6291.0.55.001 - Labour Force, Australia, Detailed - Electronic Delivery, Monthly, May 2006  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 15/06/2006   
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File Contents
FM4.srd contains data for Australia.

Classifications

SexMale, Female
Duration of UnemploymentUnder 4 weeks, 4 and under 13 weeks, 13 and under 26 weeks, 26 and under 52 weeks, 52 and under 104 weeks, 104 and under 3 years, 3 years and under 4 years, 4 years and under 5 years, 5 years and over
MonthAll months from April 2001
Labour Force StatusUnemployed looking for full-time work, Unemployed looking for part-time work, Aggregate weeks Unemployed
Relationship in HouseholdHusband, wife or partner; Lone parent; (the presence of dependants, children under 15, dependent students and other children is also indicated); Dependant student; Non-dependant child; Other family person; Non-family member (whether non-family member is a lone person or not living alone); Usual resident of private dwelling where relationship was not determined ; Visitors to private dwellings; Persons enumerated in non-private dwellings.

Standard Errors
Estimates from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) are based on information collected from people in a sample of dwellings, rather than the entire population. Hence the estimates produced may differ from those that would have been produced if the entire population had been included in the survey. The most common measure of the likely difference (or 'sampling error') is the
standard error (SE).New models for calculating standard errors for these estimates were introduced in August 2005 and apply to estimates from the LFS from November 2002 onwards.

The estimates in this data file are from a sample survey and some estimates may be subject to sampling variability too high for most practical purposes. To annotate an item with a relative standard error of 25% or more, in SuperTABLE, right click in the centre of the table, select annotate cells - standard annotations, and select 'Annotate RSE cut-off values'. See the SuperTABLE reference manual for more information (available from Space-Time Research - see link above).

Additional information on how standard errors for LFS estimates are produced is available in the paper
Labour Force Survey Standard Errors, 2005



Explanatory Information
Explanatory Information about the Labour Force Survey and associated products, including a glossary of terms used and links to related publications, can be found at Explanatory Notes from 6202.0 (cat. no. 6298.0). The attached document (free download) also provides the tables to allow the annotation of historical estimates with a standard error of 25% or more.