Key Economic Indicators, 2017 - updated
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| Labour Force and Demography
|  | | | | | |
| Employed persons - Trend | | Jul 2017 | '000 | 12 160.1 | 0.2% | 1.9% |
| Participation rate - Trend | | Jul 2017 | % | 64.9 | 0.1 pts | 0.2 pts |
| Unemployment rate - Trend | | Jul 2017 | % | 5.6 | 0.0 pts | -0.1 pts |
| Employment to Population ratio - Trend | | Jul 2017 | % | 61.3 | 0.1 pts | 0.2 pts |
| Job Vacancies - Trend | | May 2017 | '000 | 189.2 | 1.7% | 9.2% |
| Estimated resident population - (Preliminary) | | Dec Qtr 2016 | '000 | 24,385.6 | 0.3% | 1.6% |
| Short-term overseas visitor arrivals - Trend (a) | | June 2017 | '000 | 734.9 | 0.8% | 7.7% |
| For unemployment and participation rates, the changes are given as percentage points. | ||||||
Source: ABS
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