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

September 2022

Released

21/12/2022

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Key statistics

In September quarter 2022, there were 604,200 tourism jobs: This was:

18,600 (3.2%) more jobs compared to the June quarter 2022
223,500 (58.7%) more jobs compared to the September quarter 2021
1 in 24 (4.1%) filled jobs in the economy

Change in number and percentage of jobs, original series
	Sep-22	Quarterly change	Quarterly change (%)	Annual change	Annual change (%)
Tourism jobs	604,200	18,600	3.2	223,500	58.7
Economy-wide jobs	14,795,400	-51,800	-0.3	923,700	6.7

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) (%)
Sep-17	4.2	7.0
Dec-17	3.2	7.8
Mar-18	-1.7	4.8
Jun-18	-0.5	5.2
Sep-18	2.1	3.0
Dec-18	1.5	1.3
Mar-19	-1.6	1.4
Jun-19	-0.9	1.0
Sep-19	4.3	3.2
Dec-19	4.8	6.6
Mar-20	-24.9	-18.6
Jun-20	-36.0	-47.5
Sep-20	9.9	-44.7
Dec-20	2.9	-45.6
Mar-21	1.4	-26.6
Jun-21	-0.4	14.3
Sep-21	-8.6	-4.9
Dec-21	25.2	15.7
Mar-22	15.6	31.8
Jun-22	6.3	40.6
Sep-22	3.2	58.7

Percentage change in tourism jobs, original series

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

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(a) Annual movement 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 need for international visitors to declare their COVID-19 vaccination status.

Tourism industry

Change in number and percentage of jobs by industry, original series
	Sep-22	Quarterly change	Quarterly change (%)	Annual change	Annual change (%)
Accommodation	89,400	-1,400	-1.5	37,600	72.6
Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services	213,600	8,400	4.1	78,900	58.6
Clubs, pubs, taverns and bars	47,700	5,200	12.2	17,600	58.5
Rail transport	1,600	-100	-5.9	500	45.5
Road transport and transport equipment rental	5,300	200	3.9	2,000	60.6
Air, water and other transport	39,000	500	1.3	11,300	40.8
Travel agency and information centre services	36,100	5,700	18.8	13,100	57.0
Cultural services	9,300	-600	-6.1	2,900	45.3
Casinos and other gambling services	2,700	0	0.0	1,000	58.8
Sports and recreation services	33,200	200	0.6	19,000	133.8
Retail trade	86,600	700	0.8	12,900	17.5
Education and training	28,100	0	0.0	24,900	778.1
All other industries	11,600	-100	-0.9	1,900	19.6

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

cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services: increase of 8,400 jobs (4.1%)
travel agency and information centre services: increase of 5,700 (18.8%)
clubs, pubs, taverns and bars: increase of 5,200 jobs (12.2%)
accommodation: decrease of 1,400 jobs (-1.5%)

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

cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services: increase of 78,900 jobs (58.6%)
accommodation: increase of 37,600 jobs (72.6%)
education and training: increase of 24,900 jobs (up 778.1% from 3,200 jobs)
sports and recreation services: increase of 19,000 jobs (133.8%)
clubs, pubs, taverns and bars: increase of 17,600 jobs (58.5%)

Status in employment

Change in number and percentage of jobs by status in employment, original series
	Sep-22	Quarterly change	Quarterly change (%)	Annual change	Annual change (%)
Full-time	298,900	7,500	2.6	118,100	65.3
Part-time	305,300	11,100	3.8	105,400	52.7

During this quarter:

full-time jobs increased 2.6% while part-time jobs increased 3.8%

Between September quarter 2021 and September quarter 2022:

full-time jobs increased 65.3% while part-time jobs increased 52.7%

Tourism jobs ('000) by status in employment
Quarter	Full-time ('000)	Part-time ('000)
Sep-17	348.3	331.9
Dec-17	355.6	346.5
Mar-18	361.3	328.9
Jun-18	342.3	344.3
Sep-18	351.6	349.1
Dec-18	362.7	348.3
Mar-19	361.2	338.4
Jun-19	343.8	349.8
Sep-19	362.1	361.5
Dec-19	383.8	374.2
Mar-20	288.7	280.9
Jun-20	195.8	168.5
Sep-20	186.1	214.3
Dec-20	190.7	221.4
Mar-21	201.7	216.3
Jun-21	196.0	220.4
Sep-21	180.8	199.9
Dec-21	235.8	240.9
Mar-22	274.2	276.9
Jun-22	291.4	294.2
Sep-22	298.9	305.3

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
	Sep-22	Quarterly change	Quarterly change (%)	Annual change	Annual change (%)
Male	264,100	5,100	2.0	81,900	45.0
Female	340,100	13,500	4.1	141,600	71.3

During this quarter:

jobs filled by females increased 4.1% while jobs filled by males increased 2.0%

From September quarter 2021 to September quarter 2022:

jobs filled by females increased 71.3% while jobs filled by males increased 45.0%

Tourism jobs ('000) by sex
Quarter	Male ('000)	Female ('000)
Sep-17	299.7	380.5
Dec-17	307.2	394.9
Mar-18	300.7	389.6
Jun-18	307.2	379.4
Sep-18	318.9	381.9
Dec-18	318.8	392.2
Mar-19	313.9	385.7
Jun-19	310.1	383.5
Sep-19	317.4	406.1
Dec-19	332.1	425.9
Mar-20	252.7	316.9
Jun-20	171.0	193.3
Sep-20	187.4	213.0
Dec-20	194.3	217.7
Mar-21	202.0	216.0
Jun-21	194.2	222.2
Sep-21	182.2	198.5
Dec-21	219.0	257.8
Mar-22	245.6	305.6
Jun-22	259.0	326.6
Sep-22	264.1	340.1

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
		Sep-22	Quarterly change	Quarterly change (%)	Annual change	Annual change (%)
Male	Part-time	106,800	1,700	1.6	32,200	43.2
	Full-time	157,300	3,400	2.2	49,700	46.2
Female	Part-time	198,500	9,300	4.9	73,200	58.4
	Full-time	141,600	4,200	3.1	68,400	93.4

During this quarter:

jobs filled by females increased for both full-time (3.1%) and part-time (4.9%)
jobs filled by males increased for both full-time (2.2%) and part-time (1.6%)

From September quarter 2021 to September quarter 2022:

jobs filled by females increased for both full-time (93.4%) and part-time (58.4%)
jobs filled by males increased for both full-time (46.2%) and part-time jobs (43.2%)

Measuring the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism activity

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an impact on the Australian tourism sector. This section looks at how tourism has been impacted over the period by comparing estimates of tourism jobs at the end of December quarter 2019 with those in the current quarter. The key points are:

Tourism jobs peaked at 758,000 in December quarter 2019, and in September quarter 2022 is now at its highest level (604,200) since the pandemic started.
This represents -20.3% (-153,800) less tourism jobs than the December quarter 2019 compared to an increase of 4.0% (573,000) more jobs in the whole economy.

Tourism jobs ('000), original series
Quarter	Tourism jobs ('000)	Whole economy
Sep-17	680.2	13,355.7
Dec-17	702.1	13,550.6
Mar-18	690.2	13,547.1
Jun-18	686.6	13,666.2
Sep-18	700.8	13,689
Dec-18	711.1	13,976.6
Mar-19	699.6	13,885.8
Jun-19	693.6	13,938
Sep-19	723.5	14,023.9
Dec-19	758	14,222.4
Mar-20	569.6	14,099
Jun-20	364.3	13,247.8
Sep-20	400.3	13,563.6
Dec-20	412.1	14,096.5
Mar-21	418	14,150.1
Jun-21	416.4	14,277.1
Sep-21	380.7	13,871.7
Dec-21	476.8	14,654.6
Mar-22	551.1	14,675.6
Jun-22	585.6	14,847.2
Sep-22	604.2	14,795.4

Tourism jobs ('000), original series

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Change in tourism jobs ('000) by industry since December quarter 2019
	Change ('000)
Rail transport	-0.4
Sports and recreation services	-0.4
Casinos and other gambling services	-1.4
Road transport and transport equipment rental	-1.9
Travel agency and information centre services	-2.1
Cultural services	-2.8
Clubs, pubs, taverns and bars	-8.0
Accommodation	-10.1
All other industries	-11.5
Air, water and other transport	-12.1
Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services	-24.9
Retail trade	-33.5
Education and training	-44.8

Change in tourism jobs ('000) 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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