Source: Statistics New Zealand
Dwelling and household estimates: December 2024 quarter – 14 January 2025 – National dwelling and household estimates are used for many purposes including planning, policy formation, business decisions, and as ‘bottom lines’ in the calculation of market coverage rates.
Key facts
At 31 December 2024, the estimated number of:
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Source: Statistics New Zealand
Employment indicators: November 2024 – 13 January 2025 – Employment indicators provide an early indication of changes in the labour market.
Key facts
Changes in the seasonally adjusted filled jobs for the November 2024 month (compared with the October 2024 month) were:
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Source: Statistics New Zealand
Home consents up 4.8 percent in the month of November – 13 January 2025 – There were 3,100 new homes consented in New Zealand in November 2024, up 4.8 percent compared with November 2023, according to figures released by Stats NZ today.
Of these, there were 1,402 stand-alone houses consented, down 4.1 percent compared with November 2023, and 1,698 multi-unit homes consented, up 14 percent over the same period.
“While the number of homes consented each month has fluctuated, the trend has remained relatively steady for the last year,” economic indicators spokesperson Michael Heslop said.
Source: Statistics New Zealand
Update on December selected prices indexes (SPI) release 2024 – exclusion of December 2024 rental data – 10 January 2025 – The December 2024 SPI release, scheduled for publishing next week (16 January 2025), will not include actual rentals for housing data for December 2024.
The administrative dataset for this information is provided by the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment. MBIE has recently completed upgrades to their tenancy bond lodgment system and Stats NZ requires additional time to integrate this data for the rental price indexes.
This dataset also contributes to the consumers price index (CPI). For the December 2024 quarter CPI, which will be released on 22 January 2025, we will produce a quarterly movement for rental prices using the two months of data already published for October and November 2024.
Stats NZ is confident in this approach.
We are working to integrate this dataset in time for the January 2025 SPI release in February 2025.
Source: Statistics New Zealand
Household labour force survey estimated working-age population: December 2024 quarter – information release – 9 January 2025 – The household labour force survey estimated working-age population table shows the population benchmarks used to produce household labour force survey estimates for the upcoming labour market statistics release.
Business employment data: September 2024 quarter – data revision – 23 December 2024 – We have updated ‘filled jobs (workplace location based)’ data at the territorial authority and regional levels for the quarters ending March 2021 to September 2024.
Some jobs were incorrectly allocated to locations, which made it appear as though jobs in certain territorial authorities and regions had been ‘lost’, when this was not the case.
National level data for ‘filled jobs’ by workplace location is not affected by this issue as the information is fully sourced from data in the tax system. We are confident that it is robust and of high quality.
For a sub-national breakdown of job numbers and changes, we recommend using the data for ‘filled jobs’ (produced by employee location at the territorial authority and regional level) as this is fully sourced from tax system data and is of higher quality. This differs from the ‘filled jobs (workplace location based)’ data, where the issue was found and corrected.
Source: Statistics New Zealand
Sweet season for kiwifruit exports – 20 December 2024 – Kiwifruit exports were valued at $3.5 billion for the 2024 season, according to data released by Stats NZ today.
The value of kiwifruit exports in the 2024 season has increased by $1 billion (44 percent), compared with 2023. The kiwifruit season is typically from March to November.
Gold kiwifruit tend to have a higher unit price than green.
“While the prices for kiwifruit remained relatively stable, the volume of kiwifruit produced this season has driven the overall increase in exports,” international accounts spokesperson Viki Ward said.
“This is a great recovery for the industry after last year’s weather events, and a return to historic highs.”
The update to the June 2024 quarter growth rate reflects the incorporation of annual data, a process completed by Stats NZ each October. In this instance, while the June quarter growth rate has been revised downward, the overall level of economic activity has been revised upward over a longer period.
“The structure of the New Zealand economy can change quickly, which is why we update with new data each year,” macroeconomic growth spokesperson Jason Attewell said.
“The data incorporated this year shows stronger growth over the last year, followed by two significant falls in the latest quarters.
“We balance the use of timely data for quarterly GDP estimates with more detailed information to annually update the relevant importance of industries. This approach is in line with international best practice.”
Source: Statistics New Zealand
Quarterly current account deficit $6.2 billion – 18 December 2024 – New Zealand’s seasonally adjusted current account deficit narrowed by $0.9 billion to $6.2 billion in the September 2024 quarter, according to figures released by Stats NZ today.
Fall in goods imports drives the narrowing deficit
In the September 2024 quarter, the seasonally adjusted goods deficit narrowed by $0.7 billion to $1.9 billion, driven by a $0.8 billion fall in goods imports.
“In the September 2024 quarter, New Zealand imported fewer cars than last quarter. Also contributing to the fall was transport equipment imports with no defence aircraft imported, which were recorded in the June 2024 quarter,” international accounts spokesperson Viki Ward said.
“There was a higher volume of petrol imports in this quarter.”
Goods exports decreased by $0.1 billion, driven by meat and casein.
Source: Statistics New Zealand
Serious injury outcome indicators: 2000–2023 – 17 December 2024 – Serious injury outcome indicators present the annual number and rate of serious injury outcomes in New Zealand, through a set of indicators for fatal and non-fatal injuries.
Note: We are now publishing the Work-related injury targets at a glance: 2008–2023 Excel file on this page to present the three indicators used for monitoring the Government’s targets to reduce work-related injuries together.