MAY KEY FIGURES

		May 2017	Feb 2017 to May 2017	May 2016 to May 2017
		'000	% change	% change
Trend Estimates
	Private sector	170.5	1.5	8.8
	Public sector	18.7	3.2	13.5
	Private and public sectors	189.2	1.7	9.2

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

MAY KEY POINTS


TREND ESTIMATES

• Total job vacancies in May 2017 were 189,200, an increase of 1.7% from February 2017.
• The number of job vacancies in the private sector was 170,500 in May 2017, an increase of 1.5% from February 2017.
• The number of job vacancies in the public sector was 18,700 in May 2017, an increase of 3.2% from February 2017.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
August 2017	28 September 2017
November 2017	10 January 2018

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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