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Labour Force, Australia, headline series

abs/labour-forceAustralian Bureau of Statistics

Pinned to release rel_01M4KR8AN7CFC4FEH7WR5STNB8, published , which is not the current release. Use the current release

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date

decimal(18,8)

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int32

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string

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The first rows of release rel_01M4KR8AN7CFC4FEH7WR5STNB8
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Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, 4.0. Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Labour Force, Australia, headline series, retrieved 10 Oct 2026. © Commonwealth of Australia. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Changes: Reshaped by OpenDataRouter from the ABS Data API dataflow LF to one row per series and month, persons aged 15 years and over only (the figures by sex are left out); periods typed as dates (the first day of each month) and values as decimals with eight places. Values unchanged.

Cite as: Australian Bureau of Statistics (2026). Labour Force, Australia, headline series [release rel_01M4KR8AN7CFC4FEH7WR5STNB8]. Retrieved 10 Oct 2026 via OpenDataRouter.

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