2008.0 - Census of Population and Housing: Nature and Content, Australia, 2016

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Preface Introduction Legal authority, confidentiality and privacy Collection operations Processing Results and output Topics to be included in the 2016 Census + Personal topics Name Sex Age Residential status in non-private dwelling Registered marital status Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander origin Usual residence at Census time Internal migration Australian citizenship Country of birth Year of arrival in Australia Country of birth of parents Main language other than English spoken at home Proficiency in spoken English Ancestry Religious affiliation Need for assistance Attendance at an educational institution Highest year of schooling completed Non-school qualifications Number of children ever born Income (individual) Labour force status Status in employment Occupation Public or private employer indicator Workplace address (and Journey to work) Industry of employment Hours worked Method of travel to work Unpaid work + Household and dwelling topics Topic release schedule Census Time Capsule ABS releases information about 2016 Census topics (Media Release) About this Release History of Changes	LABOUR FORCE STATUS This topic classifies people aged 15 years and over as being employed, unemployed or not in the labour force, during the week before Census night. Information about the labour force participation levels is essential for a wide range of social and economic policy and planning purposes. BACKGROUND Information on labour force status, and status in employment, has been obtained in every Census since 1911. In recent Censuses, respondents were asked to answer a series of questions from which labour force status was derived. Since the 1996 Census, a question about availability of the person to start work has been included so that counts of unemployed people in the Census are more comparable with data collected in the ABS Monthly Labour Force Survey. A change has been made to the wording of the initial question for the 2016 Census for simplification and to improve data quality. Specifically, the reference to full-time and part-time working arrangements has been removed from the question itself (previously 'Last week, did the person have a full-time or part-time job of any kind?') and incorporated into the appropriate dot point instruction. For the 2016 Census, the question about active job seeking has been re-formatted slightly to emphasise and clarify the 'active' component. QUESTIONS The following questions are from the paper 2016 Census Household Form. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.