Aggregate monthly hours worked increased to 1,528.3 million hours
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES (MONTHLY CHANGE)
Employment increased 31,200 (0.3%) to 10,868,200.
Full-time employment increased 30,800 to 7,627,400 and part-time
employment increased slightly, up 300, to 3,240,700.
Unemployment decreased 13,300 to 653,100. The
number of persons looking for full-time work decreased 11,100 to
486,400 and the number of persons looking for part-time work decreased
2,100 to 166,700.
Unemployment rate decreased 0.1 pt to 5.7%.
The male unemployment rate decreased 0.1 pt to 5.8% and the female
unemployment rate decreased 0.1 pt to 5.5%.
Participation rate decreased slightly to 65.2%.
Aggregate monthly hours worked increased 13.4 million hours (0.9%) to 1,536.3 million hours.
LABOUR UNDERUTILISATION (QUARTERLY CHANGE)
Trend estimates: Labour Force underutilisation rate constant at 13.6%
Seasonally adjusted estimates: Labour Force
underutilisation rate decreased 0.1 pt to 13.5%. The male labour force
underutilisation rate decreased 0.1 pt to 11.9% and the female labour
force underutilisation rate decreased 0.3 pts to 15.3%.
NOTES
FORTHCOMING ISSUES
ISSUE
Release Date
December 2009
14 January 2010
January 2010
11 February 2010
February 2010
11 March 2010
March 2010
8 April 2010
April 2010
13 May 2010
May 2010
10 June 2010
CHANGES THIS MONTH
As foreshadowed in recent editions of Labour Force, Australia
(cat. no. 6202.0) the re-instatement of the Labour Force Survey (LFS)
sample commenced in September 2009 and will continue until December
2009. Detailed information about the sample reinstatement is available
in Information Paper: Labour force Survey Sample Design, Nov 2007 (Third edition) (cat. no. 6269.0).
REVISION TO POPULATION BENCHMARKS
The ABS will revise Labour Force Survey population benchmarks from
November 2007 in mid 2010. The revisions will impact on level
estimates, such as the number of persons employed and unemployed, but
will have negligible impact on movement estimates or estimates of
rates, such as the unemployment rate. Further information is available
in October 2009 issue of Labour Force, Australia (cat. no. 6202.0).
LABOUR FORCE SURVEY STANDARD PRODUCTS AND DATA ITEM GUIDE (cat. no. 6103.0)
On 4 December 2009 the ABS released its Labour Force Survey Standard Products and Data Item Guide (cat.
no. 6103.0). This product itemises and cross references all data
contained within the Labour Force Survey standard products, with an
explanation of each data item, including relevant formats, and product
location.
SAMPLING ERROR
The estimates in this publication are based on a sample survey.
Therefore, published estimates and the movements derived from them are
subject to sampling variability. Standard errors give a measure of this
variability, see pages 33 and 34. The interval bounded by two standard
errors is the 95% confidence interval, which provides a way of looking
at the variability inherent in estimates. This represents a 95% chance
that the true value of the estimate lies within that interval.
Movements in seasonally adjusted series between October 2009 and November 2009
