Posted 03/01/2023 by Joanne Simon-Davies
This month: the latest data from the new Labour Hire Workers report, the 2022 Australian Election Study and the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Longitudinal Survey.
Forthcoming releases
If you are interested in any of the forthcoming releases or datasets, please contact the Parliamentary Library to discuss in more detail.
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Statistical reports |
Release date |
| ANZ |
ANZ Australian Job Ads, December 2022 |
5 Jan |
| ABS |
Building Approvals, November 2022 |
9 Jan |
| ABS |
Monthly Household Spending Indicator, November 2022 |
10 Jan |
| ABS |
Monthly Consumer Price Index indicator, November 2022 |
11 Jan |
| ABS |
Job Vacancies, November 2022 |
11 Jan |
| ABS |
Retail Trade, November 2022 |
11 Jan |
| ABS |
Engineering Construction Activity, September 2022 |
11 Jan |
| Jobs (a) |
Nowcast of Employment by Region and Occupation, Experimental dataset, December 2022 |
11 Jan |
| ABS |
International Trade in Goods and Services, November 2022 |
12 Jan |
| ABS |
Lending Indicators, November 2022 |
13 Jan |
| ABS |
Building Approvals, November 2022 |
16 Jan |
| ABS |
Agricultural Commodities, 2021–22 |
17 Jan |
| ABS |
Value of Agricultural Commodities Produced, 2021–22 |
17 Jan |
| ABS |
Building Activity, September 2022 |
18 Jan |
| ABS |
Labour Force, December 2022 |
19 Jan |
| ABS |
Prisoners in Australia, 2022 |
20 Jan |
| ABS |
Monthly Business Turnover Indicator, November 2022 |
20 Jan |
| ABS |
Provisional Mortality Statistics, January to September 2022 |
24 Jan |
| AIHW |
Health of Veterans (update) |
24 Jan |
| ABS |
Labour Force, Detailed, December 2022 |
25 Jan |
| ABS |
Monthly Consumer Price Index indicator, December 2022 |
25 Jan |
| ABS |
Consumer Price Index, December Quarter 2022 |
25 Jan |
| ABS |
Producer Price Indexes, December 2022 |
27 Jan |
| ABS |
International Trade Price Indexes, December 2022 |
27 Jan |
| ABS |
Retail Trade, December 2022 |
31 Jan |
(a) Department of Jobs and Skills Australia. Note: Release dates may be subject to change without notice.
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Recent reports
Labour hire work is characterised by a third-party arrangement, where there is both:
- an employment relationship between an individual employee and a labour hire firm, and
- a commercial arrangement between the labour hire firm and another business for the supply of the individual employee’s labour, for a fee.
In June 2022, there were 319,900 people employed in the Labour supply services industry. This represented 2.3% of all employed people.
Employment in Labour supply services increased from 257,300 in June 2012 to 354,700 in March 2020. In line with overall employment, there was a large decrease in June 2020 in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Employment in Labour supply services has not recovered to its pre-pandemic peak.
Authors: Sarah Cameron (Griffith University), Simon Jackman (University of Sydney), Ian McAllister and Jill Sheppard (The Australian National University)
This report presents findings from the 2022 Australian Election Study (AES), the 13th in this series of election surveys. The AES surveyed a nationally representative sample of 2,508 voters after the 2022 Australian federal election to find out what shaped their choices in the election.
- A majority of voters (53%) cast their ballots based on policy issues, down from 66% in 2019.
- The most important issues in the election identified by voters included the cost of living (32%), environmental issues (17%), management of the economy (15%), and health (14%).
- Most Teal voters were not ‘disaffected Liberals’, but tactical Labor and Greens voters. Less than one in five Teal voters previously voted for the Coalition.
- Men were more likely to vote for the Coalition than women (men: 38%; women: 32%). Women were more likely than men to vote for Labor and the Greens. This represents a longer-term reversal of the gender gap in voter behaviour–since the 1990s women have shifted to the left and men to the right in their party preferences.
Further reading: Results from the Australian Election Study 1987–2022
Commenced in 2001, the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey is a nationally representative longitudinal study of Australian households. As of December 2021, 20 waves (years) are available to researchers, while this year sees the collection of the 22nd wave.
This report presents brief statistical analyses of the first 20 waves of the study, which were conducted between 2001 and 2020. An important theme of this year’s report is how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted life in Australia in 2020.
According to the report:
- Just under half of Australians (45%) said the pandemic made their lives worse. Unemployed people, people with disability or mental health concerns, and people who are extroverted were the most likely to feel their lives were much worse because of the pandemic.
- The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic saw the biggest rise in job insecurity in 20 years, as nearly 1 in 20 workers (4.5%) reported losing their job nationally, with even more in Victoria (5.3%). Almost 1 in 10 Australian workers (9.6%) were stood down without pay.
- Before 2020, 6% of Australians reported working mostly from home, and a vast majority of those workers (80%) were self-employed. In 2020, however, there was a marked increase in the proportion of employed persons working from home. According to HILDA, the proportions of employed persons working ‘mostly from home’ in September 2020 and December 2020 were 30.6% and 27.4%.
- The worsening national trend of declining mental health was accelerated by the onset of COVID-19, with the sharpest falls seen in our younger age groups, those aged 15-24 and 25-34. Working from home and the loss of social support and connections were major factors responsible for the worsening mental health of Australians.
Interested in finding out what the latest statistics are telling us about the Australian economy and population? Each month the Parliamentary Library publishes a Flag Post article listing new reports on a wide variety of topics. The list includes important upcoming ABS releases and other research organisations and government departments.