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New Zealand Unemployment Rate

New Zealand Unemployment Rate 1 November 2022

New Zealand Unemployment Rate 1 November 2022: 3.3% for Q3 2022, above the 3.2% forecast and unchanged from 3.3% in Q2 2022. It is the second release in a row above the forecast. It was released on Tue 1 Nov 2022 at 21:45 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
3.3%
Q3 2022
Forecast
3.2%
The market consensus
Previous
3.3%
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 1 November 2022: 3.3% for Q3 2022 against a 3.2% forecast, with the last 12 releases
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New Zealand Unemployment Rate 1 November 2022: 3.3% vs 3.2% forecast (Statistics New Zealand). Forex Fundamentals, https://forexfundamentals.com/economic-calendar/nz-unemployment/2022-11-01

The last 12 releases · times in UTC
ReleasedForActualForecastPrevious
1 Nov 2022Q33.3%3.2%3.3%
2 Aug 2022Q23.3%3.1%3.2%
3 May 2022Q13.2%3.2%3.2%
1 Feb 2022Q43.2%3.4%3.4%
2 Nov 2021Q33.4%3.9%4%
3 Aug 2021Q24%4.5%4.7%
4 May 2021Q14.7%4.9%4.9%
2 Feb 2021Q44.9%5.6%5.3%
3 Nov 2020Q35.3%5.4%4%
4 Aug 2020Q24.0%5.8%4.2%
5 May 2020Q14.2%4.3%4%
4 Feb 2020Q44%4.2%4.2%
The release before:New Zealand Unemployment Rate 2 August 2022The release after:New Zealand Unemployment Rate 31 January 2023New Zealand Unemployment Rate: every recent resultThis week’s economic calendar