Labour Force, Australia, Detailed

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Detailed monthly and quarterly Labour Force Survey data, including hours, regions, families, job search, job duration, casual, industry and occupation

Reference period
May 2025
Released
26/06/2025
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    Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, June 2025
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    Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, July 2025
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    Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, August 2025
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About this release

Data from the monthly Labour Force Survey are released in two stages:

  1. Labour Force, Australia - which contains headline estimates of employment, unemployment, underemployment, participation and hours worked
  2. Labour Force, Australia, Detailed - which contains detailed data not included in the first release

This second release of Labour Force Survey data includes the latest detailed monthly and quarterly data. Some information, including industry, occupation, job duration, and retrenchment, is only available for February, May, August and November.

As a result, in the 'non-quarter' months, the quarterly spreadsheets and datacubes have a different reference period. For example, the May issue contains May monthly and May quarterly data, while the July issue will contain July monthly and May quarterly data.

For more information on the data contained in the first and second releases, see the Survey output section of the Labour Force Survey Methodology page.

Using regional labour force estimates

Labour force status

Monthly (May)

Data files

Quarterly (May)

Data files

Industry and Occupation

The Labour Account is the best source of quarterly industry and sector data. For information on how it provides a better allocation of employed people and their hours based on the characteristics of their employing business, see Industry employment guide

The ABS is currently reviewing the usefulness of the market and non-market sector data in Table 21 of the headline Labour Force release.

Quarterly (May)

Data files

Hours worked

Monthly (May)

Data files

Unemployment

Monthly (May)

Data files

Quarterly (May)

Data files

Underemployment and underutilisation

Quarterly (May)

Data files

Status in employment

Monthly (May)

Data files

Quarterly (May)

Data files

Modelled labour market regions (SA4)

MRM1 - Modelled estimates of labour force status, by SA4 (ASGS) (May)

The June 2025 issue of Labour Force, Australia, Detailed (to be released on 24 July) will include new modelled age and sex breakdowns of unemployment, employment and NILF estimates at the SA4 level. These will initially cover periods from at least January 2020 onwards for employment and July 2016 onwards for unemployment, with plans to extend the series in the future. These modelled age and sex estimates will be included in a new spreadsheet in the Modelled labour market regions (SA4) section. There will be no changes to the existing modelled regional labour force spreadsheet (MRM1).

The ABS recommends using the modelled estimates in MRM1 over the direct survey estimates whenever possible in reporting on employment and unemployment rates for regional labour markets.

Labour market regions (SA4)

Monthly (May)

Data files

Quarterly (May)

Data files

Relationship in household

Monthly (May)

Data files

Current and expected job duration

Quarterly (May)

Data files

Retrenchment

Quarterly (May)

Data files

Not in the labour force

Monthly (May)

Data files

All data downloads

All monthly time series spreadsheets

All monthly pivot tables

All quarterly time series spreadsheets

All quarterly pivot tables

Previous catalogue number

This release previously used catalogue numbers:

Detailed Labour Force data were also previously published in:

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