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Oceania > New Zealand > Labor

NEW ZEALAND LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 6% [36th of 77]
Days off work 8 days [17th of 20]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 7.1 % Time series [32nd of 94]
Female decision makers 38% [5th of 67]
force, total 2,153,526 Time series [113rd of 184]
Gender division of housework 2.13 [5th of 13]
Labor force 2,236,000 Time series [87th of 132]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 10%, industry 25%, services 65%
Labor force > By occupation > Industry 19% Time series [12th of 29]
Strikes 20 [19th of 27]
Trade union membership 22% [14th of 18]
Unemployment 5.7% [8th of 18]
Unemployment gender ratio 95% [23rd of 30]
Unemployment rate 3.6% Time series [77th of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 3.9 % Time series [70th of 101]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required
4 weeks as of April 1, 2007
Work Time > More than 40 hours 65.4% [4th of 18]
Working time to buy a car 1,175 hours [12th of 16]
Working time to buy a television set 20 hours [11th of 15]
Youth unemployment 13.2% [10th of 30]

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SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; OECD; World Development Indicators database; calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Laboursta Database. February 2002; Jeanne A. Batalova and Philip N. Cohen, 'Premarital Cohabitation and Housework: Couples in Cross-National Perspective', Journal of Marriage and Family 64, August 2002, p.748; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; OECD; Figures are from the OECD. The figures are from EIRO for France, Ireland and Italy; OECD Historical Statistics; calculated on the basis of data on male and female unemployment rates from OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook 2001. Paris; Wikipedia: Vacation ; ILO, Key Indicators; International Metalworkers' Federation, The Purchasing Power of Working Time 2002: An International Comparison of Average Net Hourly Earnings 2001 (International Metalworkers' Federation, Geneva, 2002);

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