Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 5-Aug-14

A Roy Morgan Research survey on Australia’s labour market has found that the real unemployment rate fell by 0.4 per cent to 10.2 per cent in July 2014. The workforce fell by 141,000 to 12,367,000 in total, and the number of people who were underemployed fell by 109,000 to 8.7 per cent. The nation’s official unemployment rate was six per cent in June. Roy Morgan Research executive chairman Gary Morgan notes that July was the 26th straight month in which more than one million people were unemployed, as well as the 32nd successive month in which more than two million people have been either unemployed or underemployed

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