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CPS1499 Hayley Collett
production boundary and residency concepts of the Australian System of
National Accounts. The following scope adjustments are made to Filled Jobs
(household sources) to address LFS scope exclusions:
 add the number of persons employed in the permanent defence forces,
 add the number of child workers,
 add the number of main jobs held by non-resident visitors to Australia,
 add the number of secondary jobs held by non-resident visitors, and
 subtract the number of Australian residents working in Australia for non-
resident enterprises.
In compiling the Labour Account, residual differences remain between the
estimated number of filled jobs based on business sources and those derived
from household sources. These differences remain after making adjustments
for known conceptual and scope differences. They represent measurement
error in the respective sources, and are reflected in the "statistical discrepancy"
series presented in the "unbalanced" data tables. In the balanced tables,
separate business and household estimates have been replaced by a single
"filled jobs" estimate. Consequent adjustments are also made to estimates of
employed persons, hours worked and hours paid for. The harmonised, or
"balanced", filled jobs series are based on a more detailed industry by industry
investigation of the underlying sources of measurement error.

3. Results
Over the past five years health care and social assistance was the fastest
growing industry, and remained the largest contributor to the number of jobs
in the Australian economy. Of the 13.6 million employed people in Australia,
12.6 per cent work in the health care and social assistance industry. Filled jobs
in Australia grew by 3.3 per cent, or 442,700, in 2017-18. The largest
contributor to this increase was health care and social assistance filled jobs,
which rose by 4.7 per cent. 2017-18 was the eighth consecutive year of jobs
growth in this industry.
At the same time, manufacturing filled jobs saw a 1.2 per cent increase. This
was mostly due to an increase of 19,300 fabricated metal product
manufacturing filled jobs, and 8,700 non-metallic mineral product
manufacturing filled jobs. These increases were offset by food product
manufacturing filled jobs, which decreased by 5,900, and printing (including
the reproduction of recorded media) filled jobs, which decreased by 7,900. The
key results from the 2017-18 Australian Labour Account are summarised in
Figure Two below.

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