6291.0.55.001 - Labour Force, Australia, Detailed - Electronic Delivery, Monthly, Sep 2006  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 19/10/2006   
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From December 2005, the component datacubes previously provided with datacube lm2_srd are no longer being published. Data previously included in datacubes lm2_aust.srd, lm2_nvq.srd and lm2_oth will continue to be available in datacube lm2.srd. If you have any difficulties downloading this datacube please phone the Labour Force contact officer on (02) 6252 6525.

File Contents

lm2.srd contains data for all States. This is a large file and may take time to download.


Classifications

SexMale, Female
AgeSingle years from 15-24 then 5 year groups to 70+
Geographical AreaCapital City/Balance of State
MonthAll months from February 1978
Labour Force StatusEmployed Full Time, Employed Part Time, Unemployed looking for full-time work, Unemployed looking for part-time work, Not in the Labour Force


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
StandardErrors.xls

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.