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Story: Manufacturing – an overview

Employment by industry type, 2001

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Employment by industry type, 2001

This chart shows the percentage of workers (calculated as full-time equivalent persons) employed in the different kinds of manufacturing in New Zealand in 2001. The importance of food and drink processing, which employed over a quarter of the industrial workers, is apparent.

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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/3829/employment-by-industry-type-2001 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ian Hunter, published 3 March 2009.