Datasets for Statistical Analysis

Unemployment in Australia

Keywords:

jobs

Categories:

time series;
social

Description:

The data give the total number of Australian receiving unemployment benefits each month from Jan 1956 to Jul 1992.

There are 439 observations.

Variables:

Year	The year, from 1956 to 1992
Month	The month, coded as 1 for January to 12 for December
People	The total number of people receiving unemployment benefits each month

Data Quality:

There are no missing values.

Source:

Hyndman, R.J. (n.d.) Time Series Data Library, Accessed on 02 March 2007.

Notes:

References:

Australian Bureau of Statistics Time Series Catalogue 1311.0