Australia Yearbook - 2001

230 Year Book Australia 2001
6.23 EMPLOYED PERSONS BY INDUSTRY(a), Annual Average(b)—1999–2000
Males Females Persons
No.
Proportion
employed
Industry
’000
% ’000
% ’000
%
Agriculture, forestry and fishing 302.7 6.0 134.9 3.5 437.5 4.9
Mining 69.0 1.4 9.2 0.2 78.2 0.9
Manufacturing 812.2 16.2 300.9 7.8 1 113.1 12.5
Electricity, gas and water supply 52.9 1.1 11.6 0.3 64.5 0.7
Construction 609.6 12.2 85.8 2.2 695.4 7.8
Wholesale trade 341.7 6.8 153.3 4.0 494.9 5.6
Retail trade 643.4 12.8 681.2 17.6 1 324.6 14.9
Accommodation, cafes and restaurants 192.5 3.8 240.3 6.2 432.8 4.9
Transport and storage 308.7 6.2 98.6 2.5 407.3 4.6
Communication services 114.3 2.3 55.0 1.4 169.3 1.9
Finance and insurance 145.9 2.9 181.6 4.7 327.5 3.7
Property and business services 552.3 11.0 436.4 11.3 988.7 11.1
Government administration and defence 190.0 3.8 155.8 4.0 345.8 3.9
Education 197.4 3.9 411.9 10.6 609.3 6.9
Health and community services 175.6 3.5 652.5 16.8 828.1 9.3
Cultural and recreational services 116.7 2.3 100.4 2.6 217.1 2.4
Personal and other services 184.0 3.7 168.3 4.3 352.3 4.0
No.
Proportion
employed
No.
Proportion
employed
All industries 5 008.8 100.0 3 877.7 100.0 8 886.5 100.0
(a) Classified according to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC). (b) Annual average of
quarterly data.
Source: Labour Force Survey.
Table 6.24 and graph 6.25 provide a view of the
distribution of employee jobs between the private
and public sectors, and across the States and
Territories. These statistics are obtained from the
quarterly Survey of Employment and Earnings, a
survey of employing businesses. They are
complementary to, but not compatible with,
estimates of employed persons from the
household-based Labour Force Survey. While the
latter provides a better indicator of overall
employment movements at the Australian and
State/Territory levels, the former provides
dissections by sector.
6.24 EMPLOYEE JOBS, Private/Public Sector—February 2000
NSW
Vic.
Qld
Sector
’000 ’000 ’000 ’000 ’000 ’000 ’000 ’000 ’000
Private 1 905.3 1 545.0 1 016.3 420.3 575.3 118.8 52.8 83.0 5 716.9
Public
Commonwealth 69.5 55.3 31.7 16.2 16.9 5.7 3.2 50.6 249.2
State 340.0 216.5 226.3 87.1 116.5 29.6 16.1 17.1 1 049.2
Local 44.6 32.1 34.7 7.9 13.6 3.8 2.7 . . 139.4
Total 454.1 303.8 292.7 111.2 147.1 39.1 22.0 67.7 1 437.8
Total 2 359.4 1 848.9 1 309.1 531.5 722.4 157.9 74.8 150.7 7 154.7
Source: Wage and Salary Earners, Australia (6248.0).
SA
WA
Tas.
NT
ACT
Aust.