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Small Area Labour Markets - Australia

June quarter 2008

Prepared by the Economic and Labour Market Analysis Branch, Labour Market Strategies Group
[The September quarter 2008 edition of Small Area Labour Markets will be released and published on this site in November 2008]

Small Area Labour Markets - June Quarter 2008

Small Area Labour Markets presents estimates of the number of unemployed persons and unemployment rates for approximately 1350 Statistical Local Areas across Australia. It also provides estimates of the main labour market aggregates for the 19 DEEWR labour market regions.

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 3 and 4 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.