Selected Health Professional Workforce in New Zealand 2002

Selected Health Professional Workforce in New Zealand 2002
A New Zealand Health Information Service (NZHIS) publication

Date of publication: April 2003

The New Zealand Health Information Service has maintained the New Zealand selected health professional workforce data collection since 1995.

This publication contains data about the active selected health professional workforce in New Zealand in both the public and private sectors who were sent invoices for an Annual Practising Certificate or an Annual Licence in February 2002. The data was obtained by means of a questionnaire which accompanied the invoice for each Certificate or Licence.

The professions included are:

optometrists
dispensing opticians
chiropractors
dietitians
medical laboratory technologists
medical radiation technologists
occupational therapists
podiatrists
physiotherapists, and
registered psychologists.

Data presented for each profession consists of numbers, age, sex distribution, ethnicity, employment setting, work type, country of qualification, and number of hours worked.

Document availability

You can download the full publication as a PDF file (680 kB) from the NZHIS website.

Copies are priced at $15 each (including GST and postage) and can be ordered from the Publications Officer, NZHIS, PO Box 5013, Wellington, phone (04) 922 1800, fax (04) 922 1899.

Published: 2003
92 pages, A5
$15.00
ISBN: 0-478-25654-X

The 2000 and 1999 issues of this publication are also available in PDF format.

Go to the NZHIS website.

Related information:

NZHIS publications

Workforce publications