Household Labour Force Survey, seasonally adjusted · latest quarter
Quarterly (QoQ) and year-on-year (YoY) changes are in percentage points.
Rate with 3-quarter and 8-quarter trailing moving averages. Click a name in the legend to hide or show it. Stats NZ's 2016 survey redevelopment stopped counting people who only looked at job advertisements as unemployed and revised the series back to March 2007; it judged the effect before that date to be minimal. Method paper.
Employed people as a share of the working-age population. The dashed line marks the June 2016 survey redevelopment. Stats NZ did not revise earlier employment figures, so the step up that quarter is partly a change in measurement. Method paper.
A broad measure of untapped capacity: unemployed, underemployed, and the potential labour force.