January employment data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics
Employment Change -7.9K
- expected +13.0K, prior -0.8K revised from -1.0K
Unemployment Rate 6.0%
- expected 5.8%, prior 5.8%
Full Time Employment Change -40.6K
- prior was +17.6K
Part Time Employment Change +32.7K
- prior was -18.5K
Participation Rate 65.2%
- expected is 65.2%, prior was 65.1%
Yo - a softer job report. On the positive side all those whining about how the ABS gets the data wrong will be a little quieter after this, finally the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirming their bias view :-D
more to come
