ABS employment in detail: Broad-based recovery continues

Thursday 19 October 2017

As summarised earlier, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today released its labour force report for September, which registered another 19,800 increase in total employment and a 0.1% decline in the headline unemployment rate to 5.6%.

In trend terms, the unemployment rate fell marginally from 5.54% to 5.51% – the lowest level since February 2013:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.