Australia Yearbook - 2001

218 Year Book Australia 2001
Table 6.7 provides an overview of labour force
status of persons at June 2000, according to the
family relationship within households. Notable
features include: for couple families with
dependants present, 84.6% of husbands were
employed full-time, compared with 26.1% of
wives (with a further 35.1% of wives employed
part-time). For lone parents with dependants,
52.7% of male lone parents were employed
full-time compared with 23.1% of female lone
parents. The unemployment rate for lone parents
was higher than for husbands or wives.
6.6 CIVILIAN LABOUR FORCE, By Birthplace, Annual Average—1999–2000
Employed Unemployed
Full-time
workers
Total
Looking
for
full-time
work
’000 ’000 ’000 ’000 ’000
%
%
Born in Australia 4 900.3 6 720.0 357.6 487.5 7 207.4 6.8 67.0
Born outside Australia
Main English-speaking countries 733.6 948.2 45.9 59.1 1 007.3 5.9 64.6
Other countries 952.5 1 248.4 88.0 114.8 1 363.1 8.4 54.0
Oceania 223.4 283.2 17.9 23.0 306.2 7.5 74.0
Europe and the former USSR 856.6 1 121.2 57.9 72.8 1 194.0 6.1 53.3
The Middle East and North Africa 68.5 90.2 10.5 13.2 103.4 12.8 49.8
South-East Asia 204.4 263.5 23.4 30.1 293.5 10.2 61.2
North-East Asia 105.1 142.8 6.4 9.6 152.4 6.3 54.8
Northern America 38.4 49.4 2.2 3.0 52.4 5.8 72.7
Other 189.7 246.3 15.6 22.1 268.5 8.2 68.3
Total born outside Australia 1 686.1 2 196.6 133.9 173.9 2 370.5 7.3 58.1
Total
Total
labour
force
Unemployment
rate
Participation
rate(a)
Total 6 586.4 8 916.6 491.5 661.4 9 577.9 6.9 64.6
(a) Participation rate calculated using population estimates which exclude those in institutions.
Source: Labour Force Survey.