The Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership Survey (EEBTUM), August 2004, Basic CURF contains LFS data for 61,157 persons and EEBTUM data for a subset of these, employees in main job (25,972 persons). The EEBTUM survey is conducted in August each year as a supplement to the LFS. The data include demographic information such as state of usual residence, age, sex, country of birth, year of arrival in Australia; LFS data include occupation and industry of current job, labour force status, status in employment, full-time or part-time status, hours usually worked in all jobs; and EEBTUM data include weekly earnings of employees, entitlement to paid leave (holiday leave, sick leave, long-service leave, maternity/paternity leave), superannuation coverage and trade union membership. In August 2004, additional information was collected on other benefits such as goods or services, transport, telephone and shares.

This CURF is available on CD-ROM and/or via the ABS Remote Access Data Laboratory.

For more information, see the Labour Force Survey and Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership, Australia - Basic Confidentialised Unit Record File, Technical Paper (cat. no. 6202.0.30.002).