Skills Challenges Report – New Zealand’s skill challenges over the next 10 years
Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Purpose
- Introduction
- Recent supply of skills
- Skills utilisation
- Recent demand for skills
- Forecast supply of skills
- Forecast demand for skills
- Current interventions [make, buy and fix]
- Appendix 1: Technical notes on forecasting methodology
- Appendix 2: Historical changes in industry and occupational employment
- References
Table of figures
- Figure 1: Stocks and flows in the labour market: December 2009
- Figure 2: Annual permanent and long term migration 1990-2010
- Figure 3: Highest qualification 1986-2009, (25 to 64 year-olds)
- Figure 4: Earnings advantage for degree educated over upper secondary educated (2008)
- Figure 5: Employment growth and GDP growth, 1991-2008
- Figure 6: Employment rates by highest qualification, 1986-2009 (25 to 64 year-olds)
- Figure 7 Employment by qualification, 1991-2019
- Figure 8: Projected total labour force participation rate, 2009–2061
- Figure 9: Trends in government funding of tertiary education by sector
Tables
- Table 1: Trends in first time graduates
- Table 2: Qualifications of migrants and the New Zealand-born, 2006 (15 year-olds and over)
- Table 3: Highest qualification shares by population sub-group (25 to 64 year-olds)
- Table 4: Employment and GDP shares by industry group, 1991 and 2008
- Table 5: Labour productivity growth by business cycle industry, 1982-2006
- Table 6: Occupation shares in 1991 and 2008 (15 to 64 year-olds)
- Table 7: Share of high, medium and low-skilled occupations by industry
- Table 8: Employment and retirements by qualification groups 2009-2019
- Table 9: The shape of the forecast economy
- Table 10: Forecast employment by industry, 2009 and 2019
- Table 11: Forecast employment by occupation, 2009 and 2019
- Table 12: Occupational demand projections grouped by qualifications, 2009-2019, annual percentage growth
- Table 13: Employment by occupation in 1991 and 2008
- Table 14: Employment by industry in 1991 and 2008
- Table 15: Population aged 15-64 years by highest qualification in 1991 and 2009
- Table 16: Share of GDP by industry, 1991 and 2008
- Table 17: Occupational demand by qualification level 2009-2019
Acknowledgement
The contribution of key personnel in the following Ministries and agencies to the formulation or reviewing of this report is acknowledged:
- The Ministry of Education
- The Treasury
- The Tertiary Education Commission
- The Ministry of Social Development
- The Ministry of Economic Development
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