Small Area Labour Markets - Australia
March quarter 2009
Prepared by the Economic, Labour Market and Education Analysis Branch, Research Analysis and Evaluation Group
Small Area Labour Markets - March Quarter 2009
Small Area Labour Markets - March Quarter 2009 ( PDF 910KB)
Small Area Labour Markets presents estimates of the number of unemployed persons and unemployment rates for approximately 1400 Statistical Local Areas across Australia.
Due to the transition from the 2001 Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) to the 2006 ASGC, there have been significant boundary changes to around 230 SLAs, resulting in the earliest available smoothed data for these SLAs being for the September quarter 2008. For further details please see the Changes to the ASGC and SALM document.
Changes to the ASGC and SALM ( PDF 175KB)
In addition to the geography change, new population benchmarks based on the 2006 Census of Population and Housing have also been introduced in the March quarter 2009. The SALM data have been revised back to the June quarter 2007 (unsmoothed) and are available in the Backcast data document below.
Small Area Labour Markets - Backcast data ( PDF 831KB)
Small Area Labour Markets in book form and as a data file
Small Area Labour Markets is also available
- in book form (free on request), which is a hardcopy version of the PDF file accessible above; and
- as a data file containing the SLA estimates in Table 1 and 2 of the PDF publication. The data file is available in Excel and comma separated values (CSV) formats and also includes SLA identifiers. The data files can be purchased as either an annual subscription or a one-off special data order.
For further information about either the book or data file formats of Small Area Labour Markets, email SALM.
Other sources of information
The Department also publishes the quarterly Australian Regional Labour Markets brochure which presents labour market information for the Australian Bureau of Statistics Labour Force Regions. This publication is available free on request by calling (02) 6121 3538.