ABS employment in detail: Turning point?

Thursday 15 February 2018

As summarised earlier, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today released its labour force report for January, which registered a 16,000 increase in total employment (but a big fall in full-time employment) as well as a decrease in the headline unemployment rate (from 5.6% to 5.5%).

In trend terms, the unemployment rate rose marginally from 5.46% to 5.47%:

The full text of this article is available to MacroBusiness subscribers

$1 for your first month, then:

$24.99 / month

$249 / year

Cancel at any time through our billing provider, Stripe

About the author

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.