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 2023
Released
21/09/2023

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

Enhanced Regional Labour Market Data

The ABS is developing improved monthly regional labour market statistics. More information on this, including new illustrative estimates and methodology, can be found in the Information Paper that was released on 27 June 2023.

The modelled SA4 level labour force estimates will be implemented into the regular set of Labour Force Survey outputs, and be published on a monthly basis. The first monthly release of the modelled SA4 estimates is expected to be published with the January 2024 Labour Force, Australia, in February 2024.

The modelled estimates will initially be added into Labour Force, Australia, Detailed around a week after it is first published.

Labour force status

Monthly (August)

Data files

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Industry, Occupation and Sector

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Hours worked

Monthly (August)

Data files

Unemployment

Monthly (August)

Data files

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Underemployment and underutilisation

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Status in employment

Monthly (August)

Data files

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Labour market regions (SA4)

Monthly (August)

Data files

Quarterly (August)

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Relationship in household

Monthly (August)

Data files

Current and expected job duration

Quarterly (August)

Data files

Retrenchment

Quarterly (August)

Data files

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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