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Subjects > Labour compensation & Hours Worked > Australia
Country: Australia Subject: Hours
| AUS.HO....... | Direct source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (http://abs.gov.au/).
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Country: Australia Subject: Hours > Hours worked > Manufacturing
| AUS.HOHWMN....... | Name of collection/source
Data are compiled from the results of the monthly Labour Force Survey. See Civilian Employment.
Source Periodicity
Annual data are average of quarterly figures.
Sector coverage
The series refers to actual weekly hours worked in the manufacturing industry.
Key statistical concept
The current weekly hours worked series is based on information about hours worked in the reference week and about usual hours. Full-time workers are defined as those who worked full time in the reference week or who usually worked full time.
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Country: Australia Subject: Labour compensation
| AUS.LC....... | Direct source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (http://abs.gov.au/).
Classification(s) used
Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) 2006.
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Country: Australia Subject: Labour compensation > Earnings
| AUS.LCEA....... | Reference period
Reference period for the AWE survey refers to the last pay period ending on or before the third Friday of the middle month of the quarter.
Key statistical concept
Data represent average (before taxation) weekly earnings of employees. Included are weekly overtime earnings, bargaining payments, and other agreed base rates of pay, over award and overagreed payments, penalty payments, shift and other allowances; commissions and retainers; bonuses; payments under incentive or piecework; payments under profit sharing schemes; payment for leave; all workers' compensation payments made through the payroll and salary payments made to directors. Excluded are retrospective pay, pay in advance, leave loadings, severance, termination and redundancy payments.
Estimation
Data are obtained by dividing weekly total earnings by the number of employees.
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Country: Australia Subject: Labour compensation > Earnings > Manufacturing
| AUS.LCEAMN....... | Population coverage
Full-time adult employees are covered.
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Country: Australia Subject: Labour compensation > Earnings > Manufacturing > Hourly
| AUS.LCEAMN01....... | Direct source
Data refers to subject Labour Compensation > Earnings > Manufacturing > Weekly
Item coverage
This indicator is not available for Australia. In order to calculate an area total for this indicator, the series Weekly earnings in the manufacturing industries has been used as a proxy.
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Country: Australia Subject: Labour compensation > Earnings > Private sector
| AUS.LCEAPR....... | Population coverage
Full-time adult employees are covered.
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Country: Australia Subject: Labour compensation > Earnings > All activities
| AUS.LCEATT....... | Population coverage
All employees are covered.
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Country: Australia Subject: Labour compensation > Wage Rate
| AUS.LCWR....... | Sampling
Information is collected each quarter by mail questionnaires from a sample of 3500 employers.
Geographic coverage
Coverage includes all employees in all States and Territories.
Sector coverage
All industries are covered except those primarily engaged in agriculture, forestry and fishing, private household employing staff, overseas embassies, consulates, etc; employees based overseas but paid from Australia, and the Australian defence force.
Population coverage
Effects of changes in penalty payments and allowances are excluded. Full-time, permanent and casual, and managerial and non-managerial jobs are in scope of the index but costs incurred by employers for work undertaken by self-employed persons such as consultants and subcontractors are out of scope. Workers paid commission without a retainer are also excluded.
Key statistical concept
The labour price index measures quarterly changes in the combined ordinary time and overtime hourly wage and salary rates. The definition of earnings follows international recommendations of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Data relate to employees' gross remuneration before any deductions for taxes superannuation and pension schemes, life insurance premiums, union dues, health insurance, etc.
Aggregation and consolidation
The index uses a representative basket of jobs over time and maintains a fixed weighting pattern (i.e. pricing to constant quality). The index is a weighted average of elementary aggregate indexes calculated by multiplying successive quarter-to-quarter ratios of average hourly cost. Average hourly cost is calculated by multiplying each job's hourly rate by its usual weekly hours and sample weight to obtain an estimate of the weekly cost for that job. Weekly costs are then summed over all jobs to get an estimate of the total weekly cost for the population. Estimates of total weekly hours are obtained by summing the product of usual weekly hours and sample weight over all jobs. Average hourly cost is the total weekly cost divided by the total weekly hours.
Other comments
More comprehensive methodological information about the Labour Price Index is available in release 6345.0 in ABS website.
Related Links: Metadata Labour Price Index
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