EMPLOYED PERSONS BY INDUSTRY

The Employed Persons by Industry table has been re-based to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification, 2006 (ANZSIC06) (cat. no. 1292.0) and the commentary in this section is based on the new classification. To allow bridging of time series, the Employed Persons by Industry table based on ANZSIC93 has been retained for this issue, but will not be included in future issues.

In August quarter 2008, the largest proportion of persons employed in Melbourne MSR were in the Manufacturing industry (12.2%) followed by Retail Trade (10.4%) and Health Care and Social Assistance (9.7%) while in Balance of Victoria MSR, the largest proportion of persons were employed in the Health Care and Social Assistance industry (12.7%) followed by Retail Trade (12.2%) and Manufacturing (11.4%).

In Victoria, the Construction and Mining industries had the highest proportions of total males employed (89.6% and 79.4% respectively), while the highest proportions of total females employed were in the Health Care and Social Assistance, and Education and Training industries (80.6% and 68.5% respectively).

In terms of full-time employment, the Construction industry accounted for the highest proportion of males employed in Victoria (94.6%), and the Health Care and Social Assistance industry accounted for the highest proportion of full-time females employed (72.8%).

The largest proportion of part-time workers who were male was in the Transport, Postal and Warehousing industry (57.3%), and Health Care and Social Assistance employed the largest proportion of part-time females (90.3%).


View underlying table as an Excel spreadsheet: 1367.2 Employed Persons, By Industry (ANZSIC06) and Major Statistical Region - August Quarter 2008 (file size 68kB).

View underlying table as an Excel spreadsheet: 1367.2 Employed Persons, By Industry (ANZSIC93) and Major Statistical Region - August Quarter 2008 (file size 62kB)

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