JUNE 2015
Westpac : McDermott Miller NZ Employment Confidence Survey
29 JUNE 2015
“Employment confidence in
“There has been a loss of confidence across the
board” said Richard Miller, “with almost all regions, demographic groups and
income groups of employees less optimistic than they were in March 2015.”
Only a handful of regions remain optimistic
about employment
The regions who are most pessimistic about employment
are Waikato (down 10.4 to 96.9), Northland (down 10.1 to 90.2) and
“Public Sector employees are now pessimistic
(down 9.5 points this quarter to 96.1 CCI), while Private Sector employees
retain their optimism (but down 3.2 points to 107.6 CCI). Uncertainty about the effectiveness of
government policy in stimulating growth over the coming year could underlie the
conjectured shift”, suggested Richard Miller.
Enquiries to:
Richard
Miller
Managing
Director
McDermott
Miller Limited
Phone:
04 471 8502
Email: strategies@mcdermottmiller.co.nz
Website:
http://www.mcdermottmiller.co.nz/
Email: strategies@mcdermottmiller.co.nz
Website: www.mcdermottmiller.co.nz
Index Background
The Consumer Confidence Index is based on a survey of a
representative sample of 1581
Acknowledgement
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