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released: 13 Sep 1999 author: AIHW media release

Presents statistics on trends in the employment of nurses in Australia over the decade up to, and including 1998. The number and characteristics of all registered and enrolled nurses are provided for 1996, including statistics showing employment in nursing by age, sex, type of nurse, area of clinical nursing, classification, work setting, hours worked and geographic region of main job. The report also includes statistics on numbers of certified nurses employed in OECD countries, levels of international migration by nurses, and the numbers of students enrolled in and completing tertiary nursing courses.

ISSN 1327-4309; ISBN 978 1 74024 031 4; Cat. no. HWL 14; 129pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (95K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Abbreviations
    • Acknowledgments
  • Chapters
    1. Overview of the nursing labour force (139K PDF)
    2. Nursing employment, 1998 (52K PDF)
    3. FTE nursing staff in hospitals, 1997-98 (93K PDF)
    4. Education and migration (108K PDF)
    5. Nurse shortages, December 1998 (53K PDF)
    6. Employed nurses, national nursing labour force survey, 1996 (147K PDF)
    7. Trends in nursing employment (156K PDF)
      1. Broad trends
      2. Nursing workforce by work setting and area of nursing, 1996
    8. Registered nurses, national nursing labour force survey, 1996 (174K PDF)
    9. Enrolled nurses, national nursing labour force survey, 1996 (134K PDF)
    10. Geographic distribution of the nursing workforce, 1996 (149K PDF)
    11. Population census statistics, 1996 (77K PDF)
    12. International comparison (49K PDF)
    13. Explanatory notes (61K PDF)
      • Identification of registered and enrolled nurses
  • End matter (164K PDF)
    • Glossary
    • References
    • Related publications

Notes and corrections

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Previous versions of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.

  1. Significant changes were made to the survey design and processing in 2003. Data from the 1995 to 2001 surveys have been revised to enable time series comparisons.

Recommended citation

AIHW 1999. Nursing labour force 1998. National Health Labour Force Series. Cat. no. HWL 14. Canberra: AIHW.