JOBS IN PHYSICS IN 2000; LOOKING UP TOWARDS THE NEW MILLENIUM?

摘要

This is the twenty-second in the series of annual surveys carried out by the author for the Australian Institute of Physics. As the country "recovered" from the recession of the '90s, employment opportunities for physicists appear to have settled down to a level of about 500 per annum, to be compared with around 700 that applied for the decade to 1990. In 2000 they went up to 540 from 470. To the extent that there was a discernible pattern within this total, it tended to repeat that of recent years. It has been the practice in the past to publish a fairly detailed annual analysis in The Physicist. The data for the first decade were summarised in Prescott (1988) and for the first two decades in Prescott (1998). The data for year 1999 are to be found in Prescott (2000). The present report is in abbreviated form.