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On Friday the Dept of Employment released the latest Small Area Labour Market (SALM) data at the Local Government Area level for the quarter to Sept. Using the unsmoothed (original) SALM data, which is tucked away in the explanatory notes section, we have created a Conus SALM Trend series of unemployment …read more
November saw another strong month for labour force data. Employment (seasonally adjusted) jumped by 61,600 (expectations had been for around 19,000) with 41,900 of those being full-time. Over the course of the past 12 months employment has increased by 383,300 of which 79.5% have come in the full-time jobs. The …read more
Pete spoke to John MacKenzie on radio 4CA this morning about a couple of articles in The Cairns Post regarding employment in the region as well as preparing your business for the coming storm season. You can listen to the interview below.
Regular readers will be well aware that there are various ways to look at the labour market; the standard “unemployment rate” being just one of them. Another, less well known measure, is provided by way of the Dept of Social Services data in their monthly payment recipients release (available here). …read more
This morning’s release of the regional labour market data, as always, needs to be seen through the lens of the Conus Trend; and what it shows is something of a turn-around in the dramatic recovery that we’ve been witnessing in the North. This is perhaps not very surprising, although the …read more
As we run towards the last few days of the Queensland state election we’re hearing lots about employment from both the Government (who are talking up solid jobs growth) and the Opposition (who are highlighting weak full-time jobs). There is also a certain amount of talk from the commentariat about …read more
The Labour Force data for October released this morning by the ABS showed employment up 3,700 (s.a) or 20,000 (Trend) for the nation with the headline, seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dipping to 5.4% (the Trend remained stable at 5.5%). Participation fell slightly to 65.1 (from 65.2) and this will have …read more
After yesterday’s ABS regional jobs data (see here) showed continued improvement in the labour force measures in the Cairns and Townsville SA4 areas, today we get the Dept of Employment’s, much awaited, quarterly Small Area Labour Market (SALM) data for the second quarter which allows us to consider data at …read more
The ABS released their original, unadjusted regional labour force data for Sept this morning. We need to consider the Conus Trend series to make much sense of this highly volatile data series. When we consider the split between the Greater Brisbane and Rest of Queensland areas we see that the …read more
Yesterday saw the release of the second tranche of Census 2016 data part of which included information relating to employment. However, we would suggest that we need to be careful when reading too much into the Census data as it relates to employment. Employment is one of the few indicators …read more
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