Job vacancies advertised online for machinery operators and drivers in New Zealand

Skilled occupation: ANZSCO has five skill levels underlying its occupational structure. An occupation is a skilled occupation if it has an ANZSCO skill level of 3 (a skill level commensurate with an NCEA level 4 qualification) or above.
Industry: The industry groupings are derived by synthesising the common characteristics of the different job boards. These are self-selected by advertisers from a drop-down menu.

This series has NOT been seasonally adjusted.
The number of jobs is normalised to an index called All Vacancies Index. This was set at 100 for the December 2010 period.

As of December 2019 this dataset changed from monthly to quarterly.

At URL provided, select 'All the unadjusted data in the above Excel files is available in this consolidated file [XLSX, 78 KB]”'.

Jobs Online measures changes in job vacancies advertised by businesses on four internet job boards – SEEK, Trade Me Jobs and the Education Gazette, and Kiwi Health Jobs.

Jobs Online is an important new indicator of labour market conditions. One of its main advantages is that it is extremely up-to-date, with results being published within a couple of weeks of the end of the reference quarter. Jobs Online provides a robust early indicator of changes in the labour market.