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Alston slams ACS unemployment report By Staff writers, ZDNet Australia February 20, 2003 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/Alston-slams-ACS-unemployment-report/0,139023166,120272251,00.htm
The federal government has savaged an Australian Computer Society survey which alleges employment in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector stands at 11.9 percent as "blatant grandstanding". The Minister for Information Technology and Communications, Senator Richard Alston, said in a statement released today the ACS results were derived from a survey of 889 of its members which attracted a response rate of only 6.7 percent. "[This is] hardly the basis for any firm extrapolation," Alston said. "...the fact is that, while the ICT labour market remains subdued relative to highs experienced during the tech boom, figures released by the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations earlier this week show that there was a rise of 14,400 or 7.5 percent in the employment of ICT professionals over the year to November 2002," he said. "In fact, the latest figures from the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations show that unemployment of IT professionals averaged 3.8 percent in 2002".
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