6238.0 - Retirement and Retirement Intentions, Australia, July 2010 to June 2011 
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Quality Declaration ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 13/12/2011
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EXPLANATORY NOTES
2 For all topics, information on labour force characteristics, education, income and other demographics are also available. In addition to these publications, data from the 2010-11 MPHS will be available to be tabulated via Survey TableBuilder (STB) in early 2012. 3 The publication Labour Force, Australia (cat. no. 6202.0) contains information about survey design, sample redesign, scope, coverage and population benchmarks relevant to the monthly LFS, which also apply to the MPHS. It also contains definitions of demographic and labour force characteristics, and information about telephone interviewing which are relevant to both the monthly LFS and the MPHS. CONCEPTS SOURCES AND METHODS 4 The conceptual framework used in Australia's LFS aligns closely with the standards and guidelines set out in Resolutions of the International Conference of Labour Statisticians. Descriptions of the underlying concepts and structure of Australia's labour force statistics, and the sources and methods used in compiling these estimates, are presented in Labour Statistics: Concepts, Sources and Methods (cat. no. 6102.0.55.001). COLLECTION METHODOLOGY 5 ABS interviewers conducted personal interviews by either telephone or at selected dwellings during the 2010-11 financial year. Each month a sample of dwellings were selected for the MPHS from the responding households in the LFS. In these dwellings, after the LFS had been fully completed for each person, a usual resident aged 15 years and over was selected at random and asked the additional MPHS questions in a personal interview. Information was collected using Computer Assisted Interviewing (CAI), whereby responses are recorded directly onto an electronic questionnaire in a notebook computer. SCOPE 6 The scope of the LFS is restricted to people aged 15 years and over and excludes the following:
7 In addition the 2010-11 MPHS excluded the following:
8 For the Retirement and Retirement Intentions topic, the scope was further restricted to people aged 45 years and over. 9 The 2010-11 MPHS was conducted in both urban and rural areas in all states and territories, but excluded people living in very remote parts of Australia. The exclusion of these people will have only a minor impact on any aggregate estimates that are produced for individual states and territories, except for the Northern Territory where such people account for around 23% of the population. COVERAGE 10 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 11 The initial sample for the MPHS 2010-11 consisted of approximately 19,280 private dwelling households. Of the 16,376 private dwelling households that remained in the survey after sample loss (e.g. households with LFS non-response, no residents in scope for the LFS, vacant or derelict dwellings and dwellings under construction), approximately 80% were fully responding to the MPHS. The number of completed interviews obtained from these private dwelling households (after taking into account scope, coverage and subsampling exclusions) was 6,929 for the Retirement and Retirement Intentions survey. ESTIMATION METHODS 12 Weighting is the process of adjusting results from a sample survey to infer results for the total in scope population. To do this, a 'weight' is allocated to each sample unit, which, for the MPHS, can either be a person or a household. The weight is a value which indicates how many population units are represented by the sample unit. The first step in calculating weights for each unit is to assign an initial weight, which is the inverse of the probability of being selected in the survey. The initial weights are then calibrated to align with independent estimates of the population of interest, referred to as 'benchmarks'. Weights are calibrated against population benchmarks to ensure that the survey estimates conform to the independently estimated distribution of the population rather than the distribution within the sample itself. 13 The survey was benchmarked to the estimated civilian population aged 15 years and over living in private dwellings in each state and territory, excluding the scope exclusions listed under Explanatory Notes 6 to 8. For person estimates, the MPHS was benchmarked to the Estimated Resident Population (ERP) in each state and territory, excluding the ERP living in very remote areas of Australia, at 31 March 2011. The MPHS estimates do not (and are not intended to) match estimates for the total Australian person/household populations obtained from other sources (which may include persons living in very remote parts of Australia). RELIABILITY OF THE ESTIMATES 14 Estimates in this publication are subject to sampling and non-sampling errors:
CLASSIFICATIONS USED 15 Country of birth data are classified according to the Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC), Second Edition, 2008 (cat. no. 1269.0). 16 Occupation data are classified according to the ANZSCO - Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations, First Edition, Revision 1, 2009 (cat. no. 1220.0). 17 Industry data are classified according to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), 2006 (cat. no. 1292.0). 18 Educational attainment data are classified according to the Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED), 2001 (cat. no. 1272.0). COMPARABILITY WITH MONTHLY LFS STATISTICS 19 Due to differences in the scope and sample size of the MPHS and that of LFS, the estimation procedure may lead to some variations between labour force estimates from this survey and those from LFS. For the 2010-11 Retirement and Retirement Intentions topic, this has impacted on estimates of employed persons, with these being slightly higher than those from LFS averaged over the 12 month period. PREVIOUS SURVEYS 20 The Retirement and Retirement Intentions survey was last conducted in the 2008-09 financial year. Results of this survey were published in:
CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE 21 No new content was included in the 2010-11 survey, as it only contained core content. As a result, questions on self assessed health, whether had private health insurance, housing tenure and intentions for a healthy/active retirement that were included in the 2008-09 survey, have been excluded. 22 For a more detailed list of categories available for these items, see data cube Appendix 1 - R&RI 2010-11 Data Items List. 23 High reporting of non-personal income money sources (e.g. partner's income, savings or selling assets) to personal income questions in previous cycles of this survey led to the inclusion of 'all/main sources of funds for meeting living costs' data items in 2008-09 to improve this information. The categories for these items are 'personal income', 'partner's income', 'savings or selling assets' and 'none of the above'. The aim was to determine the main source of funds for meeting day-to-day living expenses (currently and at retirement or expected at retirement). These categories have once again been included for the 2010-11 MPHS. 24 Income data has been presented in Table 3 - Persons aged 45 years and over who have retired from the labour force. Care should be taken in interpreting the data as no imputation has been undertaken for the 'could not be determined' category. 25 'Transition to retirement plans' were collected from employed persons aged 45 years and over, through a sequence of questions about changes they might make to their working arrangements before retiring. Examples include whether they would work part-time, change their employer or change other aspects of their employment such as working more from home or reducing their responsibilities. For those who reported transition plans, the age at which these were to be implemented was also collected (as an exact age or age range). Range responses were included in 'average age intends to implement transition plans' by substituting the low-point of the range into the calculation. NEXT SURVEY 26 The ABS plans to conduct this survey again during the 2012-13 financial year. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 27 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. PRODUCTS AND SERVICES Spreadsheets 28 An electronic version of the tables released in this publication is available on the ABS web site in spreadsheets (cat. no. 6238.0). The spreadsheets present the tables and the relative standard errors (RSEs) for each publication table. Microdata record file 29 A microdata data file will also be available to be tabulated via Survey TableBuilder in early 2012 from the 2010-11 MPHS. This will replace the Confidentialised Unit Record File (CURF) that was accessible through RADL for the 2008-09 MPHS. Further information is available via the ABS Website (see Services, Microdata - CURFs and TableBuilder, About Survey TableBuilder). RELATED PUBLICATIONS 30 ABS publications which may also be of interest include:
31 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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