Nursing labour force 2001
This report presents statistics on trends in the employment of nurses in Australia over the decade up to and including 2001. The number and characteristics of all registered and enrolled nurses are presented for 1999, including statistics showing employment in nursing by age, sex, type of nurse, area of clinical nursing, classification, work setting, hours worked and geographic location of main job.
ISSN 1327-4309; ISBN 978 1 74024 271 4; Cat. no. HWL 26; 131pp.; $22.00
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Publication table of content
- Preliminary material (62KB PDF)
- Title page and verso
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations, symbols and other usages
- Nursing labour force trends
- Sections
- Explanatory notes (29KB PDF)
- Main findings (14KB PDF)
- Overview (38KB PDF)
- Overall number of nurses in 1999
- Composition of the nurse labour force
- Movements since 1993
- Demographics (15KB PDF)
- Regional distribution (24KB PDF)
- State/territory comparisons (27KB PDF)
- Patterns of employment (57KB PDF)
- Nursing roles
- Job classification and salary ranges
- Work setting of main job
- Acute care/psychiatric hospitals
- Residential aged care
- Community health service
- Private medical rooms
- Clinical area of nursing
- Medical and surgical nursing
- Geriatrics and gerontology
- Perioperative, operating theatre and recovery nursing
- Midwifery, obstetrics and gynaecology
- Mental health/psychiatric nursing
- Critical/intensive care
- Community nursing
- Supply of nurses (93KB PDF)
- Hours worked
- Public/private sector
- Nursing roles
- Work setting
- Clinical area
- Geographic location
- State and territory comparison
- Current supply
- Full-time equivalent nurses
- Full-time equivalent nurses per 100,000 population
- Nursing supply in hospitals
- Current skill shortages
- Future supply
- Nurse education
- Nurse migration
- International comparison (16KB PDF)
- Aged care nursing (38KB PDF)
- The ageing population
- Nurses employed in aged care
- Residential aged care
- Age distribution of nurses working in aged care
- Additional tables (33KB PDF)
- End matter (39KB PDF)
- Glossary
- References
- Related publications
- National health labour force series
- Other publications
- Internet access
Notes and corrections
The current version of the publication is presented above.
Previous versions of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.
- 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.
Previous version - Full publication (576KB PDF)
Recommended citation
AIHW 2003. Nursing labour force 2001. National Health Labour Force Series 26. Cat. no. HWL 26. Canberra: AIHW.