WELLINGTON, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- More than one in 20 people employed in New Zealand have a second job, and people who have a second job tend to be middle-aged, or aged 45 or older, the country's statistics department Stats NZ said on Monday.
In contrast, younger workers tend to hold just one job, Stats NZ said.
About 2.5 million people were employed in the June 2017 quarter, of which 154,200, or 6.1 percent, said they had two or more jobs, according to the Household Labor Force Survey.
In the June 2017 quarter, more than half of people with two jobs or more were at least 45 years old, the survey said, adding that single job holders were typically younger with more than half of them under 45.
A greater proportion of multiple job holders were either female, which was 54 percent, or aged 45 and over, which was 57 percent, or of European ethnicity, which was 84 percent, or in a household with dependent children, which made up 38 percent, according to the survey.
"The majority of multiple job holders tend to be of an age at which they are more likely to have mortgages and dependent children, although financial pressure could be one of many reasons for holding a second job," labor and income statistics manager Sean Broughton said in a statement.
