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Quarterly labour market and training review

The quarterly labour market and training review provides an overview of labour market and economic developments for Queensland and covers a range of areas that include youth, mature aged and training statistics as well as a commentary on the short-term outlook for employment.

March 2009 edition
Highlights

In trend terms, the unemployment rate for Queensland increased over the year to March 2009 to 4.7% compared with 5.4% for Australia.
Youth (15-24 year olds) and mature aged employment (45-64 year olds) increased by 0.5% and 2.7% respectively in Queensland over the 12 months to March 2009.
Trend ANZ newspaper-based job advertisements in Queensland fell by around 10.3% over March 2009 and were down 65.1% over the year.
December 2008 figures saw seasonally adjusted business investment increase over the quarter by 10.2% in Queensland.

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