Reasons for not wanting to seek work for people who are not in the New Zealand labour force

By sex, excluding people who have not specified reasons, 2018 Q2, thousands of people

About this data

Definitions

Not in the labour force: any person in the working-age population who is neither employed nor unemployed. For example, this residual category includes people who:
- are retired
- have personal or family responsibilities such as unpaid housework and childcare
- attend educational institutions
- are permanently unable to work due to physical or mental disabilities,
- were temporarily unavailable for work in the survey reference week
- are not actively seeking work.

Data calculation/treatment

Respondents are asked for the reasons for not wanting work if they answer 'No' to all of the following questions:
- Whether they have a job
- Whether they are looking for work
- Whether they want to work

For more information

http://datainfoplus.stats.govt.nz/Item/nz.govt.stats/b7c39358-aa03-446f-a27d-91c37caac35d#/nz.govt.stats/b7c39358-aa03-446f-a27d-91c37caac35d

Changes to data collection/processing

In the June quarter of 2016 a redeveloped version of the Household Labour Force Survey went into the field. The key purpose of the 2016 Household Labour Force Survey redevelopment was to improve the relevance and quality of the labour market statistics.
The new content includes more information about the nature of people’s employment conditions and work arrangements. This data can be used to better understand different patterns of employment.
The redeveloped HLFS also includes more detail from respondents who work in more than one job during a reference week. Multiple job holders are asked about the industry, occupation, employment status, and hours of their second job. Until now, the HLFS collected these details only on the respondents’ main job.

Data provided by

Stats NZ

Dataset name

Household Labour Force Survey: Not in Labour Force by Sex by Reason for Not Wanting Work (Quarterly) June 2018

Webpage:

http://archive.stats.govt.nz/infoshare/

How to find the data

At URL provided, select 'Work income and spending > Household Labour Force Survey - HLF > Not in LF by Sex by Reason for Not Wanting Work (Qrtly-Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec)'. All variables were selected in order to create this dataset.

Import & extraction details

File as imported: Household Labour Force Survey: Not in Labour Force by Sex by Reason for Not Wanting Work (Quarterly) June 2018

From the dataset Household Labour Force Survey: Not in Labour Force by Sex by Reason for Not Wanting Work (Quarterly) June 2018 , this data was extracted:

Rows: 4-12
Columns: 2-28
Provided: 243 data points

This data forms the table Labour Force - Reason for not wanting to seek work for people not in labour force by sex 2016 Q2–2018 Q2.

Dataset originally released on:

August 01, 2018

Purpose of collection

The primary purpose of the survey is to estimate the number of people employed, unemployed, and not in the labour force (NILF), and from them, the unemployment rate for the New Zealand labour market. The Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) is designed to produce statistics at the family level, and use of the survey for a purpose for which it was not designed is inevitably subject to some limitations.