National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 22b-Unemployment rate (Survey Data), 2011
Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:
Indicator
Indicator type:
Indicator
Short name:
PI 22b-Unemployment rate (Survey Data), 2011
METeOR identifier:
425799
Registration status:
Indigenous, Archived 01/07/2012
Description:
Proportion of the labour force who are unemployed, aged 15 to 64 years.
Rationale:
Widely used measure of potentially underutilised labour resources in the economy. People who are unemployed for long periods may experience greater financial hardship and may have more difficulties in finding employment because of the loss of relevant skills and employers’ perceptions of their employability.
Crude rates are calculated, including relative standard errors and confidence intervals.
Rate ratios and rate differences are calculated for Indigenous:non-Indigenous.
Presentation: per 100 persons (percentage).
Computation:
100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator).
Numerator:
Number of people unemployed aged 15 to 64 years
Numerator data elements:
Denominator:
Total number of people in the labour force aged 15 to 64 years
Denominator data elements:
Disaggregation:
National and state/territory by Indigenous status.
Disaggregation data elements:
Comments:
Most recent data available for 2011 CRC report: -Main data collection: 2008 NATSISS (Indigenous) and 2008 SEW (non-Indigenous) -Supplementary data collection: 2006 Census
The SEW does not include people living in very remote areas which may affect the comparability of results.
Baseline year for this indicator is 2008; target year is 2018.
