International travel and migration articles

Since April 1999, Statistics New Zealand has intermittently produced International Travel and Migration articles, either within or separate from the monthly Hot Off The Press releases. These provide extra analysis of selected topics.

Note that only some of the links below will go straight to the articles listed. Others will go to the top of the commentary section of the monthly releases, and some scrolling will be necessary to find the article.

Visitor arrivals | Resident departures | Permanent and long-term migration | Other  

Visitor arrivals

2008
March	Short-term overseas visitors from the People's Republic of China (PDF, 142KB)
2007
November	Comparison of visitor arrivals to New Zealand with visitor arrivals to Australia (PDF, 220KB)
December	Estimates of short-term travellers in and out of New Zealand (PDF, 110KB)
2005
June	British and Irish Lions' rugby tour
2002
June	Increase in average length of stay of visitor arrivals
November	Two Million Visitor Arrivals
2001
January	Visitors from South-East Asia
February	Visitors from Western Europe
March	Visitors from Oceania (excluding Australia)
June	Visitors from Korea
July	Visitors from Australia
August	One million holidaymakers
September	Summary of events affecting external migration
October	Migration by birthplace (last paragraph)
November	Visitors from China
2000
March	Visitor arrivals from the USA by state
April	Visitor arrivals from Japan by prefecture
May	Visitor arrivals from the United Kingdom and Ireland
July	Purpose of visit: education/medical
August	International comparison of inbound visitors
October	Growing tourism markets
November	Visitors from China
December	Christmas travel
1999
April	Visitors from Australia
May	Visitors from the United States
June	Visitors from the United Kingdom
July	Visitors from Japan
August	Visitors from Asia
September	Visitors from Europe
October	Visitor arrivals from Australian states and territories

Resident departures

2007
December	Estimates of short-term travellers in and out of New Zealand (PDF, 110KB)
2002
January	New Zealand resident departures to Australia
2001
October	Migration by birthplace
2000
December	Christmas travel
1999
November	New Zealand resident short-term departures

Permanent and long-term migration

2008
May	Permanent and long-term migration to and from the United Kingdom (PDF, 33KB)
June	Permanent and long-term departure rates of New Zealand citizens (PDF, 178KB)
2007
October	Permanent and long-term migration from the Philippines (PDF, 184KB)
2003
September	Separate Capture of Permanent and Long-term Migrants
2002
March	Permanent and long-term migration by age
May	New Zealand citizen permanent and long-term arrivals
July	Coding of occupation (part 1)
August	Coding of occupation (part 2)
2001
May	Migration from New Zealand to Australia: an analysis by birthplace
October	Migration by birthplace
December	Permanent and long-term migration by New Zealand region
2000
January	Long-term migration by occupation
September	Trends in permanent and long-term migration
1999
December	Permanent and long-term migration

Other

2007
June	Tourism and Migration 2006
2006
June	Tourism and Migration 2005
2005
June	Tourism and Migration 2004
2004
June	Tourism and Migration 2003
June	New Processing System
August	Eight million arrivals and departures
2003
November	Tourism and Migration 2002
November	Seven million arrivals and departures
2002
September	Cruise ship passengers
October	Tourism and Migration 2001
2001
April	Availability of birthplace data
May	Migration from New Zealand to Australia: an analysis by birthplace
September	Summary of events affecting external migration
October	Migration by birthplace
2000
February	International air and sea travel
June	Six million arrivals and departures