FEBRUARY KEY FIGURES

		Feb 2018	Nov 2017 to Feb 2018	Feb 2017 to Feb 2018
		'000	% change	% change
Trend Estimates
	Private sector	201.6	4.4	20.2
	Public sector	19.1	-0.1	4.6
	Private and public sectors	220.8	4.0	18.7

Source(s): Job Vacancies, Australia (cat. no. 6354.0)

FEBRUARY KEY POINTS


TREND ESTIMATES

• Total job vacancies in February 2018 were 220,800, an increase of 4.0% from November 2017.
• The number of job vacancies in the private sector was 201,600 in February 2018, an increase of 4.4% from November 2017.
• The number of job vacancies in the public sector was 19,100 in February 2018, a decrease of 0.1% from November 2017.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
May 2018	28 June 2018
August 2018	27 September 2018

SAMPLE REDESIGN

Survey sample redesigns are undertaken periodically for all ABS business surveys. This is to ensure design parameters are up to date, the survey design is optimal, and estimates are of a high quality. The most recent sample redesign for Job Vacancies was implemented for the February 2018 cycle. While there were some impacts on the estimates resulting from the redesign, the impacts are not considered to be significant. For further information, see paragraph 10 of the Explanatory Notes.


ROUNDING

Estimates of percentage change shown in this release 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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