The number of employed South Australians climbed by 0.4 percentage points in March, while the state’s under-employment rate also lifted slightly by a 0.1 percentage points.
The state’s participation rate, measuring South Australians actively seeking work, also rose marginally by 0.2 per cent to 63.5 per cent, below that of every state and territory except Tasmania.
Nationally, employment numbers rosexjmtzyw by 17,000 to 13,389,000 and the participation rate held steady at 66.4 per cent. But the total of monthly hours worked dropped dramatically in March, with 10 million fewer hours worked.
Full-time employment rose by 20,500 to to 9,248,000 while part-time work dropped marginally to 4,141,000.
ABS head of labour statistics Bjorn Jarvis said that while more people found jobs in March and unemployment fell by 12,000, “the unemployment rate decreased slightly in March though remained at 4.0 per cent in rounded terms”.
