RECENTLY RELEASED MULTI PURPOSE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
REPLACEMENT CONTENT OF WORK-RELATED INJURIES, AUSTRALIA 2009-10
In December 2010, the ABS released Work-Related Injuries, Australia, 2009-10 (cat. no. 6324.0). Errors were found in some of the industry data following the release which resulted in a Replacement Content released in November 2011. The replacement content corrects errors in the data items Industry of current main job and Industry of job where the most recent work-related injury or illness occurred. The industries affected are: Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing; Mining; and Manufacturing. Updates have been made to the paragraphs on industry (and graph) in the Summary of Findings, and Tables 4 and 7 of the PDF publication. Updates have also been made to data cube 4 and data cube 7 that contain industry data.
RELEASE OF BARRIERS AND INCENTIVES TO LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION
In December 2011, the ABS released Barriers and Incentives to Labour Force Participation, Australia, July 2010 to June 2011 (cat. no. 6239.0), which presents information about people aged 18 years and over who are either not employed or who usually worked less than 16 hours. The data collected provides information on the potential labour force and the characteristics of that potential labour force.
Of the 16.5 million people aged 18 years and over, there were 6.4 million people who were not employed or who worked fewer than 16 hours. Of those 6.4 million people, approximately 1.7 million (27%) indicated that they would like a job or to work more hours. The remaining 4.7 million people (73%) did not want a job or did not want to work more hours, or were undecided.
More details are available from the publication.
RELEASE OF RETIREMENT AND RETIREMENT INTENTIONS
In December 2011, the ABS released Retirement and Retirement Intentions, Australia, July 2010 to June 2011 (cat. no. 6238.0), which presents information about the retirement status and retirement intentions of people aged 45 years and over who have, at some time, worked for two weeks or more. The data collected provides information on retirement trends, the factors which influence decisions to retire, and the income arrangements that retirees and potential retirees have made to provide for their retirement.
Of the 8.5 million people aged 45 years and over who had, at some time, worked for two weeks or more, 4.9 million (57%) were in the labour force, 3.2 million (36%) had retired from the labour force, and the remaining 340,300 (4%) were not currently in the labour force but had not retired.
More details are available from the publication.
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