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The information and communication technology (ICT) industry is dominated by small businesses, with almost 96% of all specialist ICT businesses in Australia employing fewer than 20 people in 2001. The industry employed about 274,000 people in 2001, the largest being the information and communication services sector (63%). Job growth in the information services sector was strong through the 1990s. Other sectors have shown more mixed employment patterns, such as the ICT equipment manufacture, in which employment has dropped from 7.7% of total employment in 1993 to less than 5% in 2001. Recent labour force data suggest that employment in this industry, generally, has been falling since 2001.
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Jobs in the ICT industry continue to be relatively highly paid with the average wage paid being $58,951 pa. Less than 0.5% of those engaged in the ICT industry in 2001 were proprietors or partners. The industry appears to be male dominated. Almost 67% of all those employed in the industry in 2001 were male. Employment in the ICT industry has largely been driven by an increase in non-technical jobs, with the number of computing and technical jobs remaining static. In 2001, there were about 25,200 businesses in the field, of which 73% were information services businesses. There is significant foreign ownership. ICT is now embedded in almost everything: cars, washing machines, refrigerators, toys and so on. Therefore, ICT industries are those that contribute to the communication and processing of information in (largely) digital form, using (largely) electronic networks. Source: Australian Computer Society |