Unemployment virtually unchanged in October at 12.8% - but up 2.5% to 14.6% in locked down Victoria

November 06 2020
Finding No. 8562
Topic: Press Release Unemployment

This Roy Morgan survey on Australia’s unemployment and ‘under-employed’* is based on weekly face-to-face interviews of 714,047 Australians aged 14 and over between January 2007 and October 2020 and includes 6,136 telephone and online interviews in October 2020.

Unemployment is high for all age groups – not just under 35 year olds targeted by Federal Government assistance

October 14 2020
Finding No. 8539
Topic: Press Release Unemployment
Country: Australia

Source: Roy Morgan Single Source September 2020, n=6,092. Base: Australians aged 14+.

Roy Morgan September Unemployment - 12.9%

Roy Morgan Unemployment down in Sept. to 12.9% - lowest in two most open States of NSW and SA

October 04 2020
Finding No. 8532
Topic: Press Release Unemployment

This Roy Morgan survey on Australia’s unemployment and ‘under-employed’* is based on weekly face-to-face interviews of 707,911 Australians aged 14 and over between January 2007 and September 2020, and includes 6,092 telephone and online interviews in September 2020.

Roy Morgan Unemployment in August up to 1.98 million (13.8%) – largest increases in ‘hard border’ states of Queensland, WA and Tasmania

September 04 2020
Finding No. 8512
Topic: Press Release Unemployment
Country: Australia

Source: Roy Morgan Single Source January 2019 – August 2020. Average monthly interviews 4,000. Note: Roy Morgan unemployment estimates are actual data while the ABS estimates are seasonally adjusted.

Australian Unemployment at 12.5% in July

Unemployment drops to under 2 million in July as economy re-opens

July 31 2020
Finding No. 8483
Topic: Press Release Unemployment
Country: Australia

Source: Roy Morgan Single Source January 2019 – July 2020. Average monthly interviews 4,000. Note: Roy Morgan unemployment estimates are actual data while the ABS estimates are seasonally adjusted.

Over 2 million Australians still unemployed in June, down 42,000 on May

July 02 2020
Finding No. 8453
Topic: Press Release Unemployment
Country: Australia

Source: Roy Morgan Single Source January 2019 – June 2020. Average monthly interviews 4,000.

2.09 million Australians unemployed in May, down 69,000 on April

June 04 2020
Finding No. 8423
Topic: Press Release Unemployment
Country: Australia

Source: Roy Morgan Single Source January 2019 – May 2020. Average monthly interviews 4,000.

794,000 businesses affected by casual employee ruling

June 03 2020
Finding No. 8427
Topic: Press Release Morgan Poll Review Unemployment
Country: Australia

Source: Roy Morgan Special Snap SMS Poll of Australian businesses on May 30-31, 2020, n=881. Base: Australian businesses. *Total Yes includes those answering effect of Federal Court’s ruling would be either: Business will be forced to close, Large financial impact or it will deter from hiring casual employees.

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.