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The Dept of Social Services original data on the Youth Allowance and Newstart Recipients for September allows us to update our own Conus/CBC Staff Selection Jobseeker Trend series for Cairns and Townsville SA4s. Trend jobseekers have again fallen in both areas; although Cairns continues to do rather better than Townsville. …read more
We have finally got the much-delayed International Visitor Survey results for the June 2018 quarter from Tourism Research Australia (see here). We should note that TRA acknowledge continued issues with regard to this data and we may see revisions to this data in months to come. Nevertheless, today’s release appears …read more
The ABS release of their original regional labour force September data allows us to update our own Conus/CBC Staff Selection Regional Employment Trends for Queensland; and they show us a positive picture for Cairns. The national and state-wide data released last week (see commentary here) saw the headline unemployment rates …read more
The release by the ABS of the original regional building approvals data for August allows us to update our Conus Trend series for regional Queensland. In a month in which Queensland Trend approvals were unchanged (see here for last week’s commentary) we see a slightly different picture emerging between Greater …read more
Yesterday we took a look at the latest QLD Public Sector work force data for the June 2018 quarter (see here) where we noted that Public Sector full-time equivalent employment numbers continue to grow much faster than population. Since March 2015 FTE numbers in the Public Sector are up 11.9%. …read more
The release of the June quarter Public Sector work force data shows (again) that the Government’s fiscal principle of keeping full-time equivalent Public Sector employment growth to that of population growth has not been met. FTE growth in the year to June 2018 was +3.6%, about twice the forecast pace …read more
With the ABS regional labour force data, and the Conus/CBC Staff Selection Employment Trend of that data, showing the unemployment situation improving in Cairns over the past few of months it’s no surprise that today’s release from the Dept of Social Services of jobseeker data (and the Conus/CBC Staff Selection Jobseeker Trend …read more
The Dept of Employment today released their Small Area Labour Market data for the June quarter. The headline data is presented as a smoothed 4 quarters average at both Local Govt Area and SA2 level. However, hidden in the release is the original, unsmoothed, data and from that we create …read more
Today saw the release of the industry employment data for the August quarter by the ABS. The ABS provide the regional data as a 4-quarters average; we prefer the more timely Conus Trend which is created using the dis-aggregated individual quarters. Looking at Cairns we see the main growth sectors …read more
The updated Conus/CBC Staff Selection Regional Employment Trend data for August shows the Trend unemployment rate in Cairns stable at 6.3% with the addition of 1,700 to Trend employment. All of those extra positions came in the full-time sector with part-time employment falling 100. A strong increase in Trend participation …read more
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