Employment
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in December 2012 was estimated to be 5.4% of an estimated labour force of approximately 12,000,000.
According to Roy Morgan Research the unemployment rate was estimated to be 10% in December 2012. 17.5% (2.1 million) Australians were estimated to be either unemployed or underemployed. Over 2 million workers, or about 40% of the Australian workforce, were estimated to be currently part-time or casual.
| Rank | States | Unemployment rate (ABS) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tasmania | 6.8% |
| 2 | Queensland | 5.9% |
| 3 | South Australia | 5.7% |
| 4 | Victoria | 5.6% |
| 5 | New South Wales | 4.8% |
| 6 | Northern Territory | 4.2% |
| 7 | Western Australia | 3.9% |
| 8 | Australian Capital Territory | 3.6% |
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Famous quotes containing the word employment:
“We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“My job as a reservationist was very routine, computerized ... I had no free will. I was just part of that stupid computer.”
—Beryl Simpson, U.S. employment counselor; former airline reservationist. As quoted in Working, book 2, by Studs Terkel (1973)
“It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)