Pacific Peoples' Labour Market Factsheet – March 2012
Published May 2012
This factsheet reports key labour market information for Pacific Peoples for the year to March 2012. All data is sourced from the Household Labour Force Survey released quarterly by Statistics New Zealand. For the purposes of this factsheet “total response” data is used. This means that Pacific refers to everyone who has selected that ethnic group, regardless of whether they have also selected another group.
In the year to March 2012, 202,900 Pacific Peoples were aged 15 years and over, of whom 62.3% were in the labour force while 37.7% were not in the labour force, due to such reasons as child rearing, retirement or studying.