Cardinia Shire
Resident workers - Hours worked
43.2% of the resident workers in Cardinia Shire work 40 or more hours, compared to 42.4% in Victoria.
Hours worked shows the distribution of employment hours for Cardinia Shire's residents. Full-time employment is considered 35-hours and over.
The hours worked by employed people in Cardinia Shire depends on a number of factors:
- The availability and take-up of part-time work;
- The industry sector in which they work;
- The occupation level and requirement or opportunity to work overtime, and;
- The age structure and household structure of the working population.
Hours worked statistics should be viewed in conjunction with Age structure, Occupations and Income to provide more insight into the observations made.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 and 2016 – by usual residence
| Resident workers hours worked | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinia Shire | 2016 | 2011 | Change | |||||
| Hours worked | Number | % | Victoria% | Number | % | Victoria% | 2011 to 2016 | |
| None | 1,493 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 1,299 | 3.6 | 3.9 | +194 | 22001 |
| 1 hour - 15 hours | 5,085 | 11.3 | 12.0 | 4,004 | 11.0 | 11.4 | +1,081 | 22002 |
| 16 hours - 24 hours | 4,452 | 9.9 | 10.5 | 3,233 | 8.9 | 9.7 | +1,219 | 22003 |
| 25 hours - 34 hours | 4,980 | 11.1 | 11.2 | 3,671 | 10.1 | 10.1 | +1,309 | 22004 |
| 35 hours - 39 hours | 8,599 | 19.1 | 18.7 | 6,237 | 17.2 | 17.6 | +2,362 | 22005 |
| 40 hours | 8,645 | 19.2 | 19.5 | 7,062 | 19.5 | 19.5 | +1,583 | 22006 |
| 41 hours - 48 hours | 4,373 | 9.7 | 9.2 | 3,837 | 10.6 | 10.2 | +536 | 22007 |
| 49 hours or more | 6,412 | 14.3 | 13.7 | 6,155 | 17.0 | 15.2 | +257 | 22008 |
| Not stated | 905 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 750 | 2.1 | 2.2 | +155 | 22009 |
| Total persons | 44,944 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 36,248 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +8,696 | |
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing (opens a new window) 2011 and 2016. Compiled and presented by .id (opens a new window), the population experts.
Dominant groups
Analysis of the hours worked by Cardinia Shire's resident workers in 2016 compared to Victoria shows that there was a lower proportion of people who worked part-time (34 hours or less) and a higher proportion of people worked full-time (35 hours or more).
Overall, 35.6% of the resident workers worked part-time (34 hours or less), and 62.4% worked full-time (35 hours or more), compared with 37.0% and 61.1% respectively for Victoria.
There were no major differences between the hour worked by the resident workers of Cardinia Shire and Victoria in 2016.
Emerging groups
From 2011 to 2016, the number of the resident workers working full-time (35 hours or more) in Cardinia Shire increased by 4,738 people (20.3%).
The largest changes in hours worked by the resident workers in Cardinia Shire between 2011 and 2016 were:
- 35 hours - 39 hours (+2,362 people)
- 40 hours (+1,583 people)
- 25 hours - 34 hours (+1,309 people)
- 16 hours - 24 hours (+1,219 people)