Job Satisfaction at Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

There is some coding (Python), but my day to day responsibilities are mostly about designing processes and systems around data. There is also quite a bit of manual work that is not so enjoyable (usually in Excel or SAS)

I work in an agile team completing programming and devops tasks, with the occasional word or PowerPoint document thrown in.

Day to day, I get to work on super interesting projects, data and tasks and with supportive and friendly people.

I enjoy most of my work although I feel there is a skills gap that prevents me from being able to contribute to some tasks as much as I would like to

I am responsible for social media content creation, monitoring and metric analysis.

I run maintenance processes and do digital canvassing.

I enjoy my role now as it has some relevancy to my degree.

Day to day responsibilities are reasonable, interesting and feel beneficial to society

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Currently I work as a Data scientist and I very much enjoy my work. My day to day consists mostly of understanding business requirements, writing code to gather requisite data, and an analysing outputs. I've previously been in more operational roles and project management. This was not to my liking as I don't like the unnecessary urgency caused by artificially tight deadlines.

Work is ok, although I was hired as a statistical analyst and I hardly ever analyse statistics

I like my daily work. Mostly project based - innovation projects. Daily tasks: reviewing resources, documentation, communications; creating templates and resources; provision of subject matter advice. I am a SME with qualifications in a specific area. I run my stream and am responsible for forward work planning, project management, etc.

I get to do projects rather than the same thing over and over, which I love for the variety. I think my role is a little too much documentation and not enough programming given my skillset.

Help build bespoke tools for data analysis during the off week and performed data analyse during production cycle.

I feel my role is appropriate for my experience, qualifications, and interests. I have a variety of responsibilities and really enjoy my work.

Completing project work, liaising with stakeholders.

My role is to prepare national data for statistical publication, from collection, processing, and analysis, through to drafting statistical commentary and publishing the annual releases. I also respond to ad hoc data requests, sometimes creating customised datasets. Between working on national publications, I work on projects with the aim of improving the existing data releases, statistical classifications, and the general processes of the team.

I enjoy me day to day as it is always different, but I can always see the value in my tasks. It's very fulfilling and quite consistent in terms of workload.

I am responsible for integrated datasets into the Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA). This involves performing safe data checks and following standard operating procedures to perform safe data treatments and assemble analytical data products.

The work plan can change on a whim. Upper management seems to not value the time put into projects. work that takes days to complete will be entirely scrapped for no apparent reason. Better project planning could avoid this. Some staff members also cruise through with just the bare minimum of work. given the lack of promotion opportunities, we are not incentivised to work hard.