# Migrant Employment Data - Standard datasets
# September 2025 release

## Output description

This workbook contains a number of 'standard' datasets produced as part of the Migrant Employment Data. These datasets should provide a good high-level overview of migrants employed within New Zealand, while remaining broadly applicable for a number of purposes.

This release contains finalised data between January 2012 and May 2025 inclusive, and provisional data between June 2025 and September 2025 inclusive.

## Stats NZ Disclaimer

Further descriptions of the data in this workbook, along with the assumptions made in assembling this data, and the caveats that accompany it, can be found in our data dictionary. This should have been provided to you alongside this release. If you require a copy of this data dictionary, or if you have questions about the Migrant Employment Data series, please get in touch through migration_evidence_insights@mbie.govt.nz.

The Migrant Employment Data is produced from the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI), managed by Stats NZ. These results are not official statistics. They have been created for research purposes from the IDI. The opinions, findings, recommendations, and conclusions expressed in this report are those of the authors, not Stats NZ.

Access to the data used in this study was provided by Stats NZ under conditions designed to give effect to the security and confidentiality provisions of the Data and Statistics Act 2022. The results presented in this study are the work of the author, not Stats NZ or individual data suppliers.

Careful consideration has been given to the privacy, security and confidentiality issues associated with using administrative and survey data in the IDI. Further detail can be found in the Privacy impact assessment for the IDI available from www.stats.govt.nz.
