Support Services
Workforce Demographics
- The Other Agricultural and Fishing Support Services workforce is more ethnically diverse than other Support Services industries having the greatest proportion of workers identifying as Asian or Pacific peoples. Many of the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) workers are counted in this industry as they work for contractors supplying labour to the horticulture and viticulture industries
- The Support Services industries has one of the youngest workforces across Muka Tangata industries, with around half the workforce aged under 35 since 2015.
- Around one third of the workforce in Landscape Construction Services live in the Auckland region, and around one fifth of the Other Agricultural and Fishing Support Services workforce live in the Bay of Plenty.
Workforce dataset (size and demographics) 
Source: Stats NZ Integrated Data Infrastructure
In these charts, we provide two benchmarks for reference: 'agriculture, forestry and fishing' which covers all industries involved in growing crops, raising animals, growing and harvesting timber, and harvesting fish and other animals from farms or their natural habitats, and a benchmark for 'all industries' which includes every industry group in New Zealand.