6291.0.55.001 - Labour Force, Australia, Detailed - Electronic Delivery, Monthly, Apr 2006

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 18/05/2006

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From December 2005, the component datacubes previously provided with datacube um1_srd are no longer being published. Data previously included in datacubes um1_aust.srd, um1_nvq.srd and um1_oth will continue to be available in datacube um1.srd. If you have any difficulties downloading this datacube please phone the Labour Force contact officer on (02) 6252 6525.

File Contents
um1_srd contains data for all States. This is a large file and may take time to download.

Classifications

Sex	Male, Female
Geographical Area	State
Age	15-19, 20-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65+
Duration of unemployment since last full-time job categories	Under 4 weeks, 4 under 13 weeks, 13 and under 26 weeks, 26 and under 52 weeks, 52 and under 104 weeks, 104 weeks and over
Month	All months since February 1978
Labour Force Status	Unemployed looking for full-time work, Unemployed looking for part-time work, Aggregate weeks Unemployed since last full-time job

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.