Pete on 4CA talking about the latest regional jobs data

Pete was on Radio 4CA this morning talking to John MacKenzie about the latest release of the Conus Trend Regional Jobs data. Listen below…

Dept of Social Service payment data confirms improvement in Cairns

Three weeks ago I wrote about some initial analysis of Dept of Social Service allowance payment data. Since then I have been in touch with the Dept to obtain some older data and they have also released their latest numbers for September; so here’s a more complete and up-to-date look …read more

Regional job improvements; but Townsville is all down to falling Participation

The ABS release of original regional labour force data for September, as always, needs to be considered in light of the Conus Trend to make much sense of what can be very volatile data. In Cairns we see the Conus Trend unemployment rate fall to 8.4% (after an unrevised 8.7% …read more

Regional Building Approvals disappoint in Cairns but better in Townsville

We have just returned from holiday so are now catching up on some data released during our absence. Last Tuesday saw the release of the ABS original regional building approvals data at both SA4 and Local Government Area level. Our own Conus Trend series help shed light on these highly …read more

Dept of Social Services allowance payment data supports the better news for Cairns

We have taken some time to analyse the Dept. of Social Service data set for payments of Newstart and Youth Allowances since Dec 2011. When looking at data for our region we have summed the totals for the Atherton, Cairns, Innisfail, Mareeba, Mossman and Yarrabah Service Zones. These Service Zones, …read more

A decade of change in employment in Cairns

Analysing the ABS quarterly data on the industry make-up of employment in the Cairns SA4 region shows us clearly that over the past decade the two big winners have been Health Care and Education. Our biggest loser has been Retail Trade (for more details see our post from last week). …read more

Regional Industry data

Last Thursday saw the ABS release their August monthly regional labour force data, and our own Conus Trend series (see here for details). They also released their quarterly data on regional employment by industry sector for the August quarter. This is presented on a quarterly basis as a rolling 4-quarter …read more

Pete on ABC Far North this morning

Pete was interviewed by Kier Shorey on ABC Far North this morning about the latest regional labour force data for Cairns and Townsville.

Dept of Employment Small Area Labour Market data confirms weakness in Townsville

The release by the Dept of Employment of their Small Area Labour Market (SALM) data for the second quarter to June 2016 confirms the weaker story that we’ve been seeing in North Queensland (and in particular Townsville) for a while. The SALM data is based on a range of indicators including …read more

Regional jobs – improvement for Cairns but worse for Townsville

Today saw the release of the ABS regional labour force data for August. Our own Conus Trend series attempts to make some sense of the original, unadjusted data. In Cairns SA4 the original data showed a decline in the unemployment rate to 8.1% with 100 total jobs lost. We now have …read more

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