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
August 2022
Released
21/09/2022

About this release

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

Reinstating Trend data

The ABS is planning to reinstate Labour Force Trend estimates (including for the entire COVID period) and revert to concurrent seasonal adjustment. The monthly Trend estimates will be available with September 2022 data to be published in Labour Force, Australia, released on 20 October 2022. The Labour Force, Australia, Detailed estimates will become available in two stages, on 27 October for monthly series and 22 December 2022 for quarterly series.

For further information, see Seasonal adjustment and trend estimates in Survey Impacts and Changes, in Labour Force, Australia, August 2022.

Labour force status

Monthly (August)

Data files

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Industry, Occupation and Sector

Quarterly (August)

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Hours worked

Monthly (August)

Data files

Unemployment

Monthly (August)

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Quarterly (August)

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Underemployment and underutilisation

Quarterly (August)

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Status in employment

Monthly (August)

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Quarterly (August)

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Labour market regions (SA4)

Monthly (August)

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Quarterly (August)

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Relationship in household

Monthly (August)

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Current and expected job duration

Quarterly (August)

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Retrenchment

Quarterly (August)

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Not in the labour force

Monthly (August)

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

This release previously used catalogue numbers:

Detailed Labour Force data were also previously published in:

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