Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 6-Nov-14

A Roy Morgan Research survey on Australia’s labour market has found that the real unemployment rate fell by 0.8 per cent to 9.1 per cent in October 2014. The workforce fell by 215,000 to 12,00,000 in total, and the number of people who were underemployed rose by 102,000 to 9.3 per cent. The official unemployment rate was 6.2 per cent in September. Roy Morgan Research executive chairman Gary Morgan notes that October was the 29th straight month in which more than one million Australians were unemployed, as well as the 35th successive month in which more than two million people have been either unemployed or underemployed

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