6291.0.55.003 - Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, Quarterly, Nov 2006

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 19/06/2003

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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.

File Contents
e07_aug86.srd contains data from August 1986 to May 1996. Data from August 1996 onwards is available in e07_aug96.srd.

Data from these two files cannot be combined due to a change in the Occupation classification. Estimates of Occupation in e07_aug86.srd are coded according to a ASCO (First edition) and estimates in e07_aug96.srd are coded according to ASCO (Second edition).

Classifications

Sex	Male, Female
Age	15-19, 20-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65+
Occupation	Occupation Minor Group (2-digit)
Status in Employment	Employee, Employer, Own Account Worker, Contributing Family Worker
Month	Every three months (Feb, May, Aug, Nov) from August 1986 to May 1996
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