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
November 2022
Released
22/12/2022

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

Guide to labour statistics

To learn more about our different labour measures, their purpose and how to use them, see our Guide to labour statistics. It provides summary information on labour market topics including Industry employment data.

Major rebenchmarking of labour force estimates

Labour Force estimates have been rebenchmarked to the 2021 Census-based ERP (estimated resident population), resulting in revisions to Labour Force estimates from July 2016 onwards. Revisions at the Australia-level are minimal, and have been summarised in the following article.

Reinstating Trend data

The ABS has reinstated Labour Force Trend estimates (including for the entire COVID period) and reverted to concurrent seasonal adjustment. Trend estimates for the quarterly series (Table 04) are now available in this issue, along with the Trend estimates of the monthly series (Table 14b).

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

Labour force status

Monthly (November)

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Quarterly (November)

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Industry, Occupation and Sector

Quarterly (November)

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Hours worked

Monthly (November)

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Unemployment

Monthly (November)

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Quarterly (November)

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Underemployment and underutilisation

Quarterly (November)

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Status in employment

Monthly (November)

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Quarterly (November)

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Labour market regions (SA4)

Monthly (November)

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Quarterly (November)

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Relationship in household

Monthly (November)

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Current and expected job duration

Quarterly (November)

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Retrenchment

Quarterly (November)

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Not in the labour force

Monthly (November)

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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:

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