Unemployment February

This graph shows the Unemployment and Employment changes for the 12 months ended February 2010.

Both the Trend and Seasonally adjusted figures are shown in the graph, but only the trend data is shown below.

The “original” data, before adjustments are made for season change expectations, show a different figure, and these figures are shown after the graph.

February 2010 Unemployment in Australia

Data taken from the Australian Bureau of Statistics:

The number of Full time employed people in Australia rose by 45,123 from 7,655,080 in January 2010 to 7,700,203 in February 2010 in ‘Original data’ figures. An increase of 0.59%.

The number of Full time employed people in Australia rose by 11,438 from 7,648,303 in January 2010 to 7,659,741 in February 2010 in Seasonally adjusted figures. An increase of 0.15%.

More statistics available at:  Britzinoz – Unemployment