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Waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... holding their collective breath ahead of Friday's US employment report. Here, expectations are not good. The drop-off in census workers is expected to reduce the headline non-farm payrolls number by 100,000 in June. Knowing how forecasts could go - they ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... overnight - coming at a time when the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced its monetary policy decision and the Census Bureau reporting new home sales collapse to the their lowest level on record --highlights the continued uncertainty surrounding ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... expectations, the odds for a disappointment also increase. And we were disappointed... big time! Especially considering that Census workers contributed more than 400,000 of the 431,000 jobs added last month. And what are Census workers? They are temporary ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... 431,000 jobs overall were created last month, but most of them, 411,000, came from the government's hiring of temporary census workers. The overall number was also below market expectations of 513,000 new jobs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... looking at estimates ranging from a gain of 100K to a head spinning 750K, confounded further by another guess - temporary census workers are estimated to have added 400K (to 500K?) to payrolls in May. Great expectations. With such high expectations ...

Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... 200,000 gain markets expected but still the biggest increase since March 2007. Better... take out the 48,000 temporary census workers hired during the month and we're left with an underlying payrolls addition of 114,000. Best... January and February ...

Bad news on Good Friday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... report comes in as - or better than - expected, it would be due to the 'temporary' addition of workers employed by the Census Bureau. The extra boost to consumer spending that this will generate would disappear when their census-taking service is finished. ...

Men behaving womanly

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... and female life expectancies at birth is now the lowest it has been, since the 1940s. The figures were based on the 2006 census and conducted every five years. Based on this data, the Australian Government Actuary found that men are catching up to the ...

Retirement savings only last a few years

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... executive, Pauline Vamos. The AMP.NATSEM survey sample is based on all available ABS data, which is taken from the four yearly census.

ASFA supports same sex super bill

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... higher tax on superannuation death benefits, an issue she said, must be addressed. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) census data found more than 50,000 Australians are defined as same sex couples. ASFA estimates up to 160 people a year miss out on ...