The ABS Survey of Employment and Unemployment Patterns

Abstract

This paper outlines the main features of the recent longitudinal survey that should provide a valuable information base for study of the Australian labour market.

Is a Risk Index Approach to Unemployment Possible?

“…The Table 3 results have been derived using a sample pooled across male and female labour market participants. A test of whether it was valid to pool the data in this manner was conducted, and support for pooling in the current study was 7 For more information on the SEUP, see ABS (1997aABS ( , 1997b and Le and Miller (1998). 8 Various tests were considered to ascertain whether this constituted a problem.…”

“…18 Much of the forecasting success of the model is due to the inclusion of the information on employment history. Le and Miller (2000) compare the relative performances of conventional and inertia models using a number of criteria. when this type of approach was ¢rst proposed in 1985.…”

Learning from Other Economies: The Unique Institutional and Policy Experiments Down Under

“…For its part, Australia has an excellent body of statistics for analysis of the labour market, ranging from cross‐section surveys to longitudinal surveys (Le & Miller, 1998; Marks & Rothman, 2003), including a unique longitudinal survey of immigrants (Cobb‐Clark, 2001), workplace surveys (Hawke & Wooden, 1997), time‐use surveys, regular Censuses (Flatau, 1997), input output tables (Gretton, 2005), the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey (Watson & Wooden, 2004) and so on. If the Australian Social Science Data Archive (http://assda.anu.edu.au/index.html) or the Australian Statistical Bureau were to make these files readily downloadable on the Web, it would attract international research attention, to the benefit of Australian social science and policy‐makers and social science broadly.…”

The HILDA Survey and its Contribution to Economic and Social Research (So Far)*

“…2 Developing an understanding of the dynamics of change among individuals and households requires longitudinal designs that follow the same units over time. Longitudinal data collections, especially once they mature, are particularly valuable for 1 These two studies are the Survey of Employment and Unemployment Patterns, a household survey with a focus on job seekers and labour market programs that was conducted over three successive years, 1995 to 1997 (see Le and Miller, 1998), and the Business Longitudinal Survey, a survey of business units that ran for four years beginning in 1994-1995 (see Hawke, 2000). 2 Repeated cross-sections do provide information on group dynamics, although even then analyses will be affected by changes in the composition of groups over time.…”

“…1 1 These two studies are the Survey of Employment and Unemployment Patterns, a household survey with a focus on job seekers and labour market programs that was conducted over three successive years, 1995 to 1997 (see Le and Miller, 1998), and the Business Longitudinal Survey, a survey of business units that ran for four years beginning in 1994–1995 (see Hawke, 2000). …”