6222.0 - Job Search Experience, Australia, Jul 2010 
Quality Declaration
Quality Declaration ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 18/01/2011
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EXPLANATORY NOTES
5 Students at boarding schools, patients in hospitals, residents of homes (e.g. retirement homes, homes for people with disabilities), and inmates of prisons are excluded from all supplementary surveys. 6 This supplementary survey was conducted in both urban and rural areas in all states and territories, but excluded people living in Indigenous communities in very remote parts of Australia. 7 The survey only relates to people who were unemployed in July 2010, and people employed in July 2010 who started their current job in the previous 12 months. COVERAGE 8 The estimates in this publication relate to people covered by the survey in July 2010. In the LFS, coverage rules are applied which aim to ensure that each person is associated with only one dwelling, and hence has only one chance of selection in the survey. See Labour Force, Australia (cat. no. 6202.0) for more details. SAMPLE SIZE 9 Supplementary surveys are not always conducted on the full LFS sample. Since August 1994 the sample for supplementary surveys has been restricted to no more than seven-eighths of the LFS sample. 10 The initial sample for the July 2010 LFS consisted of 36,117 private dwelling households and special dwelling units. Of the 28,778 private dwelling households and special dwelling units that remained in the survey after sample loss (e.g. households selected in the survey which had no residents in scope for the LFS, vacant or derelict dwellings and dwellings under construction), approximately 27,667 or 96.1% were fully responding to the Job Search Experience Survey. The number of completed interviews obtained from these private dwellings and special dwelling units (after taking into account scope, coverage and sub-sampling exclusions) was 5,239. RELIABILITY OF THE ESTIMATES 11 Estimates in this publication are subject to sampling and non-sampling errors:
SEASONAL FACTORS 12 The estimates are based on information collected in the survey month and, due to seasonal factors, may not be representative of other months of the year. CLASSIFICATIONS USED 13 Country of birth data are classified according to the Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC), Second Edition (cat. no. 1269.0). 14 Occupation data are classified according to ANZSCO - Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations, First Edition, Revision 1 (cat. no. 1220.0). 15 Industry data are classified according to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), 2006 (cat. no. 1292.0). 16 Educational attainment data are classified according to the Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED) (cat. no. 1272.0). See Appendix 1 for further information. NOTES ON ESTIMATES 17 Employees are classified as 'with paid leave entitlements' if they said 'yes' to either of the following questions:
COMPARABILITY OF TIME SERIES 18 Revisions are made to population benchmarks for the LFS after each five-yearly Census of Population and Housing (Census). Estimates from the 2010 Job Search Experience Survey are based on the population benchmarks that take into account results from the 2006 Census, first published in the February 2009 issue of Labour Force, Australia (cat. no. 6202.0). Labour supplementary surveys conducted from July 2010 include revised population benchmarks that incorporate revised Net Overseas Migration estimates, published in the September 2008 and September 2009 issues of Australian Demographic Statistics (cat. no. 3101.0). For details on population benchmarks, see Labour Force, Australia (cat. no. 6202.0). COMPARABILITY WITH MONTHLY LFS STATISTICS 19 Due to differences in the scope and sample size of this supplementary survey and that of the monthly LFS, the estimation procedure may lead to some small variations between labour force estimates from this survey and those from the LFS. COMPARABILITY WITH PREVIOUS SURVEYS 20 From July 2004, a change has been made to the category 'considered too young or too old by employers' for the data items 'all difficulties in finding work' and 'main difficulty in finding work'. The category has been split into 'considered too young by employers' and 'considered too old by employers'. Data for 'considered too young by employers' is not published separately in all relevant tables, but are available on request. 21 From July 2010, references to the Job Network have been replaced by Job Services Australia. This follows, organisational changes by the Australian Government which were implemented in July 2009. These changes affect the data items, 'All steps taken to find work/attain a job', 'All steps taken to find work', 'Active steps taken to find work', 'Active steps taken to find work and whether has been registered with a Job Services Australia provider', 'Whether has been registered with a Job Services Australia provider', 'All steps taken to attain a job', 'Whether had prior knowledge that current job was available', and 'Role of Job Services Australia in job attainment'. 22 Also from July 2010, categories relating to Centrelink touchscreens have been removed from the data items, 'All steps taken to find work/attain a job', 'All steps taken to find work', 'Active steps taken to find work', 'Active steps taken to find work and whether has been registered with a Job Services Australia provider', 'Whether has been registered with a Job Services Australia provider', 'All steps taken to attain a job', and 'Whether had prior knowledge that current job was available'. PREVIOUS SURVEYS 23 JSE was first conducted in July 2002. Results of similar surveys on the job search experience of unemployed people conducted in July 1984, July 1985, June 1986, July 1988, July 1990, June 1991, and annually from July 1992 to July 2001 were published in various issues of Job Search Experience of Unemployed Persons, Australia (cat. no. 6222.0). Information on people who had started work for an employer for wages or salary during the 12 months up to the end of the reference week was collected in June 1986, and two-yearly from July 1990 to July 2000 and were published in Successful and Unsuccessful Job Search Experience, Australia (cat. no. 6245.0). NEXT SURVEY 24 The ABS plans to conduct this survey again in July 2011. ACKNOWLEDGMENT 25 ABS publications draw extensively on information provided freely by individuals, businesses, governments and other organisations. Their continued cooperation is very much appreciated: without it, the wide range of statistics published by the ABS would not be available. Information received by the ABS is treated in strict confidence as required by the Census and Statistics Act 1905. RELATED PUBLICATIONS 26 ABS publications which may also be of interest include:
27 Current publications and other products released by the ABS are available from the Statistics Page on the ABS website. The ABS also issues a daily Release Advice on the website which details products to be released in the week ahead. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.
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