NOVEMBER KEY FIGURES

		Nov 2014	Aug 2014 to Nov 2014	Nov 2013 to Nov 2014
		'000	% change	% change
Trend Estimates
	Private sector	137.0	1.0	5.4
	Public sector	12.9	4.1	23.1
	Private and public sectors	149.9	1.3	6.7

NOVEMBER KEY POINTS


TREND ESTIMATES

• Total job vacancies in November 2014 were 149,900, an increase of 1.3% from August 2014.
• The number of job vacancies in the private sector was 137,000 in November 2014, an increase of 1.0% from August 2014.
• The number of job vacancies in the public sector was 12,900 in November 2014, an increase of 4.1% from August 2014.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
February 2015	2 April 2015
May 2015	25 June 2015

CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

Medibank Private Limited was privatised on 25 November 2014. For the purposes of ABS statistics this change from public sector to private sector is effective from December quarter 2014. Any impact on the measurement of change between Job Vacancy statistics for the September and December 2014 quarters, at the Sector and State by Sector levels, is not statistically significant and within current released standard errors for each series.


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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