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QUALITY DECLARATION - SUMMARY
Due to problems experienced with the collection of education data for the 2014 Job Search Experience component of this survey, this data is not available.
Education questions will not be asked in the new Participation, Job Search and Mobility survey (cat. no. 6226.0), instead have been collected as part of the LFS from July 2014. TIMELINESS Statistics in this release are compiled from the Persons Not In the Labour Force (PNILF), Underemployed Workers (UEW) and Job Search Experience (JSE) survey that was conducted throughout Australia in February 2014 as a supplement to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) monthly Labour Force Survey (LFS). Care should be taken when comparing the estimates for PNILF, UEW and JSE with previous years as PNILF and UEW were previously collected in September, and JSE was previously collected in July. There is potential seasonal variations in the experiences of some of these groups. ACCURACY Estimates from this publication are subject to sampling and non-sampling errors. Relative standard error (RSE) is a measure of the size of the sampling error affecting and estimate, i.e. the error introduced by basing estimates on a sample of the population rather than the full population. Non-sampling errors are inaccuracies that occur due to imperfections in reporting by respondents and interviewers, and errors made in coding and processing data. This publication was designed primarily to provide estimates at the Australia level. Broad estimates are available for state/territory and/or capital city/balance. Users should exercise caution when using estimates at this level because of the presence of high sampling errors. RSEs are available for estimates in the Technical Note of the publication. There is some overlap in the populations - some people will go through UEW and JSE (employed and worked less than 35 hours in the reference week). People who are not in the labour force will only go through PNILF, while unemployed people, and employed people who usually work 35 hours or more per week, and were not underemployed in the reference week, will only go through JSE. Care should be taken when comparing the estimates for PNILF, UEW and JSE with previous years as PNILF and UEW were previously collected in September, and JSE was previously collected in July. There is potential seasonal variations in the experiences of some of these groups. COHERENCE The ABS has combined the seven regular labour supplementary surveys into two surveys - the Participation, Job Search and Mobility (PJSM) survey conducted in February each year from 2015 and the Characteristics of Employees (COE) survey conducted each August from 2014. This survey is an interim collection combining three of the four surveys that form the PJSM survey that were not previously collected in February to provide a bridge to the fully combined PJSM survey. The fourth survey included in the PJSM survey is Labour Mobility which was last run in February 2013. The PJSM survey will provide information on unemployment, underemployment, labour force participation, job change and job search in the Australian labour market. The new PJSM supplementary survey integrates key elements of the Labour Mobility, Job Search Experience (JSE), Underemployed Workers (UEW) and Persons Not in the Labour Force (PNILF) surveys. The Labour Mobility survey was run for the last time in February 2013 and the other three surveys were run for the last time in their traditional form in February 2014 before being integrated in February 2015. PJSM will describe some of the key features and labour market experiences of the economically active population as well as those not in the labour force, and provide insight into:
INTERPRETABILITY This publication contains tables with footnoted data to aid interpretation of the results of the survey. Detailed Explanatory Notes, a Technical Note and a Glossary are also included providing information on the terminology, classifications and other technical aspects associated with these statistics. ACCESSIBILITY Persons Not In the Labour Force, Underemployed Workers and Job Search Experience, Australia (cat. no. 6226.0.55.001) is released electronically via the ABS website as tables in spreadsheet format. Additional data may be available on request (subject to data quality). Full details of data items for this survey are available from the Downloads tabs in Excel spreadsheets, as Data Cube 1 - PNILF 2014 Data Items List, Data Cube 2 - UEW 2014 Data Items List and Data Cube 3 - JSE 2014 Data Items List. Note that detailed data can be subject to high relative standard errors, and in some cases, may result in data being confidentialised. For further information about these or related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Centre on 1300 135 070 or contact Labour Force and Supplementary Survey Section on Canberra (02) 6252 7206. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.
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