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Effects Of COVID-19 On Trade: 1 February–16 September 2020 (provisional)
Wednesday, 23 September 2020, 12:19 pm | Statistics New Zealand
Effects of COVID-19 on trade is a weekly update on New Zealand’s daily goods trade with the world from 1 February 2020. Comparing the values with previous years shows the potential impacts of COVID-19. The data is provisional and should be regarded ... More >>
New Zealand’s Population Nears 5.1 Million
Wednesday, 23 September 2020, 11:06 am | Statistics New Zealand
New Zealand’s estimated resident population reached 5,084,300 at 30 June 2020, Stats NZ said today. These are the first population estimates to fully incorporate the 2018 Census and 2018 Post-enumeration survey (PES) results. "One of the ... More >>
Northern regions lead population growth
Wednesday, 23 September 2020, 10:56 am | Statistics New Zealand
New Zealand’s four northernmost regions accounted for almost 60 percent of the country’s population growth between 2013 and 2019, Stats NZ said today. More >>
COVID-19 Sees Record 12.2 Percent Fall In New Zealand’s Economy
Thursday, 17 September 2020, 11:28 am | Statistics New Zealand
Gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 12.2 percent in the June 2020 quarter, the largest quarterly fall recorded since the current series began in 1987, as the COVID-19 restrictions in place through the quarter impacted economic activity, Stats NZ said ... More >>
Employment Indicators: Paid Jobs Week Ended 16 August 2020
Thursday, 17 September 2020, 10:51 am | Statistics New Zealand
Key facts This series counts the number of unique employer-employee relationships present in payday filing 6, 13, and 27 days after the end of the reference week. These counts are published as they are, and no work has been done to adjust for seasonality ... More >>
Wellbeing Outcomes Worse For Sole Parents
Monday, 14 September 2020, 12:03 pm | Statistics New Zealand
Sole parents of dependent children report lower levels of wellbeing across a range of measures, Stats NZ said today. Data from a new supplement, added to the June 2020 quarter of the household labour force survey, shows that 15 percent of New Zealanders ... More >>
International Migration: July 2020 – Infoshare Tables
Monday, 14 September 2020, 10:52 am | Statistics New Zealand
International migration statistics give the latest outcomes-based measure of migration, which includes estimates of migrants entering or leaving New Zealand. Access data in Infoshare Use Infoshare to access time-series data for international travel and ... More >>
2020 Revisions To Balance Of Payments And National Accounts – Methods Paper
Friday, 11 September 2020, 12:30 pm | Statistics New Zealand
This page explains the revisions to the data sources and methods that will be included in the balance of payments and national accounts for 2020. We make revisions annually, in line with international best practice, to ensure the statistics continue to reflect ... More >>
Impacts Of COVID-19 On The 2020 CPI Re-weight
Friday, 11 September 2020, 10:50 am | Statistics New Zealand
On 23 October, we will be releasing the updated weights for the consumers price index (CPI) as part of the three-yearly review of the CPI weights and basket. The updated weights will be based on the 2018/19 Household Economic Survey. These weights ... More >>
Tomato Shortage Follows Lockdown
Friday, 11 September 2020, 10:47 am | Statistics New Zealand
Tomato prices rose 38 percent in August 2020 to a weighted average price of $13.65 per kilo, an all-time high, Stats NZ said today. A shortage of tomatoes due to COVID-19 uncertainty caused higher than normal prices. “About 40–50 percent of tomatoes ... More >>
Hospitality Struggles Under Higher COVID-19 Alert Level Restrictions
Thursday, 10 September 2020, 11:10 am | Statistics New Zealand
Card spending on hospitality fell in August 2020, Stats NZ said today. “Spending on both eating out and accommodation away from home fell in August due to 19 days of COVID-19 alert level 3 restrictions in Auckland and alert level 2 restrictions ... More >>
COVID-19 Alert Levels Up, Card Spending Down
Thursday, 10 September 2020, 10:56 am | Statistics New Zealand
Retail card spending fell $530 million in August 2020 compared with July as Auckland entered COVID-19 alert level 3, Stats NZ said today. “The fall in retail spending in August was not surprising, as higher alert level restrictions were set to slow ... More >>
Employment Indicators: Paid Jobs Week Ended 9 August 2020
Thursday, 10 September 2020, 10:54 am | Statistics New Zealand
Key facts This series counts the number of unique employer-employee relationships present in payday filing 6, 13, and 27 days after the end of the reference week. These counts are published as they are, and no work has been done to adjust for seasonality ... More >>
Effects Of COVID-19 On Trade: 1 February–2 September 2020 (provisional)
Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 12:01 pm | Statistics New Zealand
Effects of COVID-19 on trade is a weekly update on New Zealand’s daily goods trade with the world from 1 February 2020. Comparing the values with previous years shows the potential impacts of COVID-19. The data is provisional and should be regarded ... More >>
Wholesale Trade Sales Knocked Back By COVID-19 Lockdown
Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 10:44 am | Statistics New Zealand
Wholesale trade sales fell $2.7 billion (10 percent) in June 2020 quarter, after most businesses shut temporarily during the COVID-19 lockdown in April, Stats NZ said today. “This is the largest decrease in wholesale trade sales since the series ... More >>
One In 14 Employed People Report High Risk Of Losing Jobs
Tuesday, 8 September 2020, 10:54 am | Statistics New Zealand
About one in 14 workers say they expect to lose their job or business by mid-2021, Stats NZ said today. A survey of employed people in the June 2020 quarter showed 7 percent felt there was a high or almost certain chance of losing their job or business ... More >>
Four In 10 Employed New Zealanders Work From Home During Lockdown
Monday, 7 September 2020, 10:49 am | Statistics New Zealand
More than 40 percent of employed people did at least some of their work from home during the lockdown at COVID-19 alert levels 4 and 3 in April and early May, Stats NZ said today. At alert level 4 in April 2020, with all non-essential businesses ... More >>
New Zealand Now: Labour Market And Tourism Key Facts
Friday, 4 September 2020, 12:13 pm | Statistics New Zealand
These papers draw together information from different Stats NZ releases to give users some key facts about the labour market at June 2020 and tourism at June 2020 . We plan to release a series of these topic-based papers in the lead-up to the general ... More >>
COVID-19 Slows Building Activity
Friday, 4 September 2020, 10:48 am | Statistics New Zealand
The volume of building activity decreased a provisional 22 percent in the June 2020 quarter, after the COVID-19 alert level 4 lockdown stopped almost all residential and non-residential building during April, Stats NZ said today. “Building activity ... More >>
Employment Indicators: Paid Jobs Week Ended 2 August 2020
Thursday, 3 September 2020, 10:58 am | Statistics New Zealand
This series counts the number of unique employer-employee relationships present in payday filing 6, 13, and 27 days after the end of the reference week. These counts are published as they are, and no work has been done to adjust for seasonality or ... More >>
