Vital Statistics
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GDP
(average growth for year to Sep 09)
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-2.2%
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CPI
(Sep 09 incr on Sep 08) |
1.7%
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Current account balance
(year to Sep 09, % of GDP) |
-3.1%
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Unemployment
(Sep 09) |
6.5%
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Employment
(Sep 09 change on Sep 08) |
-1.8%
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19 Aug 2008
Title: An Assessment of the Barriers to the Labour Market in the Far North District
Client: Far North District Council and the Department of Labour
Author(s): Fiona Stokes, Adrian Slack, and David Norman
On behalf of the Far North District Council and the Department of Labour, BERL undertook an assessment of the barriers to the effective integration of the Far North labour market.
Between »»
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30 May 2008
Client: NZ Horticulture Industry Training Organisation
Date: May 2008
Authors: Dr Ganesh Nana, Adrian Slack
This report provides an analysis of the fields of study of people working in the horticulture industry. It is an extension to BERL’s December 2007 industry projections. The tabulated figures in this note are consistent with those provided in the December 2007 report.
BERL ref »»
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04 Jun 2008
Client: Selwyn District Council
Date: May 2008
Authors: David Norman, Dr Ganesh Nana, Kel Sanderson
This project involved developing an Excel-based model of population, household, and employment growth in the Selwyn District to 2041. The project made use of econometric analysis in order to forecast growth. It included a range of factors that could prevent the forecast »»
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07 Apr 2008
Client: Central Otago District Council
Date: April 2008
Author(s): Jason Leung-Wai; Dr Ganesh Nana
A regional profile and performance report looking at Central Otago District's key performance indicators (GDP, productivity, employment, and business size/creation) over the period 1997 to 2007 compared to New Zealand. The report also provides an industry analysis looking at the fastest »»
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28 Jul 2008
Client: Career Services rapuara
Date: 2007/2008
Author(s): na
BERL and Career Services rapuara have established a relationship through previous work undertaken. This work is a continuation of this relationship. Between June 2007 and July 2008, BERL provided Career Services with quarterly economic outlook reports, a monthly hit list of ‘hot’ economic issues for Career »»
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16 Jul 2008
Client: Privately commissioned
Date: June 2008
Authors: David Norman, Dr Ganesh Nana, Jason Leung-Wai, Kel Sanderson
This report compared changes in household income and spending over the nine years to 2007. It examined the increase in income for a “typical” New Zealand household, including where it sourced its income (family support / working for families, accommodation »»
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17 Nov 2008
Client: RED Trust
Date: November 2008
Author(s): Jason Leung-Wai; Dr Ganesh Nana; Michael Webster
This report provides an economic profile of the Rangitikei, Wanganui, Ruapehu region in 2007 and its performance over the last 10 years. It also provides a detailed analysis of six key industries and projections of employment and GDP to 2026 by industry at the ANZSIC 1 »»
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10 Nov 2008
Client: Wairarapa EDA
Date: November 2008
Author(s): Jason Leung-Wai; Dr Ganesh Nana; Fiona Stokes
This report provides an economic profile of the Wairarapa Region in 2007 and its performance over the last 10 years. It also provides a detailed analysis of six key industries and projections of employment and GDP to 2026 by industry at the ANZSIC 1 digit »»
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29 Apr 2008
Client: Dunedin City Council
Date: April 2008
Authors: David Norman, Dr Ganesh Nana
A profile on Dunedin City for 2007, the report considered a range of short and long-term indicators of the City’s economic health. The report went on to consider the largest and fastest-growing industries in the City in terms of employment and GDP. It highlighted »»
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28 Jul 2008
Client: FITEC
Date: July 2008
Authors: Kel Sanderson, Fiona Stokes
FITEC is the Industry Training Organisation (ITO) for the forest industries. In 2008, BERL surveyed the forest industry on behalf of FITEC to ascertain the training requirements of the industry to 2011.
A strong response to the BERL FITEC Survey was received, with 50 to 60 percent of the industry responding. The key »»
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19 Aug 2008
Title: Maori in the Taranaki region: an economic profile
Client: Venture Taranaki Trust / Tui Ora Limited
Author(s): Jason Leung-Wai; Kel Sanderson
This report provides a macro-economic picture of the Maori based economy and the role it does and could potentially play in the wider Taranaki economy.
Firstly, as a resource, the report identifies and discusses the assets of »»
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11 Nov 2008
Client: Taranaki District Health Board
Date: November 2008
Author(s): Jason Leung-Wai; Kel Sanderson
This report provides a snapshot of the socioeconomic profile of Maori in the Taranaki region. A major objective of this report was to identify regional data that would be useful to the TDHB in formulating their Maori health strategy.
BERL's view ist that there are a number of »»
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30 May 2008
Client: Te Puni Kokiri
Date: May 2008
Authors: Dr Ganesh Nana, Kel Sanderson
This report summarises the derivation of, and findings from, a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for the New Zealand economy for the 2005/06 year. In particular, the SAM constructed for this report separately identifies the participation of the Maori households sector and the Maori producer enterprises sector. It also »»
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28 Jul 2008
Client: Marlborough Development Trust
Date: July 2008
Authors: David Norman, Jason Leung-Wai, Dr Ganesh Nana
This project estimated total employment, GDP and business units for several industry clusters in the Marlborough Region including pastoral, horticulture and wine, aviation, aquaculture and seafood, tourism, forestry.
It also provided output (revenue) figures for the component »»
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28 Feb 2008
Client: Department of Labour
Date: February 2008
Authors: Dr Ganesh Nana, Kel Sanderson
This project aims to identify the labour market outcomes of migrant groups to New Zealand. It also investigates whether differences in such outcomes can be explained by differing characteristics of the various migrant groups.
We investigate the relationships between basic labour market characteristics and »»
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30 May 2008
Client: Nature Coast Enterprise
Date: May 2008
Authors: Dr Ganesh Nana, Jiani Wu
This project provides an economic profile of the Nature Coast, which is made up of the Kapiti and Horowhenua districts. The profile consists of a summary of 2006 Census data on Nature Coast region, an update of the BERL regional profile data for 2007, and commentary on statistics releases applicable to the Nature »»
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20 Jun 2008
Client: The New Zealand Police
Date: April 2008
Authors: Adrian Slack, Des O’Dea, Ian Sheerin, Ganesh Nana, Jiani Wu and David Norman
This research developed a metric of the social harm caused by illicit drug consumption in New Zealand. Harms related to drug use include a wide range of tangible costs such as crime, lost output, health service use and other diverted resources. It also »»
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09 Apr 2008
Client: North Shore City Council
Date: March 2008
Author(s): Jason Leung-Wai; Dr Ganesh Nana; Jiani Wu
A regional profile and performance report looking at North Shore City's key performance indicators (GDP, productivity, employment, and business size/creation) over the period 1997 to 2007 compared to New Zealand. The report provides an industry analysis looking at the fastest growing and »»
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31 May 2008
Client: Enterprise Ashburton
Date: May 2008
Authors: David Norman, Dr Ganesh Nana
This report looked at the contributions to total GDP of various sectors in the Ashburton economy. It also looked in greater detail at the tourism, sheep and beef, dairy, and arable sectors. It examined the industries most reliant on these sectors to absorb their outputs, and the industries on which these »»
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23 Jul 2008
Client: Porirua City Council
Date: July 2008
Authors: David Norman, Jason Leung-Wai, Dr Ganesh Nana
A profile on Porirua City for 2007, the report considered a range of short and long-term indicators of the City’s economic health. It looked in-depth at employment, GDP, labour productivity, business units, and business size growth in the City over a 10-year period.
The report also »»
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31 Jul 2008
Client: Rodney District Council
Date: July 2008
Authors: Jiani Wu, David Norman, Dr Ganesh Nana
This report looked at a range of key performance indicators such as employment, GDP, labour productivity and business units in detail.
It also discussed the fastest-growing industries in the District in terms of employment and GDP, before focusing on industries that are particularly concentrated in »»
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25 Aug 2008
Client: Upper Hutt City Council
Date: August 2008
Authors: David Norman, Jason Leung-Wai, Dr Ganesh Nana
A profile on Upper Hutt City for 2007, the report considered a range of short and long-term indicators of the City’s economic health. It looked in-depth at employment, GDP, labour productivity, business units, and business size growth in the City over a 10-year period. It also »»
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28 Jul 2008
Client: Horowhenua District Council
Date:
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The Horowhenua District Council is proposing to upgrade the wastewater treatment and disposal system in Shannon. This report assessed whether the Shannon ratepayers could afford the proposed upgrade.
It examined the demographics of Shannon, including household incomes and labour force status, the relative deprivation of the »»
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05 Sep 2008
Client: Thames-Coromandel District Council
Date: August 2008
Authors: David Norman, Dr Ganesh Nana
This report provided projections of the expected changes in rating units from 2009 to 2019 for the Thames-Coromandel District. It also provided projections of the likely composition of the change in rating units, as well as projections of the change in dwellings. Projections of rating units will »»
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25 Jun 2008
Client: Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki
Date: June 2008
Authors: Jason Leung-Wai; Dr Ganesh Nana; Jiani Wu; Fiona Stokes
This report provided a baseline for estimating the future demand for qualifications and occupations in key driver industries in the Taranaki region. The report was a key document in pulling together WITT's Statement of Regional Needs for »»
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19 Aug 2008
Title: The Economic Contribution of the Forest Industry to the Marlborough Region
Client: Marlborough Forest Industry Association
Author(s): Jason Leung-Wai, Fiona Stokes, and David Norman
This report summarises the economic contribution of the Marlborough forestry industry to the Marlborough regional economy. The Marlborough forestry industry is made up of two sectors: the forestry and »»
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23 Jul 2008
Client: Grow Wellington
Date: July 2008
Authors: Jason Leung-Wai, David Norman
This report, commissioned by Grow Wellington, the economic development agency for the Wellington Region, had three purposes.
First, it provided an overview of the current state of the food and beverage sector in the Region in terms of employment and business units at a sub-sector level.
Second, it looked at trends »»
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24 Jun 2008
Client: Waitakere City Council
Date: June 2008
Author(s): Jason Leung-Wai; David Norman
A regional profile and performance report looking at Waitakere City's key performance indicators (GDP, employment, and business size/creation) over the period 1997 to 2007 compared to the Auckland region and New Zealand. The report provides an industry analysis looking at the fastest growing and largest »»
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29 Apr 2008
Client: Waitaki Development Board
Date: April 2008
Authors: David Norman, Dr Ganesh Nana
A profile on the Waitaki District for 2007, the report considered a range of short and long-term indicators of the District’s economic health. The report went on to consider the growth of tourism, the simultaneous rise of dairy and decline of sheep farming, and recent education and »»
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30 Jun 2008
Client: Grow Wellington
Date: June 2008
Authors: David Norman, Jason Leung-Wai, Dr Ganesh Nana
This report updated and expanded on the report done the year before for the predecessor of Grow Wellington, Positively Wellington Business. It looked at the contribution of the region’s industries to local employment, GDP and business units in 2007, and their growth over the last 10 »»
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23 Jun 2008
Client: Taranaki Regional Council
Date: June 2008
Authors: Jiani Wu, Kel Sanderson
This report is an update of our previous work on “Community Investment in Environmental Improvements” completed in 2002” (project reference #4179). The report quantifies the investments made by the broad Taranaki community in improvements to the environment, as well as the annual costs of »»
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04 Jun 2008
Client: Development West Coast
Date: May 2008
Authors: David Norman, Jason Leung-Wai, Dr Ganesh Nana
A profile of the West Coast Region for 2007, the report considered a range of short and long-term indicators of the District’s economic and social health. This report re-visited a broad range of measures examined for the Region over the two previous years. These included key economic »»
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Client: New Zealand Licensing Trusts Association (NZLTA)
Authors: Jiani Wu, Dr Ganesh Nana
This project was commissioned by the New Zealand Licensing Trusts Association (NZLTA). The research provides estimates of the economic contribution of three selected licensing trusts to their respective local districts. Their economic contributions are presented in both value added (i.e. »»
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Client: New Zealand Society of Local Government Managers
Authors: Jiani Wu, David Norman, Dr Ganesh Nana
It provides median household income projections by household composition to 2009, 2014, and 2019. Projections are provided at a national level as well as for the 16 Regions.
The projections of household income are based on wage rate growth projections, which came from »»
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