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Latest Figures Confirm February Trade Surplus
Tuesday, 10 April 2001, 1:53 pm | Statistics New Zealand
The updated trade surplus for February 2001 is $379 million, according to latest figures released by Statistics New Zealand. This is 14.6 per cent of the value of exports for the month. Trade surpluses have occurred in 9 of the 10 previous February ... More >>
Retail Sales Trend Flattens
Friday, 6 April 2001, 11:48 am | Statistics New Zealand
Retail sales, when adjusted for seasonal variations, increased by 0.9 per cent in February 2001 compared with January 2001, according to Statistics New Zealand. This follows a fall in January 2001 compared with December 2000. Despite this monthly ... More >>
Information Technology Sales Growth Continues Sale
Friday, 30 March 2001, 4:41 pm | Statistics New Zealand
Sales of Information Technology (IT) goods and services were $11.1 billion for the 2000 financial year according to latest results from Statistics New Zealand's Information Technology Survey. This is an increase of 6.9 per cent from the previous year. Since ... More >>
Economy Grows 0.5 Per Cent
Friday, 30 March 2001, 11:03 am | Statistics New Zealand
Economic activity increased by 0.5 per cent in the December 2000 quarter, according to information released today by Statistics New Zealand. This follows a 0.8 per cent increase in the September quarter and a 1.0 per cent fall in the June quarter. For ... More >>
Census 2001 Processing Begins
Thursday, 29 March 2001, 3:09 pm | Statistics New Zealand
The task of compiling information from the 2001 Census began this week, with the scanning of 5.2 million census questionnaires, Government Statistician Brian Pink reports. More >>
Imports Growth Stalls
Tuesday, 27 March 2001, 1:23 pm | Statistics New Zealand
The value of merchandise imports for February 2001 is $2,207 million, according to latest figures released by Statistics New Zealand. The rate of growth in the imports trend declined over most of last year and has shown no growth since November 2000. More >>
Little Change in Residential Building Activity
Monday, 26 March 2001, 3:18 pm | Statistics New Zealand
There were 1,397 new dwelling units authorised in February 2001, according to Statistics New Zealand. The number of new dwellling units authorised in February 2001 increased 3.7 per cent from January 2001 when adjusted for seasonal variation, however the ... More >>
Increased Profits Drive Rise In BoP Deficit
Friday, 23 March 2001, 12:30 am | Statistics New Zealand
The current account deficit for the December 2000 quarter was $1.9 billion, Deputy Government Statistician Ian Ewing said today. After adjusting for seasonal factors, the current account deficit increased by $342 million, following two consecutive ... More >>
Overseas Visitors Up 4 Per Cent
Wednesday, 21 March 2001, 3:27 pm | Statistics New Zealand
In February 2001, there were 199,790 overseas visitors, an increase of 6,940 or 4 per cent on February 2000, according to latest figures from Statistics New Zealand. Holidaymakers accounted for 58 per cent of these visitors, while about 23 per cent ... More >>
Collection of Census Forms Almost Complete
Tuesday, 20 March 2001, 10:25 am | Statistics New Zealand
Most of the 5.2 million forms distributed for the 2001 Census of Population and Dwellings have now been collected, says Government Statistician Brian Pink. More >>
Local Authority Revenue Rises
Monday, 19 March 2001, 11:44 am | Statistics New Zealand
Local authorities' operating revenue rose during the December 2000 quarter, according to Statistics New Zealand's latest Quarterly Local Authority Survey. Seasonally adjusted operating revenue in the December 2000 quarter was $969.5 million, an increase of ... More >>
Trade Surplus Confirmed
Wednesday, 14 March 2001, 2:05 pm | Statistics New Zealand
The updated trade surplus for January 2001 is $108 million, according to latest figures released by Statistics New Zealand. This is 4.6 per cent of the value of exports for the month. Surpluses, averaging 3.1 per cent of exports, have occurred in seven ... More >>
Futures Daily Market Report 13/3/01
Tuesday, 13 March 2001, 5:44 pm | Statistics New Zealand
There was heavy trading on the New Zealand Futures & Options Exchange today involving 6514 futures contracts traded with a face value of NZ$3.25 billion. More >>
Manufacturing Sales Continue To Rise
Tuesday, 13 March 2001, 3:51 pm | Statistics New Zealand
Seasonally adjusted manufacturing sales rose by $557 million or 3.8 per cent to $15,342 million in the December 2000 quarter when compared with the previous quarter, according to Statistics New Zealand's latest Quarterly Manufacturing Survey. The trend in manufacturing ... More >>
Food Prices Rise 0.5 Per Cent
Tuesday, 13 March 2001, 11:40 am | Statistics New Zealand
Food prices rose 0.5 per cent between January and February 2001, and are 5.7 per cent higher than in February 2000, according to Statistics New Zealand. This latest annual increase is the ninth in a row and the largest since July 1990, when an increase ... More >>
Record Guest Nights
Monday, 12 March 2001, 3:15 pm | Statistics New Zealand
Guests spent 3.8 million nights in short-term accommodation during January 2001, according to Statistics New Zealand's Accommodation Survey. This figure is 9 per cent above January 2000 levels, and is the highest monthly total for guest nights ... More >>
Export Volumes Up
Monday, 12 March 2001, 12:35 am | Statistics New Zealand
Merchandise export volumes recorded a seasonally adjusted increase of 1.8 per cent in the December 2000 quarter, according to latest Overseas Trade Indexes released by Statistics New Zealand. Increased volumes of dairy products (up 5.5 per cent), ... More >>
Retail Sales Flat In January
Monday, 12 March 2001, 12:34 am | Statistics New Zealand
Seasonally adjusted retail sales declined by 0.3 per cent in January 2001, according to Statistics New Zealand. This is a decline of $13 million compared to December 2000. However, when the motor vehicle services storetype (67 per cent of which comprises ... More >>
Census Forms Are Being Collected
Wednesday, 7 March 2001, 4:41 pm | Statistics New Zealand
Census forms will be collected over the next ten days, thereby beginning the second stage of the country's largest survey to count our population and dwellings. More >>
Gas, Electricity Production Increases
Tuesday, 6 March 2001, 5:00 pm | Statistics New Zealand
There were 244,000 terajoules of gas produced in New Zealand in the year ended December 2000, according to Statistics New Zealand. This is up 4.4 per cent on the 234,000 terajoules produced in the year ended December 1999. More >>
