Australia Yearbook - 2009-10

8.16 TYPES OF EMPLOYMENT, Proportion of employed
Employees with paid leave entitlements
Employees(a) without paid leave entitlements
Owner managers of incorporated enterprises
Owner managers of unincorporated enterprises
%
80
60
40
20
0
1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008
August
(a) Excluding owner managers of incorporated enterprises.
Source: Australian Labour Market Statistics, Datacubes, Table 2 (6105.0).
employees with paid leave entitlements increased
by four percentage points, to stand at 63% at
August 2008 (graph 8.16). Employees without
paid leave entitlements rose as a proportion of
total employment from 1994 to 1998 (from 18%
to 20%). Since 1998 the proportion has remained
relatively stable. As a proportion of total
employment, owner managers remained stable
between 1994 and 2007, but fell slightly in 2008.
Of total employment, the proportion of owner
managers of incorporated enterprises increased
from 5% in 1994 to 7% in 2006 and back to 6% in
2008, while over the same period owner
managers of unincorporated enterprises fell from
15% to 11%. Owner managers of incorporated
enterprises as a proportion of all owner managers
increased from 25% in 1994 to 34% in 2008.
Hours worked
Hours worked statistics have a wide range of
uses, including the calculation of labour
productivity and monitoring of working
conditions. Information on hours worked allows
the ABS to classify employed people as full time
or part time, and also to identify underemployed
people (in conjunction with information about
wanting to work more hours).
The LFS collects weekly hours worked data for
employed people on three different bases:
• actual hours worked in all jobs – hours
actually worked in the survey reference week,
including overtime and excluding time off
• actual hours worked in main job – hours
actually worked in the survey reference week
(including overtime and excluding any time
off) in the job in which the most hours are
usually worked
• usual hours worked in all jobs – hours usually
worked per week by an employed person.
Data for the latter two measures are available
from April 2001, while the first measure has been
collected since the LFS began in the 1960s.
In addition to the three reference week measures
outlined above, the ABS also produces an
aggregate monthly hours worked series, which
measures the total number of hours worked by
employed persons in a calendar month.
Graph 8.17 shows average weekly hours worked
for employed people for each of the three
measures. Average weekly hours worked is the
hours worked by employed people during the
reference week divided by the number of
employed people.
The two average weekly hours actually worked
measures are influenced by seasonal factors
(e.g. customs in taking leave at particular times of
the year), economic factors
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