Infometrics economic insights can assist higher education stakeholders to effectively tailor their academic programs to contribute to regional economic development by producing a skilled workforce that meets labor market demands. This alignment is crucial for maintaining long-term sustainability and safeguard against skill shortages or oversupply in certain sectors.

Infometrics Economic Impact Assessment Tool can estimate the economic contribution your organisation makes to your regional economy through your operational expenditure on local suppliers, and through the household spending of your staff and students. We express your economic contribution in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the number of jobs that are sustained. We can also specify which industries benefit most from your economic contribution. If you operate across multiple campuses in multiple regions, we can carry out a national economic contribution analysis and an analysis for each region.

We can also perform similar analyses on major events such as graduation ceremonies and conferences, as well major construction projects such as new student accommodation.

If you have an in-house economic impact assessment tool, we offer independent, expert peer review of your tool.

Combining your unique qualification delivery profile with available literature on the broader social and economic benefits of local tertiary education providers, we can examine your contribution to such things as increasing the retention of young people in your region, lowering youth inactivity, raising workforce skill levels and earnings, meeting local skill needs, reducing the severity and prevalence of skill shortages and raising firm productivity.

We can combine data on graduate earnings, and data you have on graduate retention within your region, with our own regional GDP estimates to estimate the economic contribution of your graduates to your local economy.

Infometrics estimates NEET rates for Regional Council areas and Territorial Authorities across New Zealand.

• Infometrics Sector Profiles, Regional Economic Profiles and Population Projections are available on a subscription basis. These products are designed to empower your team with critical data, in-depth analysis, and insightful information that can be transformed into impactful, actionable strategies.
• Do you need specialist knowledge? Infometrics consulting provides data-driven insights, strategic planning, and policy recommendations to help tertiary education stakeholders align with regional economic development policies.

Infometrics offers a suite of subscription-based applications, presented as dashboards, designed to provide your team with data, analysis and insights that can be built into practical, actionable strategies.