Employees in the wholesale trade industry in New Zealand
By business type, as at February 2018, number of employees
Definitions
Enterprises: A business or service entity operating in New Zealand. It can be a company, partnership, trust, estate, incorporated society, producer board, local or central government organisation, voluntary organisation or self-employed individual.
Employee Count: Employee count is a head-count of all salary and wage earners for the February reference month.
Business Type: Business type is the legal status of an enterprise. An enterprise is an institutional unit in it's capacity as a producer of goods and services; an enterprise may be a corporation, a quasi-corporation, a non-profit institution, or an incorporated enterprise.
For more information
http://datainfoplus.stats.govt.nz/Item/nz.govt.stats/bdb02aa2-866e-418f-83e8-342234867a0f
Limitations of the data
There are a number of limitations associated with business demography data. These limitations include:
- Non-coverage of 'small' enterprises that fall below the economic significance criteria on Statistics New Zealand's Business Register (BR).
- Lags in recording business births and deaths.
- Difficulties in maintaining industrial and business classifications for smaller firms (that are primarily maintained using administrative data).
Inclusions
Business demography statistics are limited to economically significant individual, private-sector and public-sector enterprises that are engaged in the production of goods and services in New Zealand. These enterprises are maintained on the Statistics New Zealand's Business Register, which generally includes all employing units and those enterprises with GST turnover greater than $30,000 per year.
Changes to data collection/processing
Up to 2015 business demography sereies was based on the Statistic New Zealand Longitudinal Business Frame (LBF).
From 2016 business demography series is based on the Statistic New Zealand Business Register (BR).
Data provided by
Dataset name
Business Demography Statistics: Enterprises by business type and industry 2018
Webpage:
http://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz/WBOS/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TABLECODE7606
How to find the data
Data is displayed at URL provided. To create this dataset, all variables were selected.
Import & extraction details
File as imported: Business Demography Statistics: Enterprises by business type and industry 2018
From the dataset Business Demography Statistics: Enterprises by business type and industry 2018, this data was extracted:
- Rows: 2-9,747
- Column: 5
- Provided: 9,746 data points
This data forms the table Business - Enterprises and employees by business type and industry 2000–2018.
Dataset originally released on:
October 26, 2018
About this dataset
Business demographic statistics give an annual snapshot (as at February) of the structure and characteristics of New Zealand businesses.