Published 5 February 2010 Statistics New Zealand said yesterday the unemployment hit its highest level since the June 1999 quarter, reaching 7.3% (seasonally adjusted) in the December quarter. Unadjusted, the unemployment rate was 6.8% in the December quarter, up from 6.3% in September, 5.8% in June, 4.4% in December 2008. Statistics NZ said the […]
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Unemployment rate 5.8%, Auckland 6.6%
Published 7 August 2009 New Zealand’s unemployment level is up 53% from a year ago, Statistics NZ’s household labour force survey for the June quarter (out yesterday) & quarterly employment survey (out Tuesday) show. The employment survey showed fulltime-equivalent employees down 3.2% from a year ago to 1.36 million employees. Average total hourly earnings […]
Read more →Unemployment at 3.6%, labour participation stays down
Published: 11 August 2005 Unemployment fell 6 percentage points to 3.6% (actual, not seasonally adjusted) in the June quarter after rising 7 points in the March quarter. The labour force participation rate, after being below 67% for most of last year, climbed to 68.3% iM the December quarter but has since fallen to 67.9% in […]
Read more →Unemployment 4% – 3.7% in Auckland
Unemployment dropped from 4.5% in the first quarter of 2004 to 4% in the June quarter. A year ago it was 4.6%, and in the September 2002 quarter it was 5.3%. In 2 years, the actual number of unemployed has fallen by 20,000 – from 101,100 in June 2002 (rising to 106,700 in the March […]
Read more →Labour market tightens
Labour market conditions tightened in the March quarter – the number of employed grew 0.9%, total hours worked rose 1.6% & the unemployment rate fell to 4.6%. The unemployment rate was the 4th lowest in the OECD, above Korea, Luxembourg & Switzerland. Statistics NZ’s March quarter household labour force survey showed the number of employed […]
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