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Investigations into making greater use of labour survey data

The Monthly Population Survey provides the ABS with a range of labour and other data on a monthly basis. The Monthly Population Survey comprises the Labour Force Survey and one or more supplementary surveys.

Households in the Monthly Population Survey are interviewed over eight consecutive months, and people who respond in consecutive months form a matched sample. It is from this matched sample that the ABS can produce Labour Force Survey gross flows, which show month-to-month labour market transitions. These transitions are released on a monthly basis as the Gross Flows datacube (GM1, from cat. no. 6291.0.55.001).

In 2009, the ABS plans to investigate how greater use could be made of existing Monthly Population Survey data by expanding on the approach used to produce gross flows data. The investigation will explore the feasibility of developing additional longitudinal data to facilitate analysis of short to medium labour market transitions, and also explore the extent to which richer cross-sectional datasets could be created by combining data collected in different months.

Any potential outputs from this project will be subject to the existing ABS confidentiality requirements, as set out in the Census and Statistics Act 1905.

For more information please contact us on (02) 6252 7206 or email labour.statistics@abs.gov.au