6105.0 - Australian Labour Market Statistics, Jan 2011

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LABOUR MARKET SUMMARY

KEY MEASURES

						% change from
Measure			Series type	Period	Current figure	Previous qtr(a)	Previous year(b)

Employed
	Persons	'000	Trend	Nov 10	11 390.1	0.9	3.3
	Full-time	'000	Trend	Nov 10	8 012.2	1.0	3.9
	Part-time	'000	Trend	Nov 10	3 377.9	0.7	2.1
	Part-time employment as a proportion of total employment	%	Trend	Nov 10	29.7	(c)-0.1	(c)-0.4
Employment to population ratio
	Persons	%	Trend	Nov 10	62.5	(c)0.3	(c)0.8
	Males	%	Trend	Nov 10	69.2	(c)0.4	(c)1.0
	Females	%	Trend	Nov 10	55.9	(c)0.3	(c)0.5
Unemployed
	Persons	'000	Trend	Nov 10	632.7	2.0	-3.2
	Looking for full-time work	'000	Trend	Nov 10	442.3	1.2	-8.7
	Looking for part-time work	'000	Trend	Nov 10	190.4	3.8	12.2
Unemployment rate
	Persons	%	Trend	Nov 10	5.3	(c)0.1	(c)-0.3
Long-term unemployment
	Persons	'000	Trend	Nov 10	124.0	5.9	15.6
	As a proportion of total unemployment	%	Trend	Nov 10	19.6	(c)0.7	(c)3.2
	Long-term unemployment rate	%	Trend	Nov 10	1.0	(c)0.1	(c)0.1
Quarterly labour underutilisation rates
	Underemployment rate	%	Trend	Nov 10	7.2	(c)0.0	(c)-0.6
	Labour force underutilisation rate	%	Trend	Nov 10	12.4	(c)0.0	(c)-1.0
Children living without an employed parent(d)		%	Original	Jun 09	15.1	na	(c)2.6
Labour force participation rate
	Persons aged 15-64 years	%	Trend	Nov 10	76.9	(c)0.4	(c)0.7
	Total	%	Trend	Nov 10	65.9	(c)0.4	(c)0.6
Aggregate monthly hours worked
	Persons	mill. hours	Trend	Nov 10	1 601.9	0.6	3.5
Actual hours worked
	Average weekly hours - Persons	hours	Original	Nov 10	33.8	-0.5	-0.4
	Average weekly hours - Full-time	hours	Original	Nov 10	40.9	-0.7	-0.7
	Average weekly hours - Part-time	hours	Original	Nov 10	16.7	-1.7	-0.3
Part-time workers
	Proportion who preferred to work more hours	%	Original	Nov 10	25.4	(c)0.6	(c)-1.7
Wage price index
	Total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses	index no.	Trend	Sep qtr 2010	105.5	1.0	3.6
Average weekly earnings
	Full-time adult ordinary time earnings	$	Trend	Aug 10	1 259.4	0.6	4.4
	All employees total earnings	$	Trend	Aug 10	982.9	0.6	4.7
Industrial disputes
	Working days lost	'000	Original	Sep qtr 2010	46.6	94.3	60.4
	Working days lost per 1,000 employees	number	Original	Sep qtr 2010	4.7	95.4	53.1
Job vacancies(e)
	Australia	'000	Original	Aug 10	181.4	10.2	na

na not available
(a) Same period previous quarter (monthly data is presented for the middle month of each quarter).
(b) Same period previous year.
(c) Change is in percentage points.
(d) As a proportion of all children aged under 15 years.
(e) As a result of the Job Vacancy Survey being suspended, no original estimates were produced for five quarters between August 2008 and August 2009 inclusive.