Employment, earnings and income statistics from leed - At a Glance

Published: 12 December 2007

Description

The report summarises the findings from the latest release of annual, person-level statistics from the Linked Employer-Employee Dataset (LEED). LEED statistics show earnings disparities between men and women and also shed light on the different patterns of movement between earnings groups. LEED also provides new information on employment growth in different industries and for the self-employed.

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Employment, Earnings and Income Statistics from LEED HTML | PDF [60 KB, 5 pages]

Summary

Employment

• There was strong growth in employment between 2001 and 2006.
• Growth in the number of wage and salary earners was strong while the number of self-employed hardly changed.

Industries

• The business and property services industry has overtaken manufacturing as New Zealand’s largest employer.
• The construction industry was New Zealand’s fastest growing employer between 2001 and 2006.
• Employment in the agriculture, forestry and fishing industry has undergone significant change. There were moderate increases in the number of wage and salary earners, particularly in services to agriculture, which were offset by large falls in the number of self-employed, particularly in dairy farming.

Gender

• Women were over-represented in the bottom five earnings deciles while men make up three-quarters of those in the top decile.
• Between 2001 and 2006, women were more likely than men to move to a lower earnings decile.
• Median earnings for women grew by 24% between 2001 and 2006, while median earnings for men grew by 20%.
  

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