SA jobless rate climbs as national rate steady

Australian Bureau of Statistics information launched immediately exhibits South Australia’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment fee for September was 4.3 per cent – up from 3.9 per cent in August.

The nationwide unemployment fee remained unchanged at 3.5 per cent.

The state’s underemployment fee, which measures part-time employees who need extra hours and full-time employees who didn’t work full-time hours, marginally elevated by 0.2 factors to six.8 per cent.

The variety of employed folks in South Australia fell 1 per cent from 893,500 to 884,800 – the biggest proportion fall within the nation.

South Australia’s participation fee, which measures the share of individuals both in work or in search of it, dropped to 62.7 per cent – down from 63.1 per cent in August.

The nationwide participation fee remained unchanged at 66.6 per cent.

South Australia’s 4.3 per cent unemployment fee is now joint-highest within the nation. Tasmania, which beforehand had the standalone highest-rate at 5 per cent, recorded a 0.7-point drop in unemployment for September.

The Northern Territory’s unemployment fee additionally improved from 4.5 per cent in August to 4 per cent in September.

South Australia’s common jobless fee this yr is 4.5 per cent, reaching a excessive of 5 per cent in February and a low of three.9 per cent in August.

Nationally, about 900 jobs have been added for the month in comparison with 33,500 in August.

“With employment growing barely, by round 1000 folks, and the variety of unemployed growing by 9000, the unemployment fee rose by lower than 0.1 proportion level however remained at 3.5 per cent in rounded phrases,” ABS head of labour statistics Bjorn Jarvis stated.

The ACT holds the bottom unemployment fee within the nation (3.1 per cent), adopted by New South Wales (3.3 per cent) Western Australia (3.4 per cent) and Victoria (3.5 per cent).

– With AAP