The ABS will be launching it's new website next Monday (21 September 2020). This issue of Labour Force, Australia will be the last released to the current website, with next Thursday's detailed labour force release to be published on the new website. As a result of the switch-over to the new website, the ABS website (and ABS Beta website) is expected to be unavailable between 11am and 1pm on Saturday 19 September.

As previously advised, as part of this move to a new ABS website the Labour Force Survey releases are being redesigned (see the New ABS website and changes to Labour Force Survey publications note for more information on the design and content). On the new ABS website, there will now be two labour force releases (previously three) of monthly Labour Force Survey data:

Labour Force, Australia - which will continue to be the headline release (see of Labour Force, Australia on the ABS Beta website to see what it will look like)

Labour Force, Australia, Detailed - which will contain all spreadsheets and pivot tables currently published in both the monthly and quarterly detailed releases (see Labour Force, Australia, Detailed on the ABS Beta website to see what it will look like)

At all points during the transition abs.gov.au will remain your official source of statistics. However, other URL's within the website will be changing so bookmarks will need to be updated. Catalogue numbers will also no longer appear in release titles on the new website, however you will still be able to search for content using catalogue numbers. For a short transition period, all releases will include a note indicating the catalogue number the release was previously published under.

See Welcome to the new ABS website for more information about the new ABS website and the changes that have been made.