Youth Labour Market Factsheet – March 2011
Published May 2012
This factsheet reports key labour market information for youth for the year to March 2012. All data is sourced from the Household Labour Force Survey released quarterly by Statistics New Zealand.
Youth occupy a distinct place in the labour market because significantly more are either studying or raising children and thus not in the labour force. These characteristics help explain why youth rates in many of the labour market indicators outlined in this report differ considerably from those for the total population.
In the year to March 2012, there were 638,600 young people (aged 15 to 24 years), of whom 60.1% were in the labour force while 39.9% were not in the labour force.