New Zealand - Unemployment Rate

For New Zealand, survey-based labor status (labor force, employment, unemployment rate, etc.), employment by industry, and hours worked; for the country, regional councils and districts; annual.

• Measurement: Percentage (%)
• Adjustment: Not applicable
• Native frequency: Annual
• Start date: As early as 2006
• Geo coverage:
• Country (1)
• Regional council (15)
• Territorial authority (40)
• Do all concept-geo pairs exist: No

The unemployment rate is the figure given when amount of unemployed people are divided by the labour force, this is expressed as a percentage.

These are annual average figures. Data may be suppressed for some regions for some of the reported years. Results are subject to large sample errors, especially in the smaller regions.

Moody's Analytics supplements

We produce seasonally adjusted versions of the LFS quartet at the regional council geo level.

Yes.

HLFS estimates are benchmarked to the results ("estimated resident population") of the national census, conducted every five years.

Further reading

At Stats NZ:

• Unemployment rate
• Guide to unemployment statistics (2017)
• Household labor force survey population rebase from 2018 estimated resident population (Oct 2020)

At DataInfo+:

• Labor market statistics quarterly concept set
• Household Labor Force Survey
• Quarterly Employment Survey