Labour Market Analysis Tools

The Department of Labour maintains a set of labour market "tools" that provide data at an occupational and industry level. The tools are interactive and enable the user to select a particular industry, occupation or region and “drill down” to compare information with other sectors, regions or the national average. There are currently five labour market analysis tools:

Tu Mai Iwi Tool

The Tu Mai Iwi Tool provides a customised profile of iwi labour market indicators that allows for comparison between about 100 individual iwi, Maori and the general New Zealand population.

Jobs and Tertiary Education Indicator

The Jobs and Tertiary Education Indicator is an interactive tool which allows you to explore key facts about the fields of study, occupations, and industries of New Zealanders. The information is derived from the census.

Regional Industry Snapshot

The Regional industry snapshot enables users to select and view key facts about selected regions or industry in terms of the number of employees, number of enterprises and number of geographic units. Based on Statistics New Zealand Business Enterprise survey data [external link].

Regional Industry Trends

With Regional industry trends you can select and view trends in any selected industry by region over the last 5 years, and to compare this with the same industry in other regions. Based on Statistics New Zealand Business Enterprise survey data.

Key Information Tool (KIT)

The Key Information Tool (KIT) gives users headline labour market information from a range of sources in a single, easy to access place.  The tool also includes links to labour market reports on the DoL website so that people can easily access related analytical work. The combination of these various sources produces a well rounded picture of the state of the New Zealand labour market.

An example of how these tools can be applied can be found in this case study.

If you cannot open the tools on-line please contact the Department of Labour at info@dol.govt.nz and request a CD of this data. Please remember to include a postal address.