Labour Force, Australia, Detailed

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Detailed monthly and quarterly Labour Force Survey data, including hours, regions, families, job search, job duration, casual, industry and occupation

Reference period
April 2022
Released
26/05/2022

Flooding in New South Wales and Queensland in late February 2022 resulted in a major disruption to the operation of the Labour Force Survey. As a result, there was lower than usual numbers of responding households in some of the affected regions in March 2022.

Given the severity of these disruptions and to ensure this loss of sample did not affect data for Australia, New South Wales and Queensland, the ABS imputed some sample within 15 statistical area level 4 (SA4s) regions for March 2022. This imputation approach drew upon previous information that had recently been collected from people in the affected areas, following the approach used for February 2019 for the Townsville Flood.

The ABS has re-assessed this imputation, with reference to April 2022 data for the affected areas, and has not revised the imputed data for March. The ABS will continue to monitor the data over coming months and undertake additional analysis of the imputed data as further data becomes available.

Data for all SA4s are published in Labour Force, Australia, Detailed on 26 May 2022.

Data from the monthly Labour Force Survey are released in two stages:

  1. Labour Force, Australia - which contains headline estimates of employment, unemployment, underemployment, participation and hours worked
  2. Labour Force, Australia, Detailed - which contains detailed data not included in the first release

This second release of Labour Force Survey data includes the latest detailed monthly and quarterly data. Some information, including industry, occupation, sector, job duration, and retrenchment, is only available for February, May, August and November.

As a result, in the 'non-quarter' months, the quarterly spreadsheets and datacubes have a different reference period. For example, the May issue contains May monthly and May quarterly data, while the July issue will contain July monthly and May quarterly data.

For more information on the data contained in the first and second releases, see the Survey output section of the Labour Force Survey Methodology page.

Using regional labour force data

Labour force status

Monthly (April)

Data files

Quarterly (February)

Data files

Industry, Occupation and Sector

Quarterly (February)

Data files

Hours worked

Monthly (April)

Data files

Unemployment

Monthly (April)

Data files

Quarterly (February)

Data files

Underemployment and underutilisation

Quarterly (February)

Data files

Status in employment

Monthly (April)

Data files

Quarterly (February)

Data files

Labour market regions (SA4)

Monthly (April)

Data files

Quarterly (February)

Data files

Relationship in household

Monthly (April)

Data files

Current and expected job duration

Quarterly (February)

Data files

Retrenchment

Quarterly (February)

Data files

Not in the labour force

Monthly (April)

Data files

All data downloads

All monthly time series spreadsheets

All monthly pivot tables

All quarterly time series spreadsheets

All quarterly pivot tables

Previous catalogue number

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