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of statistical tables of employment related data that are consistent with the
ASNA.
The ILO describes two approaches to compiling a labour account: a cross-
sectional approach involving confrontation and reconciliation of key labour
market measures, and a longitudinal approach which incorporates changes to
population and labour force via births, deaths, and net migration, and includes
measures such as duration of employment. The Australian Labour Account
focuses on the cross-sectional approach (since this is the approach that
supports data confrontation and reconciliation), and also provides a time
series dimension.
The Australian Labour Account helps address data coherence by:
 bringing together related labour statistics from multiple sources in a
single set of tables;
 applying a consistent set of concepts across the data to explore
statistical anomalies;
 making transparent adjustments to data to offset conceptual and
scope differences; and
 making further informed and documented data adjustments to
provide a balanced set of labour statistics.

2. Methodology
Conceptual Framework
The Australian Labour Account consists of four distinct quadrants: jobs,
persons, volume and payments (see Figure One). Data are available quarterly
for 19 high level industry groupings, and annually for 86 detailed industry
groups.

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