6291.0.55.001 - Labour Force, Australia, Detailed - Electronic Delivery, Quarterly, Dec 2005

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 15/12/2005

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NOTE: There have been changes to the processes used to code industry and occupation in the Labour Force Survey. More details are available on this site.

System Requirements
These files are in SuperTABLE format. To use them, you need SuperTABLE on your PC. You can download it free from Space-Time Research at http://www.str.com.au/download/supertable_download.htm (then run the file to install it), or contact your organisation's Information Technology support area. For more information, please see SuperTABLE Help.

File Contents
E03_nov84.srd contains data from November 1984 to May 1994. Data from August 1994 onwards is available in
E03_aug94.srd. Estimates of employment by industry from November 1984 to May 1994 were originally coded to ASIC 84 (Australian Standard Industrial Classification 1984) and were recoded to ANZSIC 93 for time series analysis. As the recoding proportions were based on Industry structure in 1994 for total Australia, data for previous time periods or at more detailed breakdowns should be used with caution.

Data from these two files can be combined in SuperTABLE if needed.

Classifications

Sex	Male, Female
Geographical Area	Capital City/Balance of State
Hours Worked Categories	0, 1-15, 16-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40, 41-44, 45-49, 50-59, 60+
Industry	ANZSIC Division (1-digit)
Month	Every three months (Feb, May, Aug, Nov) from November 1984 to May 1994
Labour Force Status	Employed Full Time, Employed Part Time, Aggregate Hours Worked (Employed Full-Time), Aggregate Hours Worked (Employed Part-Time)

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 (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.

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