The Australian workforce is employed across 19 broad (1 digit) industries as defined in the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) 2006, developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Statistics New Zealand.
You can select any of these 19 industries from the left hand navigation menu and view essential data on employment characteristics, trends and prospects and links to skills-related information.
Industry Outlooks
provide detailed analysis of employment characteristics, trends and prospects by industry, and highlight specific sectors where job growth is the strongest. Specific issues highlighted in these outlooks include workforce ageing, employment share by gender, educational profile, weekly earnings, average hours worked, regional and occupational employment.
The left navigation bar also provides access to the Industry Profiles. These profiles offer a large array of statistical information in graphical form for both broad and specific (ANZSIC 3 digit) industries. The data are presented in easy to use, customised Excel workbooks and cover:
- recent employment trends
- projected job growth
- workforce ageing
- gender and full-time/part-time
- earnings
- educational profile
- employment by region and main occupations
Scroll down for a 'snapshot' of recent and projected employment for all broad industries in an easily comparable summary form.
The following shows trend employment growth to February 2010 for all industry groups over the past five years, as well as future employment projections for 2014-15.
Source: DEEWR Trend Data based on ABS Labour Force, Australia, Cat no: 6291.0.55.003-Quarterly - February 2010