JUNE KEY FIGURES

		May 2009	Jun 2009	May 09 to Jun 09		Jun 08 to Jun 09
Trend
	Employed persons ('000)	10 777.3	10 772.5	-4.8		-0.1	%
	Unemployed persons ('000)	655.8	668.4	12.6		41.2	%
	Unemployment rate (%)	5.7	5.8	0.1	pts	1.6	pts
	Participation rate (%)	65.4	65.4	0.0	pts	-0.1	pts
Seasonally Adjusted
	Employed persons ('000)	10 783.9	10 762.5	-21.4		-0.2	%
	Unemployed persons ('000)	655.5	662.9	7.4		39.1	%
	Unemployment rate (%)	5.7	5.8	0.1	pts	1.6	pts
	Participation rate (%)	65.4	65.3	-0.2	pts	-0.2	pts

Employed Persons

Unemployment rate

JUNE KEY POINTS


TREND ESTIMATES (MONTHLY CHANGE)

• EMPLOYMENT decreased to 10,772,500
• UNEMPLOYMENT increased to 668,400
• UNEMPLOYMENT RATE increased to 5.8%
• PARTICIPATION RATE at 65.4%

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES (MONTHLY CHANGE)

EMPLOYMENT

• decreased by 21,400 to 10,762,500. Full-time employment decreased by 21,900 to 7,611,800 and part-time employment increased by 400 to 3,150,600.

UNEMPLOYMENT

• increased by 7,400 to 662,900. The number of persons looking for full-time work increased by 13,000 to 500,900 and the number of persons looking for part-time work decreased by 5,600 to 162,100.

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE

• increased 0.1 percentage point to 5.8%. The male unemployment rate increased 0.1 percentage point to 6.1%, and the female unemployment rate remained steady at 5.4%.

PARTICIPATION RATE

• decreased by 0.2 percentage points to 65.3%.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
July 2009	6 August 2009
August 2009	10 September 2009
September 2009	8 October 2009
October 2009	12 November 2009
November 2009	10 December 2009
December 2009	14 January 2010

SAMPLE RE-INSTATEMENT

On 13 May 2009, the Australian Statistician announced the full re-instatement of the Labour Force Survey sample. The re-instatement will occur over four reference months, from September to December 2009. The December 2009 estimates, released in January 2010, will be the first under the fully re-instated sample. The reversal of the 24% reduction in sample size is expected to decrease standard errors by approximately 15%.


SAMPLING ERRORS

The estimates in this publication are based on a sample survey, therefore, published estimates and the movements derived from them are subject to sampling variability. Standard errors give a measure of this variability, see pages 29 and 30.

The interval bounded by the two limits is the 95% confidence interval, which provides another way of looking at the variability inherent in estimates. This represents a 95% chance that the true value of the estimate lies within that interval.

Movements in seasonally adjusted series between May 2009 and June 2009
	Monthly change	95% Confidence interval
Total Employment	-21 400	-82 000	to	39 200
Total Unemployment	7 400	-30 000	to	44 800
Unemployment rate	0.1 pts	-0.3 pts	to	0.5 pts
Participation rate	-0.2 pts	-0.6 pts	to	0.2 pts

INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070, email client.services@abs.gov.au or Steve Wood on Canberra (02) 6252 6525, email labourforce@abs.gov.au.