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
October 2023
Released
23/11/2023

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

Update on enhanced Regional Labour Market Data

As part of ongoing improvements to the estimation method for Labour Force statistics, the ABS is also developing improved monthly regional labour force estimates.

A new information paper was released on 30th October 2023 with the following updates on progress towards releasing higher quality regional labour force statistics:

  • refinements to the model that will be used to produce improved SA4 level estimates
  • updated SA4 estimates through to August 2023, based on the refined version of the model
  • information on release plans, including timing
  • plans to continue enhancing regional labour force statistics through modelling finer level sub-state estimates.

The ABS has also released a research paper, A Rao-Yu model for small area estimation of labour force statistics, with additional details on the Rao-Yu area-level time series model used to produce these estimates.

The first release of the information paper on this project was in June 2023.

Upcoming improvements to the Labour Force estimation method in early 2024

Labour force status

Monthly (October)

Data files

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Industry, Occupation and Sector

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Hours worked

Monthly (October)

Data files

Unemployment

Monthly (October)

Data files

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Underemployment and underutilisation

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Status in employment

Monthly (October)

Data files

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Labour market regions (SA4)

Monthly (October)

Data files

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Relationship in household

Monthly (October)

Data files

Current and expected job duration

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Retrenchment

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Not in the labour force

Monthly (October)

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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