307.2	394.7
Mar-18	300.8	389.3
Jun-18	307.0	379.2
Sep-18	318.8	381.6
Dec-18	318.8	391.7
Mar-19	313.8	385.4
Jun-19	310.2	383.2
Sep-19	317.6	405.6
Dec-19	332.0	425.5
Mar-20	252.8	316.4
Jun-20	170.8	193.1
Sep-20	187.4	212.4
Dec-20	194.4	217.2
Mar-21	201.8	215.5
Jun-21	194.0	221.8
Sep-21	181.9	198.5
Dec-21	218.4	257.4
Mar-22	245.1	305.1
Jun-22	259.9	327.4
Sep-22	264.7	338.6
Dec-22	307.7	368.7

Tourism jobs ('000) by sex

["Quarter","Male","Female"]

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Sex by status in employment

Change in number and percentage of jobs by sex by status in employment, original series
		Dec-22	Quarterly change	Quarterly change (%)	Annual change	Annual change (%)
Male	Part-time	121,200	13,800	12.8	35,100	40.8
	Full-time	186,500	29,100	18.5	54,200	41.0
Female	Part-time	208,500	10,100	5.1	54,100	35.0
	Full-time	160,200	20,000	14.3	57,200	55.5

During this quarter:

jobs filled by men increased for both full-time (18.5%) and part-time (12.8%)
jobs filled by women increased for both full-time (14.3%) and part-time (5.1%)

From December quarter 2021 to December quarter 2022:

jobs filled by men increased for both full-time (41.0%) and part-time (40.8%)
jobs filled by women increased for both full-time (55.5%) and part-time jobs (35.0%)

Measuring the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism activity

The Australian tourism sector is recovering from the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. This section looks at how tourism has been impacted by comparing estimates of tourism filled jobs at the end of December 2019 with those in the current quarter. The key points are:

Tourism jobs peaked at 757,500 in December 2019, and in December quarter 2022 is now at its highest level (676,400 jobs) since the pandemic started.
This represents -10.7% (-81,100) less tourism jobs compared to 7.1% (1,007,300) more jobs in the whole economy as at the end of this quarter.

Tourism jobs ('000), original series
Quarter	Tourism jobs ('000)	Whole economy ('000)
Dec-17	701.9	13,546.7
Mar-18	690.1	13,543.5
Jun-18	686.3	13,660.6
Sep-18	700.4	13,683.3
Dec-18	710.5	13,967.2
Mar-19	699.2	13,877.2
Jun-19	693.4	13,932.4
Sep-19	723.2	14,017.7
Dec-19	757.5	14,212.2
Mar-20	569.1	14,087.3
Jun-20	363.9	13,236.1
Sep-20	399.8	13,547.7
Dec-20	411.5	14,077.1
Mar-21	417.3	14,127.1
Jun-21	415.8	14,254.1
Sep-21	380.4	13,857.5
Dec-21	475.9	14,628.0
Mar-22	550.2	14,653.3
Jun-22	587.3	14,892.3
Sep-22	603.3	14,898.9
Dec-22	676.4	15,219.5

Tourism jobs ('000), original series

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Recovery in tourism jobs by industry since December quarter 2019 (%)
	Recovery (%)
Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services	99.5
Clubs, pubs, taverns and bars	96.9
Travel agency and information centre services	95.8
Sports and recreation services	95.2
Accommodation	95.2
Retail trade	91.9
Road transport and transport equipment rental	90.3
Cultural services	87.6
Casinos and other gambling services	85.4
Rail transport	85.0
Air, water and other transport	81.8
All other industries	79.7
Education and training	40.3

Recovery in tourism jobs by industry since December quarter 2019 (%)

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The 2021-22 issue of Australian National Accounts: Tourism Satellite Account was released on 8 December 2022. While the employment estimates are based on the same source, differences will occur due to the timing of updates to the source data.

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Key COVID-19 dates

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Sex by status in employment

Measuring the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism activity

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Measuring the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism activity

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