Unemployment
Ethnic differences
The youth unemployment rate is lowest among people of European ethnicity.
In 2007, the unemployment rate for European young people was 7.7 percent, compared to 14.7 percent for Pacific young people and 10.3 percent for other ethnic groups. Young Māori aged 15 to 24 had an unemployment rate of 16.9 in 2006, the highest of any ethnic group.
Unemployment rate, 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.
