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Reduced Card Spending In February During COVID-19 Restrictions
Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 10:44 am | Statistics New Zealand
Kiwis’ spending fell across the board in February, Stats NZ said today. There was a fall in electronic card spending between January and February 2021. Seasonally adjusted total electronic card spending fell by $256 million (3.2 percent). “COVID-19 ... More >>
Construction Sales Rise By Almost $900 Million In December Quarter
Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 11:06 am | Statistics New Zealand
Construction sales reached $19.6 billion in the December 2020 quarter, up $897 million (4.8 percent) from the December 2019 quarter, in part driven by home building, Stats NZ said today. This followed a $1.6 billion (8.9 percent) year-on-year increase for ... More >>
December 2020 Quarter Gross Domestic Product And COVID-19
Friday, 5 March 2021, 12:06 pm | Statistics New Zealand
This paper provides technical users with information about our approach to measuring COVID-19 in the forthcoming release of Gross domestic product: December 2020 quarter (scheduled for 18 March 2021). The paper follows earlier method papers that describe ... More >>
Increased Supply Pressures Reported For Home Building Projects In Auckland
Friday, 5 March 2021, 10:50 am | Statistics New Zealand
Respondents were asked about their perceptions of COVID-19’s impact on building projects in the December 2020 quarter, Stats NZ said today. About 6 out of 10 respondents from home building projects in Auckland reported an impact on the availability of ... More >>
Making Sure Māori Count
Thursday, 4 March 2021, 10:55 am | Statistics New Zealand
A small Waikato town is pulling together to help improve how Māori are counted in the next census, Stats NZ said today. In Raahui Pookeka, members of a local marae are driving an initiative to improve engagement in the New Zealand census. The initiative, ... More >>
Making The Census Test Count
Thursday, 4 March 2021, 10:48 am | Statistics New Zealand
Hamilton residents are being asked to help make sure updated census methodology works by participating in the census test, Stats NZ said today. The test is being run to see how changes made to the collection model used in the New Zealand Census ... More >>
Effects Of COVID-19 On Trade: At 24 February 2021 (provisional)
Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 12:03 pm | Statistics New Zealand
Effects of COVID-19 on trade is a weekly update on New Zealand’s daily goods trade with the world. Comparing the values with previous years shows the potential impacts of COVID-19. The data is provisional and should be regarded as an early, indicative ... More >>
Consents For Medium-sized Houses Increase Rapidly In The Last Decade
Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 10:50 am | Statistics New Zealand
Medium-sized stand-alone houses, with a floor area between 100 and 200 square metres, became more common in the last decade, Stats NZ said today. “More than 11,000 medium-sized stand-alone houses were consented in 2020, doubling what we saw in 2010 during the ... More >>
Employment Indicators: January 2021
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 10:49 am | Statistics New Zealand
Employment indicators provide an early indication of changes in the labour market. Key facts Changes in the seasonally adjusted filled jobs for January 2021 (compared with December 2020) were: all industries – down 0.0 percent (428 jobs) ... More >>
Crude Oil Import Volumes More Than Double
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 10:45 am | Statistics New Zealand
Crude oil import volumes more than doubled in the December 2020 quarter, bouncing back from recent lows, Stats NZ said today. Import volumes for primary fuels and lubricants, which primarily covers crude oil, rose 129.4 percent on the previous ... More >>
Sea And Air Transport Values Rising
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 10:43 am | Statistics New Zealand
Spending on international sea and air transportation services has risen steadily from a low level in the June 2020 quarter, pushing up total transportation services imports by $100 million in the December 2020 quarter, Stats NZ said today. Transportation ... More >>
Dairy And Meat Drive Large Fall In Exports
Friday, 26 February 2021, 10:49 am | Statistics New Zealand
The value of total goods exports fell 10 percent in January 2021 from January 2020, to $4.2 billion, led by falls in dairy and meat, Stats NZ said today. “The fall in exports of $486 million was the largest year-on-year fall in exports since March ... More >>
Volume Of Wine On The Rise
Thursday, 25 February 2021, 10:58 am | Statistics New Zealand
The total volume of wine available for consumption in New Zealand rose in 2020, Stats NZ said today. “The volume of wine available to the New Zealand market was up 4.3 percent in 2020, in contrast to falls in each of the previous two years,” ... More >>
Effects Of COVID-19 On Trade: At 17 February 2021 (provisional)
Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 11:59 am | Statistics New Zealand
Effects of COVID-19 on trade is a weekly update on New Zealand’s daily goods trade with the world. Comparing the values with previous years shows the potential impacts of COVID-19. The data is provisional and should be regarded as an early, indicative ... More >>
Child Poverty Statistics For Households With Disabled People Released For The First Time
Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 10:57 am | Statistics New Zealand
The statistics show that disabled children and children in households where someone is disabled are more likely to be in poverty according to the nine child poverty measures, Stats NZ said today. New data from the household economic survey reports ... More >>
Latest Release Of Child Poverty Statistics
Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 10:54 am | Statistics New Zealand
All measures of child poverty were trending downwards, prior to the COVID-19 lockdown, across the two years since year ended June 2018, Stats NZ said today. The COVID-19 lockdown in late March 2020 affected Stats NZ’s ability to collect data from households ... More >>
New Zealand’s Birth Rate Lowest On Record, Deaths Drop In 2020
Thursday, 18 February 2021, 10:50 am | Statistics New Zealand
New Zealand’s total fertility rate in 2020 was down to 1.61 births per woman, its lowest recorded level, and well below the population replacement rate of 2.1, Stats NZ said today. This means that based on birth rates in 2020, New Zealand women ... More >>
Effects Of COVID-19 On Trade: At 10 February 2021
Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 12:00 pm | Statistics New Zealand
Effects of COVID-19 on trade is a weekly update on New Zealand’s daily goods trade with the world. Comparing the values with previous years shows the potential impacts of COVID-19. The data is provisional and should be regarded as an early, indicative ... More >>
Productivity Lifts Before COVID-19 Hits
Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 10:51 am | Statistics New Zealand
Labour productivity rose 0.6 percent in the year ended March 2020, Stats NZ said today. “The latest figures showed that for every 100 goods and services a worker could produce per hour in 1996, they now produce 137,” national accounts senior ... More >>
Disabled People Still Faring Worse Than Non-disabled People
Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 10:49 am | Statistics New Zealand
Disabled people continue to fare worse than non-disabled people across many aspects of their lives, with increasing numbers experiencing loneliness and discrimination, Stats NZ said today. The Washington Group short set (WGSS) of questions on activity ... More >>
