Funeral directors/embalmers organise and direct funerals, register deaths, and prepare human bodies for visits by families, and burial or cremation.

In 2018 there were 69 people aged 29-38 in this occupation.

Source: Statistics New Zealand Census 2018 (Universities NZ analysis)

Highest qualification

• People currently employed as Funeral Directors have qualifications at a variety of levels.
• 10.5% of current Funeral Director(s) aged between 29 - 38 years of age have a degree/level 7 qualification as their highest qualification.
• <1% have postgraduate qualifications.
• 42.1% have no post-school qualifications and 47.4% have a level 4 - 6 certificate or diploma.

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