The NSE monitors labour market, immigration, and employment matters to improve our evidence base for evaluating policy and answering contemporary policy questions. Summary The National Survey of Employers (NSE) is an annual survey of New Zealand employers. The NSE monitors labour market, immigration, and employment matters to improve our evidence base for evaluating policy and...

This report considered ways to increase the number of Pacific peoples in the health workforce and improve outcomes for Pacific patients. It is one of a number of forecasts commissioned by Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) to build a picture of the future health and disability workforce. Recommendations included: Implement an improved model of care...

The trend for online job vacancies in New Zealand fell in August, according to this paper on vacancies advertised on the two main internet job boards – SEEK and Trade Me Jobs. Highlights The trend for online job vacancies fell in August. Online vacancies for skilled jobs fell by 0.4 per cent in August, while...

Summary: In the year to August 2014, food prices increased 0.7 percent, following a 0.1 percent decrease in the year to July 2014. Higher annual prices for restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food (up 2.4 percent) were influenced by increases for both ready-to-eat food (up 2.9 percent) and restaurant meals (up 1.7 percent). Meat, poultry, and...

Sets out the response required in New Zealand to a case of probable and/or confirmed poliomyelitis (polio) caused by a wild-type poliovirus or by a vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV). Key points Poliovirus is still endemic in a number of countries. Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan have never been declared free of polio, and between January 2013 and...