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New Zealand Business Demography Statistics: At February 2012
New Zealand Business Demography Statistics: At
February 2012 key facts
Compared with February
2011, provisional figures at February 2012 showed:
• There were 469,120 enterprises in New Zealand, a
decrease of 0.8 percent.
• Enterprise deaths exceeded
enterprise births for the third consecutive year.
• There were 1.93 million paid employees (not an
official employment statistic), an increase of 0.7 percent.
• Manufacturing remained the largest employer (224,200
employees) but the number of enterprises in this industry
fell 1.8 percent.
• Non-employing enterprises
continued to dominate enterprise numbers, accounting for 69
percent of the total.
• The number of paid employees
in enterprises with 100 or more employees rose 1.1 percent.
• The number of business locations in the Christchurch
central business district fell 34.6 percent, but the city as
a whole had only a 2.5 percent decline.
Attached is information about the statistics released today.
Media release (pdf) Information release (pdf) Tables (xls)
(See attached file: BusinessDemographyStatisticsFeb12MR.pdf)(See attached file: BusinessDemographyStatisticsFeb12.pdf)(See attached file: nz-bd-2012-tables.xls)
BusinessDemographyStatisticsFeb12MR.pdf
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