In the June 2011 quarter:
- Seasonally adjusted unemployment was unchanged at 154,000.**
- The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained the same at 6.5 percent.
- Seasonally adjusted employment increased slightly by 1,000 to 2,214,000.
- Unadjusted movements for key labour market outcomes in the Canterbury region moved in a different direction from the national estimates, when compared with the June 2010 quarter.
| Seasonally adjusted |
June 2011 quarter |
Quarterly change |
Annual change |
| Unemployment rate |
6.5% |
0.0 |
-0.4 |
| Unemployed |
154,000 |
-0.1%** |
-3.7% |
| Employed |
2,214,000 |
0.0% |
+2.0% |
| Not in the labour force |
1,096,000 |
+1.4% |
+0.3% |
| Labour force participation rate |
68.4% |
-0.2 |
+0.3 |
**Due to rounding there is no level change but there is a quarterly percentage change.
| Geoff Bascand |
4 August 2011 |
| Government Statistician |
ISSN 1178-0487 |