The Job Markets Australia online database was researched and written by Rodney Stinson, who has spent more than 45 years in researching occupations and analyzing employment, earnings and labour market trends. For 36 years he has worked in his own labour market consultancy.
The occupations in the database are coded to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ own revised Occupation Experimental Update version 1 (OCCEV1P), which is based on the 1st edition of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) Dictionary, revision 1.2. The job duties as set out in the Bureau’s own update are cited in Job Markets Australia. The Bureau’s website advises, “This was a targeted update limited to occupations relating to agriculture, cyber security, naval ship building and emerging occupations and relates to the Australian labour market only. The ANZSCO - Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations, 2021 represents the 2021 Australian update.” For more details, go to www.abs.gov.au and type “OCCEV1P” in the Search function.
An extremely large amount of cross-tabulated data from the 2021 Population Census was acquired as commissioned tables from the Bureau or produced through the TableBuilder facility on its website. Wherever possible, cross-tabulated tables were obtained at the most detailed level for occupation, industry, age, working hours, employment status, gender, and related data sets. It is best practice in occupational research to rely on the most recent Census for statistics on detailed occupations and cross-tabulations. Such statistics are fully reliable because they are counts which are collected to high standards. The Census statistics are used to provide benchmarks for subsequent survey-based estimates in the Labour Force and other series. It is worth noting that such benchmarks are revised about two years after the Census.
Job Markets Australia is heavily dependent on the published and unpublished statistics of the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Relevant time-series and tabular data from its Labour Force survey, supplementary surveys and other collections are obtained, analysed, and interpreted for each annual update in the Job Markets Australia series. In addition to drawing on the comprehensive statistical data published on the Bureau’s www.abs.gov.au website, this also entails use of the TableBuilder facility and commissioned unpublished tables on key topics such as mean and median earnings by unit group occupation in the Characteristics of Employment survey.
The Bureau’s original statistics are seldom quoted in Job Markets Australia, as they have generally been extensively analyzed and transformed. The overriding goal for the research and analysis work was to establish for each of the ANZSCO occupations what it had in common with other occupations and the characteristics that were unique or shared with only some occupations.
Not all information fields in Job Markets Australia rely on the Bureau’s data. Content that is evaluative or descriptive is the result of Rodney Stinson’s assessments, or it shows the results of local studies commissioned by Yorkcross Pty Ltd on the topics in question, or it conveys the O*NET® findings on skills, abilities, and knowledge (see below for additional details). It must be emphasized that, over and above the lengthy statistical and other research, Job Markets Australia is reliant on Rodney Stinson’s labour market knowledge and understanding. He has made every effort to ensure the analysis, assessments and ratings are objective and accurate. As he is not allied to any stakeholders or lobby-groups, whether in the education and training, industries, unions or other bodies, the online database serves as an independent source of information.
Rodney Stinson created the crosswalk between the O*NET-SOC codes and the ANZSCO occupations, and he acknowledges that, from the 2023-2024 issue onwards, he also compared his matches to those in the “ANZSCO, 2013 Version 1.2 to O*NET-SOC 2019 Taxonomy Correspondence” file previously located on the http://labourmarketinsights.gov.au website. The O*NET® skills, abilities and knowledge included in Job Markets Australia should be used as a guide to their relative importance and level in the ANZSCO occupation/s of interest.
Job Markets Australia has been designed to assist individuals, organizations, and others to understand the issues and to make informed decisions with respect to preparation for, and participation in, the labour market. Before decisions are made and acted on, Yorkcross Pty Ltd and Rodney Stinson would advise individuals, organizations and others accessing the database or with access to database Reports (or extracts from database Reports) to verify or corroborate from other sources and authorities the relevance and accuracy of the assessments, analysis and ratings in Job Markets Australia.
For further information about the database contents: go to the Information Paper
For further information about the earnings figures: go to the Average Weekly Full-time Earnings by Occupation and Age-group Methodology and Uses
For a full list of Regional and Local Labour Markets with Jobs : go to the Regional and Local Labour Markets
For further information about the average retirement age estimates: go to Average Retirement Age by ANZSCO Occupation Methodology
For further information about the Highest Level of Schooling by Occupation and Age estimates: go to Highest Level of Schooling by Occupation and Age
For further information about the Post-School Qualifications by Occupation and Age estimates: go to Post-School Qualifications by Occupation and Age
A summary of duties for each occupation is shown in the Report Manager of the database on www.jobmarkets.com.au and prints with the Report. You can obtain a fuller description of job duties and other details from the ANZSCO Dictionary and revision or view the job titles and summary duties for all occupations Summary of Job Duties (ANZSCO revision 1.2)
For further information about the New Occupations and Code Changes in Job Markets Australia: go to New Occupations and Code Changes in Job Markets Australia
The Australian Bureau of Statistics retains the copyright on the ANZSCO Dictionary, its revision, and the meta-data extracts of job duties, titles and codes printed in Reports from this website. The Bureau permits their use here and your own use through the Creative Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
In Job Markets Australia there is an option to include the O*NET® skills, abilities, and knowledge data for a particular occupation. To components of those data are added percentage analyses for their relative importance and level, utilizing formulae obtained from the www.onetcenter.org website. The U.S.A. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration developed, maintains and has copyright ownership of the O*NET® database and associated resources, allowing public domain use with acknowledgement.
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