Further changes will be made to the way official employment statistics are compiled following an independent review of the process, but not this month.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has already implemented the two main recommendations of the review, and will accept the remaining 14, most of which relate to closely monitoring and considering its methods.
The review, conducted by a former ABS and World Bank employee, was triggered by an outbreak of unexplained volatility in the jobs figures over July and August.
The ABS is already using a re-worked seasonal adjustment method, which was the main recommendation of the review.
The resulting large revisions to the July and August numbers prompted widespread scepticism among economists about the usefulness of the figures, even after the bureau had revamped its methodology.
In line with another recommendation, the ABS says it has changed its procedures so that if such a problem crops up again, changes to survey procedures will automatically be considered as a possible cause.
November jobs figures will be released on Thursday, and the bureau said no changes will be made to those numbers in light of the review's recommendations.
"There will not be any further refinements to the methodology applied to the Labour Force estimates until the annual seasonal reanalysis is undertaken in early 2015," the bureau said.
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