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Story: Manufacturing – an overview

Employment in manufacturing by region, 2001

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Employment in manufacturing by region, 2001

This chart shows the percentage of full-time employees in manufacturing industries in the different regions. With more than 35% of the workforce Auckland has over twice as many industrial workers as the next largest region, Canterbury, with 15.5%.

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Source: New Zealand Official Yearbook, 2002

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Ian Hunter, Manufacturing – an overview – Global focus, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/3712/employment-in-manufacturing-by-region-2001 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ian Hunter, published 3 March 2009.