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New Zealand Unemployment Rate

New Zealand Unemployment Rate 3 May 2016

New Zealand Unemployment Rate 3 May 2016: 5.7% for Q1 2016, above the 5.5% forecast and against 5.4% in Q4 2015 (first reported as 5.3%). It was released on Tue 3 May 2016 at 22:45 UTC.

These figures were verified on 4 Oct 2026 from the source: Statistics New Zealand. This page reports the release as published: the figures, the consensus forecast and what a print like it usually does to the currency.

Actual
5.7%
Q1 2016
Forecast
5.5%
The market consensus
Previous
5.4%
As the source gives it

What a print like this usually does

Above the forecast: An unemployment rate above forecast usually weakens the NZD as traders price in more labour-market slack and possible RBNZ easing.

New Zealand Unemployment Rate 3 May 2016: 5.7% for Q1 2016 against a 5.5% forecast, with the last 6 releases
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New Zealand Unemployment Rate 3 May 2016: 5.7% vs 5.5% forecast (Statistics New Zealand). Forex Fundamentals, https://forexfundamentals.com/economic-calendar/nz-unemployment/2016-05-03

The last 6 releases · times in UTC
ReleasedForActualForecastPrevious
3 May 2016Q15.7%5.5%5.4%
2 Feb 2016Q45.3%6.1%6%
3 Nov 2015Q36%6.0%5.9%
4 Aug 2015Q25.9%5.9%5.8%
5 May 2015Q15.8%5.5%5.8%(R)
3 Feb 2015Q45.7%—5.4%
The release before:New Zealand Unemployment Rate 2 February 2016The release after:New Zealand Unemployment Rate 16 August 2016New Zealand Unemployment Rate: every recent resultThis week’s economic calendar