New Conus SALM Trend data for NSW

Working from the Dept of Employment quarterly (unsmoothed original) Small Area Labour Market data we have recently added to our QLD Local Government Area Trend series by expanding to cover all the LGAs in NSW. For the quarter to Dec 2017 the highest level of Trend unemployment in NSW was …read more

Short term arrivals continue to grow; QLD continues to underperform

Today’s release of short term arrivals and departures data from the ABS for Dec show arrivals grew by 4% (seasonally adjusted) and 5.8% (Trend) on the same time a year ago. Growth from China continues to be strong, up 10.1% for the year (Trend). Short term departures of residents grew …read more

How long does it take to get a job in QLD?

I was spurred into action this week by an article from John McCarthy in the Courier MailĀ  (see here) in which he discussed the ABS data for theĀ median length of time job seekers are spending looking for work. It’s not a data set that I’ve previously looked at much but …read more

Time for ABS to step up with better data for the regions

For years we have been bemoaning the lack of quality data provided by the ABS at a regional (SA4) level. In particular the labour market data has been a major gripe of ours. How can we expect State and Local Governments to be making sensible policy decisions when they are …read more

Conus Trend Regional Jobs data for NSW now available

We have today released the Conus Trend Regional Jobs data for NSW. The full data-set is available for download below (and on our Reports page with all our other Trend data). Please feel free to use the data (for non-commercial purposes) but we would appreciate you acknowledging Conus when you …read more

NSW and Victoria added to the Conus Trend Regional Jobs database

For some time we have been working to expand our Conus Trend Regional Jobs database and are pleased to announce that we now have our full Conus Trend data available for NSW and Victoria to add to our previous QLD data. Following future ABS Regional Labour Force data releases we …read more

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