Household Incomes Were Increasing Prior To The COVID-19 Lockdown – Statistics NZ
All key income measures for household incomes increased prior to the COVID-19 lockdown on 25 March 2020, Stats NZ said…
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Childcare a challenge for 1 in 6 working parents – Statistics NZ
Not having care available when they needed it was the main childcare difficulty (38 percent) for parents who worked, or…
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Annual Net Migration Remains High in October – Statistics NZ
New Zealand saw a net gain of 70,700 migrants for the year ended October 2017, with 131,600 migrant arrivals and…
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MSM catches up on Unemployment stats rort
The mainstream media – or at least one clever journalist working for Mediaworks/Newshub – has finally caught up with a story broken by this blogger last year that unemployment data from Statistics NZ was no longer reliable;
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2017 – Ongoing jobless tally
All unemployment data from Statistics NZ should therefore be treated with caution. Unemployment is likely to be much higher than Statistics NZ figures indicate.
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Net annual migration passes 71,000 – Statistics NZ
A record 71,300 more migrants arrived in New Zealand than left in the January 2017 year, Statistics New Zealand said…
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2016 – Ongoing jobless tally and why unemployment statistics will no longer be used
This blogger previously reported how Statistics NZ recently implemented a so-called “revision” which would materially affect how unemployment stats were counted and reported;
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Lies, Damned lies and Statistical Lies – ** UPDATE **
At the stroke of a pen, unemployment fell from 5.7% to 5.2%. Simply because if a person was job-searching using the internet they were “not actively seeking work“. Which beggars belief as the majority of jobseekers will be using the internet. It is the 21st century – what else would they be using?
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Lies, Damned lies and Statistical Lies
This government has done what few other Western democracies have achieved; a state of Orwellianism that Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, and other dictatorships required unrelenting brute force to achieve.
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Top 10 percent of households have half of total net worth – Statistics NZ
Household net worth The average New Zealand household was worth $289,000 in the year to June 2015, Statistics New Zealand…