The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publication Labour Force, Australia shows that the unemployment rate fell by 0.2 percentage points to 5.3% in seasonally adjusted terms, and dropped by 0.1 percentage point to 5.4% in trend terms in January 2010.

The participation rate was 65.3%, and the number of employed persons rose in both trend and seasonally adjusted terms.

In the ACT the unemployment rate rose by 0.1% to 3.8% in January, however the participation rate also increased by 0.2% to 72.7% during the month.