Skills Challenges Report – New Zealand’s skill challenges over the next 10 years
Data for Figure 1: Stocks and flows in the labour market: December 2009
Total New Zealand Population 4,346,700
- Increased by
- Births 62,543 p.a.
- PLT Arrivals 86,410 p.a.
- Decreased by
- Deaths 28,964 p.a.
- PLT Departures 65,157 p.a.
- Overall
- Natural Increase 33,579 p.a.
- Net Migration 21,253 p.a.
Working Age Population 3,398,400
- Increased by
- Young people reaching working age 60,000 p.a.
Labour Force 2,320,000
- Employed
2,152,000
- Increased by
- 98,600 p.a. from unemployed
- 225,800 p.a. from Not in the Labour Force
- Decreased by
- 97,200 p.a. to unemployed
- 265,800 p.a. to Not in the Labour Force
- Increased by
- Unemployed
168,000
- Increased by
- 97,200 p.a. from employed
- 131,500 p.a. from Not in the Labour Force
- Decreased by
- 98,600 p.a. to employed
- 118,300 p.a. to Not in the Labour Force
- Increased by
Not in the Labour Force 1,086,000
- Increased by
- 265,800 p.a. from employed
- 118,300 p.a. from unemployed
- Decreased by
- 225,800 p.a. to employed
- 131,500 p.a. to unemployed
LABOUR MARKET TERMS
POPULATION: people living in New Zealand.
WORKING-AGE POPULATION: people living in New Zealand aged 15 years and over.
EMPLOYED: people who work at least one hour per week.
UNEMPLOYED: people not in work but who are available and actively seeking work.
LABOUR FORCE: people employed or unemployed.
NOT IN THE LABOUR FORCE: people in the working-age population who are neither employed nor unemployed.
NOTES:
* PLT = permanent and long term migrants in the year to Dec-09
Population: number of people at the end of Dec-09
Working-age population, not in the labour force, labour force, employed, unemployed: number of people seasonally adjusted average for 3 months to Dec-09
Flows are number of people moving between labour market states in the year to Dec-09
Births and deaths are for the year to Dec-09
Figures may not add to total due to rounding.
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