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New Zealand Unemployment Rate

New Zealand Unemployment Rate 31 July 2018

New Zealand Unemployment Rate 31 July 2018: 4.5% for Q2 2018, above the 4.4% forecast and up from 4.4% in Q1 2018. 3 of the last 12 releases came in above the forecast. It was released on Tue 31 Jul 2018 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
4.5%
Q2 2018
Forecast
4.4%
The market consensus
Previous
4.4%
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 31 July 2018: 4.5% for Q2 2018 against a 4.4% forecast, with the last 12 releases
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The last 12 releases · times in UTC
ReleasedForActualForecastPrevious
31 Jul 2018Q24.5%4.4%4.4%
1 May 2018Q14.4%4.4%4.5%
6 Feb 2018Q44.5%4.6%4.6%
31 Oct 2017Q34.6%4.7%4.8%
1 Aug 2017Q24.8%4.8%4.9%
2 May 2017Q14.9%5.2%5.2%
31 Jan 2017Q45.2%4.8%4.9%
1 Nov 2016Q34.9%5.1%5.0%
16 Aug 2016Q25.1%5.3%5.2%
3 May 2016Q15.7%5.5%5.4%
2 Feb 2016Q45.3%6.1%6%
3 Nov 2015Q36%6.0%5.9%
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