Jobless number changes 'international best practice' - statistician
Labour MPs' attack on independent Statistics NZ backfires. With special feature adio.
Rob Hosking Thu, 18 Aug 2016
Changes to how Statistics New Zealand calculates labour market data is making the latest unemployment figure look better than it would otherwise be, the department says.
Statistics New Zealand was under uncommon attack this week from Labour Party politicians: Labour's finance spokesman Grant
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