6291.0.55.001 - Labour Force, Selected Summary Tables, Australia, Monthly, Oct 2005  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 17/11/2005   
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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
em2.srd contains data for all States. This is a large file and may take time to download.
em2_nvq.srd contains data for NSW, Vic & Qld
em2_oth.srd contains data for all other States
em2_aust.srd contains data for Australia total. These files have been split to reduce download time. They can be combined in SuperTABLE if needed.

Classifications

SexMale, Female
Age15-19, 20-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65+
Geographical AreaState
Hours Worked Categories0, 1-15, 16-29, 30-34
Main Reason worked <35 Hours CategoriesLeave, holiday, flextime, personal reasons; own illness or injury; bad weather, plant breakdown;
began or left job in reference week; stood down, on short time, insufficient work; shift work,
standard work arrangements; other reasons
MonthAll months from February 1978
Labour Force StatusEmployed Full Time, Aggregate Hours Worked (Employed Full-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.

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