6354.0 - Job Vacancies, Australia, Aug 2003

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 25/09/2003

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Explanatory Notes Glossary Technical Note Data Source	Industry Industry is classified according to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification. For more details refer to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification 1993 (cat. no. 1292.0). Job vacancy A job vacancy is a job available for immediate filling on the survey reference date and for which recruitment action had been taken. Recruitment action includes efforts to fill vacancies by advertising, by factory notices, by notifying public or private employment agencies or trade unions and by contacting, interviewing or selecting applicants already registered with the enterprise or organisation. Excluded are vacancies: for jobs which became vacant on the survey date and were filled that same day for jobs of less than one day’s duration to be filled by persons already hired, or by promotion or transfer of existing employees to be filled by employees returning from paid or unpaid leave or after industrial dispute(s) not available for immediate filling on the survey reference date not available within the particular state or territory to which the return relates for work to be carried out by contractors for which no recruitment action has been taken where a person has been appointed but has not yet commenced duty to be filled by staff from contract labour agencies for jobs available only to persons already employed by the enterprise or organisation. Job vacancy rate The job vacancy rate is calculated by expressing the number of job vacancies as a percentage of the number of employees plus vacancies. Number of employees All wage and salary earners who received pay for any part of the relevant pay period. The relevant pay period is the last pay period ending on or before the survey reference date. All permanent, temporary, casual, managerial and executive employees are included. Part-time and casual employees who may have received pay for only a few hours during the reference period are included. Employees on paid leave and those employees on workers’ compensation who continue to be paid through the employer’s payroll are also included. Casual employees who work on an irregular basis and who were not paid during the relevant pay period, employees on leave without pay, on strike or stood down without pay for the whole of the pay period are excluded. Reference date Reference date for the survey is the third Friday of the middle month of the quarter. The reference date for the current survey is 15 August 2003. Sector Public sector includes all local government authorities and government departments, agencies and authorities created by, or reporting to the Commonwealth Parliament and state/territory parliaments. All remaining employees are classified as private sector. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.