Skip to main content

Australian Labor Force Visualisation

Think the public service is bloated or that small business is the backbone of Australia? Look here.

Sources:


Notes:

The "not participating in the labor force" category is derived by subtracting the total employed and unemployed from the total civilian population aged 15 and over. 

Based on data from the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO), large businesses (those with 200 or more employees) employed 4,376,000 people as of June 2023. This figure represents roughly 34% of the total private sector workforce and was used to derive the number employed in Large Businesses.

The "Other Businesses" category is derived by subtracting the number of people employed by large businesses and all public sector employees from the total employed population. Large businesses are defined as those with 200 or more employees, based on data from the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO).

Because the data was collected at different time periods, the proportions are slightly out. e.g. July 2025's unemployment rate is actually 4.2%.

Visualisation and data collection by Google Gemini. Sanity-checked by human.

Labels:
Location: Canberra ACT, Australia

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Staying For the Kids

Will having children make marriages last? Children, it is supposed, so enrich a marriage that it is more likely to endure over time. They bring a unique stimulus, necessitate close teamwork, and foster intimate communication. While some would argue that they could seek such stimuli elsewhere, and others would say that they can do without that sort of personal development, the naysayers are not strong enough to displace a nuclear family ideal that has persisted despite change in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Post a Comment
Read more

Do Pensions Cause Inflation? πŸ“ˆ

It's not the size, it's the growth. As the world ages, it's worth wondering if retiree benefits will increasingly drive inflation through supporting elderly buying power and enabling them to exit the labour supply. Let's plot pension replacement rates , a measure of pension generosity, against 2023 inflation for the G20, the world's largest economies. In short, countries' circumstances and systems are too diverse for a strong relationship between pension generosity and inflation, but let's break it down further.
Post a Comment
Read more

Barbarians at the Gate

Invaders don't win. Defenders lose. If we're fretting about our own Golden Age falling to usurpers, let us remember that barbarians don't operate in a vacuum. The Khwarazmian (Persian) Empire was corrupt and rife with elite infighting before the Mongols arrived. 
Post a Comment
Read more