NZ Immigration shows upturn in April 09
To the tune of 500 more permanent arrivals per week than departures in April.
Not a big number you might say in US or English terms, but remember our little part of the world accounts for something like 0.064% of the planets population, so in light of the current climate, even a number like this is notable.
I have contended for a while now the two real dynamics over the next few quarters will be the ongoing immigration & unemployment situation.
Statistics NZ report today that on
A seasonally adjusted basis, PLT arrivals exceeded PLT departures by 2,200 in April 2009, up from 1,700 in March 2009 and 1,600 in February 2009. These figures are all well above the average of 400 recorded for the 25-month period from January 2007–2009.
And as a result they state there was an annual net gain of 9,200 in the April 2009 year, up from 4,700 in the April 2008 year.
Contrary to what was earlier anticipated, they report that there wasn’t much variation to numbers of returning NZ citizens. By mentioning no perceptible difference on this front it is still a bit of an unknown.
Why do I say unknown, simply because of the fact that NZ has such an incredibly high percentage of its citizens in an ex-pat capacity offshore at any one given moment in time.
Should, in light of global fiscal eventualities, or other local or world event, a percentage of them consider to want to move back home, then a different outcome than that which normal economic forecasting would more than likely result.
So I will be anxiously awaiting further Immigration updates from Stats NZ as the year progress.
May 21 2009 04:33 pm | New Zealand
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