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Business Employment Data: December 2025 Quarter
Thursday, 12 March 2026, 11:46 am | Stats NZ
Total actual filled jobs in the December 2025 quarter were 2.27 million. More >>
Business Financial Data: December 2025 Quarter
Thursday, 12 March 2026, 11:40 am | Stats NZ
Sales were $212 billion, up $12 billion (5.9 percent) and purchases were $147 billion, up $7.6 billion (5.4 percent). More >>
Local Authority Statistics: December 2025 Quarter
Friday, 6 March 2026, 10:55 am | Stats NZ
Visit the website to read more about the performance of core non-trading activities of New Zealand's territorial and regional councils. More >>
First Reading Of Data And Statistics (Census) Amendment Bill
Thursday, 5 March 2026, 5:53 pm | Stats NZ
The Census Bill supports Stats NZ’s shift to an annual census and the publishing of critical population and housing statistics every year from 2030. More >>
Value Of Building Work Put In Place: December 2025 Quarter – Information Release
Thursday, 5 March 2026, 10:52 am | Stats NZ
Total building value was $7.7 billion, down 3.6 percent from the December 2024 quarter. More >>
Environmental-Economic Accounts: Data To 2024 – Information Release
Thursday, 5 March 2026, 10:51 am | Stats NZ
Central and local government expenditure on environmental protection (on a final consumption basis) increased 9.8 percent ($277 million) to total $3.1 billion. More >>
International Trade: December 2025 Quarter
Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 10:52 am | Stats NZ
The total two-way trade for the December 2025 quarter was $61.2 billion. More >>
New Home Consents Rise In January – Building Consents Issued: January 2026
Tuesday, 3 March 2026, 10:49 am | Stats NZ
The number of stand-alone houses consented was 16,748, up 5.0 percent over the year. More >>
Tourism Satellite Account: Year Ended March 2025
Tuesday, 3 March 2026, 10:47 am | Stats NZ
Total tourism employment increased 2.8 percent (8,874 people) to 327,888 people. More >>
Employment Indicators: January 2026
Monday, 2 March 2026, 10:58 am | Stats NZ
Changes in the seasonally adjusted filled jobs for the January 2026 month (compared with the December 2025 month) were all industries – up 0.2 percent (4,217 jobs) to 2.35 million filled jobs. More >>
Increasing Household Income Offset By Higher Housing Costs In Year To June 2025
Thursday, 26 February 2026, 11:22 am | Stats NZ
Average weekly household disposable income increased from $1,977.70 to $2,077.70 in the 12 months to June 2025, up 5.1 percent from the previous year. More >>
No Annual Change In Child Poverty Rates For Year Ended June 2025
Thursday, 26 February 2026, 11:18 am | Stats NZ
The Child Poverty Reduction Act 2018 (the Act) sets out a multi-level, multi-measure approach, consisting of four primary and six supplementary measures. More >>
Statistical Area 2 And 3 Population Projections: 2023(Base)–2053 – (Second Instalment)
Tuesday, 24 February 2026, 10:50 am | Stats NZ
This is the second instalment of the statistical area 2 (SA2) and statistical area 3 (SA3) population projections. More >>
Holiday Spending Contributes To 0.9 Percent Increase In Retail Sales
Monday, 23 February 2026, 11:26 am | Stats NZ
Spending on discretionary items helped drive an overall increase in retail activity, economic indicators spokespersons Michelle Feyen said. More >>
Electrical And Mechanical Machinery Lead Imports For Year Ended January 2026
Friday, 20 February 2026, 10:48 am | Stats NZ
Mechanical machinery and equipment include things such as jet engines, turbines, and computers. Electrical machinery and equipment include things such as phones, transformers, and insulations materials. More >>
Business Price Indexes: December 2025 Quarter
Wednesday, 18 February 2026, 10:50 am | Stats NZ
Key facts include the output PPI rise of 0.1 percent and the input PPI fall of 0.5 percent. More >>
Births To Under-25s Decline To Record Low Proportion
Tuesday, 17 February 2026, 12:13 pm | Stats NZ
Fourteen percent of births in 2025 were to mothers aged under 25 years (‘younger mothers’). This is down from 28 percent in 1995, and 46 percent in 1965. More >>
Annual Food Prices Increase 4.6 Percent
Tuesday, 17 February 2026, 12:07 pm | Stats NZ
Higher prices for the grocery food group, up 4.0 percent, contributed the most to the annual increase in food prices. More >>
National Population Estimates: At 31 December 2025
Monday, 16 February 2026, 11:43 am | Stats NZ
At 31 December 2025, the estimated resident population of New Zealand was 5,342,000. More >>
Visitor Arrivals Pass 3.5 Million
Friday, 13 February 2026, 11:18 am | Stats NZ
“The December 2025 year was the first annual period to exceed 3.5 million overseas visitor arrivals since the March 2020 year,” international travel spokesperson Bryan Downes said. More >>
