For a second consecutive month, seasonally adjusted population gains from migration were well down from the monthly gains in 2009 when the global financial crisis was having a big impact on people's movements.Figures from Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) toda
For a second consecutive month, seasonally adjusted population gains from migration were well down from the monthly gains in 2009 when the global financial crisis was having a big impact on people's movements.
Figures from Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) today put seasonally adjusted net migration at 1000 last month. That was the same level as February, but down from the monthly average of 1900 between February 2009 and January 2010.
On an unadjusted basis, permanent and long term (PLT) departures exceeded arrivals by 300 in March, compared to an inflow of 300 a year earlier. Net outflows of 1000 were recorded in the months of March 2007 and 2008.
Despite the unadjusted net decline last month, the net outflow of 1800 PLT migrants to Australia was down from 2300 in March 2009, and the lowest outflow for a March month since 2006, SNZ said.
For the year to March the net migration gain was 21,000, well up from 7500 a year earlier but down from 22,600 in the 12 months to January this year, which was the highest annual net gain since the May 2004 year.
