Australia: types of difficulties experienced by unemployed people when finding employment by disability status

In 2018 in Australia, almost 45 percent of people with a disability reported their own health or disability as a difficulty experienced when finding employment, compared to 3.3 percent of people without a disability. Insufficient work experience was a leading difficulty experienced by people with and without a disability that year.

Types of difficulties experienced by unemployed people when finding employment in Australia in 2018, by disability status

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Release date

July 2022

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Region

Australia

Survey time period

2018

Age group

15-64

Special properties

Collected for people living in households who are unemployed or not in the labour force and have looked for work in the last four weeks.

Supplementary notes

Notes from source:
*Estimate has a relative standard error of 25–50% and should be used with caution (applies to 'with disability' figures).

1. Figures are rounded and components may not add to total because of ABS confidentiality processes.
2. More than one difficulty may be reported. Components will not add to total.

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