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ABS April Unemployment estimate doesn’t reflect reality. ABS claims 594,000 lose their jobs but only 104,000 become unemployed (?!?)

May 15 2020
Finding No. 8411
Topic: Press Release Morgan Poll Review Unemployment
Country: Australia

Yesterday the ABS released its April employment estimates. The ABS estimate 12,419,000 Australians were employed in April, down 594,000 on March. There were sharp falls for both full-time and part-time employed.

2.16 million Australians (15.3% of the workforce) out of work in April – down 248,000 on late March as JobKeeper stops the rise in unemployment

May 01 2020
Finding No. 8393
Topic: Press Release Unemployment
Country: Australia

Source: Roy Morgan Single Source October 2005 – April 2020. Average monthly interviews 4,000.

Australian Real Unemployment - March 2020

ABS March Unemployment figures are misleading - because second half of March ignored! By Gary Morgan, Michele Levine and Julian McCrann

April 17 2020
Finding No. 8376
Topic: Press Release Public Opinion Unemployment Morgan Poll Review
Country: Australia

For the record, the ABS unemployment estimates are always lower than those of Roy Morgan because ABS employs a more ‘restrictive’ definition of ‘unemployment’. The early March data is no different - for the first half of March the ABS estimate of 5.2% is lower than Roy Morgan’s estimate of 7.3%.

Extra 1.4 million Australians out of work in wake of COVID-19 pandemic – 3.92 million (27.4% of workforce) now unemployed or under-employed

April 08 2020
Finding No. 8363
Topic: Press Release Unemployment
Country: Australia

This Roy Morgan survey on Australia’s unemployment and ‘under-employed’* is based on weekly face-to-face interviews of 671,486 Australians aged 14 and over between January 2007 and March 2020, and includes 5,950 face-to-face, telephone and online interviews in March 2020 including 2,951 face-to-face interviews in the first half of March until March 15 and 2,999 interviews conducted online and via telephone for the second half after March 15.

Nev Power’s COVID-19 Commission must rely on the more sensitive and accurate Roy Morgan unemployment measure rather than the Government’s seasonally adjusted ABS estimate

March 26 2020
Finding No. 8353
Topic: Unemployment Public Opinion Press Release
Country: Australia

The new Federal Government mandated National COVID-19 Coordination Commission headed by Nev Power is designed to mitigate the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure employment opportunities are available for these workers now, and for workers when normality returns.