DEEWR Monthly Leading Indicator of Employment April 2010

Date published : 8  April  2010 

DEEWR's Monthly Leading Indicator of Employment (Indicator) has fallen for the third consecutive month in April 2010, following a previous rise of seven consecutive months. However, it is still too early to confirm that a slowing in the pace of employment growth below its long-term trend rate of 1.9 per cent per annum is in prospect, because the Indicator has fallen for fewer than six consecutive months. In contrast, cyclical employment troughed six months ago, after previously falling for seventeen consecutive months.

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