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Job advertisement series

The ANZ job advertisement series measures the number of jobs advertised in the major daily newspapers and Internet sites covering the capital cities each month.

It has historically proved to be a very good indicator of future labour market conditions and thus, is extensively relied upon for forecasting employment growth.

The April 2003 edition of the Australian Bureau of Statistics publication, Australian Labour Market Statistics (catalogue no. 6105.0), presents the results of an analysis of leading indicators of employment growth over the period 1984 to 2002.

While most of this analysis focuses on the ABS' own job vacancies series, the study also concludes that ANZ (newspaper) job advertisement series leads peaks in employment growth by one to three quarters, and troughs in employment by zero to two quarters. The ABS analysis finds that the ANZ job advertisement series has a correlation coefficient of 0.75 with employment growth at a lead period of three quarters.

In this presentation, given to the PANPA newspaper advertising forum in April 2005, economist Katie Dean overviews the history and success of the ANZ job advertisement series and considers recent challenges the series has faced.

ANZ Job Advertisements - Release Dates 2009
For data covering: ANZ release dates
December 2008 Mon 12 January 2009
January 2009 Mon 9 February 2009
February 2009 Tue 10 March 2009
March 2009 Mon 6 April 2009
April 2009 Mon 4 May 2009
May 2009 Tue 9 June 2009
June 2009 Mon 6 July 2009
July 2009 Mon 3 August 2009
August 2009 Mon 7 September 2009
September 2009 Mon 5 October 2009
October 2009 Mon 9 November 2009
November 2009 Mon 7 December 2009

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