FEBRUARY KEY FIGURES

		Feb 2014	Nov 2013 to Feb 2014	Feb 2013 to Feb 2014
		'000	% change	% change
Trend Estimates
	Private sector	130.9	0.8	-7.0
	Public sector	9.9	-5.4	-13.6
	Private and public sectors	140.8	0.3	-7.5

FEBRUARY KEY POINTS


TREND ESTIMATES

• Total job vacancies in February 2014 were 140,800, an increase of 0.3% from November 2013.
• The number of job vacancies in the private sector was 130,900 in February 2014, an increase of 0.8% from November 2013.
• The number of job vacancies in the public sector was 9,900 in February 2014, a decrease of 5.4% from November 2013.

NOTES


FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
May 2014	26 June 2014
August 2014	25 September 2014

CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

TIME SERIES ESTIMATES

From this issue, the private sector job vacancies series from November 2009 onwards will be seasonally adjusted. This has resulted in revisions to the historical seasonally adjusted series. For further details on seasonally adjusted estimates, refer to paragraphs 33 to 35 in the Explanatory Notes.


ROUNDING

Estimates of percentage change shown in this publication have been calculated using unrounded estimates, and may be different from, but are more accurate than, movements obtained from calculating percentage change using the rounded estimates presented in the Tables and the datacubes on the Downloads tab.


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