Labour Account Industry data. Increased hourly rates equals cuts in hours worked

Today’s release of the June 2018 Labour Account data series (see here for more details) allows us to take a look at incomes across various industry sectors and how they have changed in the past 12 months. The table below shows, for selected industries, the year-on-year changes in the average …read more

Labour Account shows secondary jobs growing more than twice as fast as main jobs

Today the ABS released their experimental data series Labour Account Australia for the June 2018 quarter. In the ABS’s own words..”The Australian Labour Account consists of eleven sets of tables focusing on four central quadrants of Jobs, Persons, Labour Volume and Labour Payments. Data in each table are available annually, and …read more

Trend Jobseekers fall in Cairns and Townsville

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

Conus Trend SALM data for local Councils

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

Quarterly Industry Employment in Cairns

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

Regional employment Trends; Cairns improves while Rest of QLD beats Greater Brisbane

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

Strong visitor growth but the Chinese boom is certainly slowing

The short term arrivals and departures data for July show total arrivals into Australia were up 3.0% y/y (s.a.) or +5.4% annual to new record highs of almost 9.1 million for the 12 months to July. While the growth of visitors from China continues (up 3.0% y/y and +9.6% annual …read more

Talking QLD labour force data on ABC Far North

Pete spoke to Kier Shorey on ABC Far North this morning about yesterday’s Queensland labour force data (read our comments here). You can listen to the interview below.

Strong labour force data but QLD lags again

The August labour force data for Australia came in stronger than expected with a very solid lift in the number employed of 44,000 (market expectations had centred around 18,000) which saw the headline unemployment rate unchanged at 5.3%  as participation also lifted slightly (all seasonally adjusted data). The vast bulk …read more

Greater Brisbane building approvals growth is coming from outside the city

Yesterday we released the Conus Trend Regional Building Approvals QLD data for July derived from the original ABS data at the SA4 level. We noted that while year on year declines in approvals in QLD (-1.9% y/y) were coming from the Regions (-6.0% y/y) the Greater Brisbane area was still …read more

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