4125.0 - Gender Indicators, Australia, Feb 2014

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 25/02/2014

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Summary of key series
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	Domain
	Sub-domain (level 1)			Latest
	Indicator	Key series	Population	period	Unit	Males	Females

	1. Economic security

	Working population
∆	Labour force	Labour force participation rate	20–74 yrs	2012–13	%	79.0	65.2
∆	Employment conditions	Employed persons, proportion employed part-time	20–74 yrs	2012–13	%	13.6	43.3
∆	Underutilised labour	Unemployment rate	20–74 yrs	2012–13	%	4.6	4.7
	Not in labour force	Persons not in labour force	20–74 yrs	2012–13	%	21.0	34.8
	Earnings, income and economic situation
∆	Earnings (mean)	Non-managerial adult hourly ordinary time cash earnings (mean)	21+ yrs	2012	$	35.40	31.20
∆	Earnings (median)	Non-managerial adult hourly ordinary time cash earnings (median)	21+ yrs	2012	$	29.70	26.90
∆	Economic resources	Persons living in low economic resource households	15+ yrs	2011–12^	%	18.6	20.1
	Main source of income at retirement	Persons not in labour force, main source of personal income is superannuation or annuity	65+ yrs	2011–12	%	18.8	10.5
∆	Superannuation	No superannuation coverage	15–69 yrs	2007	%	19.4	26.5
	Financial stress	Persons, proportion living in households with one or more cash flow problems (a)	15+ yrs	2009–10	%	16.2	17.2
	Housing
∆	Housing circumstances	Persons, proportion living in low income household in rental stress (b)(c)	15+ yrs	2011–12^	%	38.1	37.6
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	2. Education

	Attainment
	Year 12 formal qualification at Certificate II or above	Attainment of Year 12 or formal qualification at Certificate II or above	20–24 yrs	2013^	%	84.3	89.2
∆	Non-school qualification	Attainment of formal qualification at Certificate III or above	25–29 yrs	2013^	%	62.6	68.9
	Literacy and numeracy skills	Literacy competency at skill level 2 or under (d)	15–64 yrs	2011–12^^	%	43.2	43.9
	Participation
∆	Participation and retention	Education participation rate (e)	15–24 yrs	2013^	%	58.7	60.9
	Participation in non-school qualification	Enrolment in Bachelor Degree or above	18–24 yrs	2013^	%	25.5	32.4
	Work related learning	Participation in work related learning in last 12 months	20–64 yrs	2013^^^	%	40.7	41.4
	Education and employment
∆	Not fully engaged in education and/ or employment	Not fully engaged in education and/ or employment (f)	15–19 yrs	2013^	%	14.1	13.3
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	3. Health

	Health status
∆	Life expectancy	Life expectancy at birth	0 yrs	2010–12^	years	79.9	84.3
	Morbidity prevalence	Reporting one or more long term health conditions	All persons	2011–12	% (age std)	75.6	77.7
∆	Living with a disability	Reporting disability	All persons	2012^	% (age std)	17.6	17.3
	Psychological distress	Reporting high/ very high level of psychological distress	18+ yrs	2011–12	% (age std)	8.8	12.8
∆	Mental health	Reporting any 12-month mental disorder	16–85 yrs	2007	%	17.6	22.3
	Deaths
∆	Death rate	Death rate, all causes	All persons	2012^	per 1,000 (age std)	6.6	4.6
	Deaths from cancer	Death rate from cancer	All persons	2011	per 100,000 (age std)	221.9	138.4
	Deaths from diseases of the circulatory system	Death rate from ischaemic heart disease	All persons	2011	per 100,000 (age std)	109.7	58.0
∆	Suicides	Death rate from suicide	All persons	2011	per 100,000 (age std)	15.5	4.8
	Death in motor vehicle accidents	Death rate in motor vehicle accidents	All persons	2011	per 100,000 (age std)	9.1	3.3
	Drug induced deaths	Drug induced death rate	All persons	2011	per 100,000 (age std)	8.5	4.4
	Perinatal deaths	Perinatal deaths (g)	All births	2011	per 1,000 (age std) (h)		8.4
	Risk factors
∆	Consumption of alcohol	Consumption of alcohol in quantities that exceed lifetime risk (i)	18+ yrs (age std)	2011–12	% (age std)	28.9	10.1
∆	Smoking	Current smokers	18+ yrs (age std)	2011–12	% (age std)	20.3	16.0
∆	Overweight/ obesity	Overweight/ obesity (measured Body Mass Index) (j)	18+ yrs (age std)	2011–12	% (age std)	69.9	55.2
	Level of exercise	Sedentary or engaging in low levels of exercise (k)	18+ yrs (age std)	2011–12	% (age std)	63.2	72.3
	Services
	Medicare services	Average number of Medicare services processed per person	All persons	2012–13	no.	12.4	17.1
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	4. Work and family balance

	Time use
∆	Engagement in work (employment related and unpaid)	Total number of hours and minutes per day spent on work (employment related and unpaid)	15+ yrs	2006	hh:mins	7:25	7:34
∆	Caring for children	Total number of hours and minutes per day spent by parents to care for children	15+ yrs	2006	hh:mins	3:55	8:33
∆	Providing primary care to a person with a disability	Providing primary care to a person with a disability	15+ yrs	2012	%	2.1	4.7
	Provided care to someone in the last week	Employed persons who provided care to someone in the last week	15+ yrs	2007	%	39.3	43.1
	Time stress and work and family balance
∆	Stressed for time	Always/ often feel rushed or pressed for time	15+ yrs	2007	%	34.9	42.4
	Work and family balance	Feel their work and family responsibilities are rarely/ never in balance	15+ yrs	2007	%	16.3	14.6
	Volunteering
∆	Volunteering rates	Volunteering rate	18+ yrs	2010	%	34.4	38.1
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	5. Safety and justice

	Victims
●	Victims of violence and stalking	Experience of violence during the last 12 months	18+ yrs	2012^	%	8.7	5.3
∆	Victimisation rates	Victims and victimisation rate for physical or threatened physical assault	15+ yrs	2011–12	%	7.2	4.9
	Imprisonment
∆	Imprisonment rates	Imprisonment rate	18+ yrs (l)	2013^	per 100,000 (age std)	318.1	25.6
	Offenders
	Offender rates	Offender rate	10+ yrs	2010–11	per 100,000	2,959.3	833.8
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	6. Democracy, governance and citizenship

	Leadership roles
∆	Leaders in top 200 ASX companies	Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in top 200 ASX companies	Positions	2012	%	96.5	3.5
∆	Parliamentarians	Federal parliamentarians	Positions	2014^	%	68.7	31.3
	Membership of Commonwealth Government boards and bodies	Members of Commonwealth Government boards and bodies	Positions	2013^	%	58.3	41.7
	Australian Public Service senior and middle managers	Senior executive service (SES) managers in the Australian Public Service (APS)	Positions	2013^	%	60.5	39.5
	Judges and magistrates	Commonwealth judges and magistrates	Positions	2013	%	69.1	30.9
	Recognition of outstanding achievement and service
∆	Order of Australia awards	Recipients of Companion or Officer of the Order (AC/ AO) (General Division)	Recipients	2013	%	68.6	31.4

∆ Includes historical commentary - see January 2013 release of Gender Indicators, Australia (cat. no. 4125.0).
● Commentary has been updated with data from the ABS Personal Safety Survey, 2012.
^ Series has been updated in this release.
^^ Series has been updated in this release. Prior to the February 2014 release of Gender Indicators, Australia, data for this series was sourced from the ABS Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey, Australia, 2006 (cat. no. 4228.0). Because this survey has since been discontinued, this table now sources data from the ABS Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, Australia. For methodological reasons, data from these two surveys are not comparable.
^^^ Series has been updated in this release. Prior to the February 2014 release of Gender Indicators, Australia, data for this series was sourced from the ABS Survey of Education and Training. Because this survey has since been discontinued, this series now sources data from the ABS Survey of Work-Related Training and Adult Learning. For methodological reasons, data from these two surveys are not comparable.

(a) When financial activities of the household are constrained by shortage of money. The specific financial activities could be: went without meals; could not afford to heat home; could not pay electricity, gas or telephone bills on time etc.
(b) A household is considered to be in rental stress if its rental costs exceed 30 per cent of its gross income.
(c) Males and females aged 15 years and over, living in low income households in rental stress as a proportion of total population for each sex in the lowest two income quintiles of Equivalised Disposable Household Income.
(d) Skill level 2 and under reflect the lower end of the competency spectrum and levels 4 and 5 reflect the higher end of the competency spectrum.
(e) Includes persons enrolled in formal or non-formal learning.
(f) Those not fully engaged in education and/or employment are those who in the survey reference week were: not studying or working (and therefore unemployed or not in the labour force); were studying part-time and not working (therefore unemployed or not in the labour force); or were not studying but were in part-time work.
(g) Perinatal deaths are all fetal deaths (at least 20 weeks gestation or at least 400 grams birth weight) plus all neonatal deaths (death of a live born baby within 28 completed days of birth). As male deaths include those perinatal deaths of sex indeterminate, only the total rate is presented.
(h) Perinatal death rates are calculated per 1,000 all births for the calendar year.
(i) Based on 2009 National Health Medical Research Council 'Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol'. The 2009 guidelines align the definition of what constitutes 'risky' alcohol consumption for males and females. That is, the consumption of more than two standard drinks per day by either a male or female, presents a risk over that individual's 'lifetime'.
(j) Based on measured height and weight.
(k) In the last week.
(l) In Queensland, includes persons aged 17 years and over.