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Australians working overtime


Keywords:
employment; working; overtime
Description:
The data report on number of days worked, the proportion working overtime (paid and unpaid), and proportion of people who have no say in working hours.
Information:
The data give a (relative frequency) bar chart of the number of days worked per week for Australian workers, and a histogram of the percentage of people in various age-groups who have no say in their working hours. Other information on percent working overtime is embedded in the article.
Source:
The Australian newspaper, 30 May 2007.
Notes:
The article claims the data come from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, so they should be reliable (if faithfully reported!), although no details of the sampling are noted.
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