4.85% Unemployment rate for Australian Full Time Male employment seekers in August 2011.

The seasonally adjusted Australian unemployment rate of 5.28% (a monthly increase of 0.15%) for August 2011, as announced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics is the rate for ALL workers, Full Time and Part Time, Male and Female.
Male Full Time workers had a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.05% while Female Full Time workers had a seasonally adjusted rate of 6.04%.

Australian State Unemployment Rates for Full Time Males in August 2011 vary between 4.27% and 5.68% and are shown in more detail, including 20 year comparisons, on separate pages at the following links:

• 4.27% Western Australia
• 4.45% Victoria
• 4.81% New South Wales
• 5.22% South Australia
• 5.37% Tasmania
• 5.68% Queensland

Unemployment rates released in September 2011 from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, show a change in nationwide unemployment over the last 20 years, for the month of August in each year as:

10.32% Aug-1991
11.61% Aug-1992
11.65% Aug-1993
9.58% Aug-1994
8.52% Aug-1995
8.82% Aug-1996
8.70% Aug-1997
8.04% Aug-1998
6.70% Aug-1999
6.17% Aug-2000
6.87% Aug-2001
5.93% Aug-2002
5.44% Aug-2003
4.84% Aug-2004
4.43% Aug-2005
4.14% Aug-2006
3.33% Aug-2007
3.39% Aug-2008
5.49% Aug-2009
4.38% Aug-2010
4.85% Aug-2011

The time effect of this can be seen in the following graph:

There are three sets of Unemployment rate figures available from the ABS; the Original, the Trend, and the Seasonally adjusted Trend.

The above figures are the original count, as I use them for State comparisons, which are the ones produced in the ABS report: 6202.0 Labour Force, Table 12.

These three types of unemployment rates for Australian Full Time Male employment seekers in August 2011 are:

• 4.80% Trend (Table 01. Labour force status by Sex – Trend)
• 4.85% Original (Table 12. Labour force status by Sex – States and Territories)
• 5.05% Seasonally adjusted (Table 02. Labour force status by Sex – Seasonally adjusted)