Employment
Ethnic differences
European young people are more likely to be employed than young people from Māori, Pacific or other ethnic groups.
In 2007, 66.0 percent of European young people aged 15 to 24 were employed, compared to 48.8 percent of Māori young people, 44.7 percent of Pacific people, and 47.5 percent of young people from other ethnic groups.
Employment rates for young people aged 15 to 24, by ethnicity, 1999-2007
Source: Statistics New Zealand, Household Labour Force Survey, December year-end average.
Note
We encourage you to be cautious about drawing conclusions from comparisons between ethnic groups. Apparent differences (in unadjusted data) between ethnic groups can often be explained by factors other than ethnicity per se, such as the different age, sex, geographical and socioeconomic distributions of different ethnic populations. In addition, datasets vary in the way that they collect and record ethnicity data.
