Price indexes
Price indexes measure the change in price for a fixed ‘basket’ of goods and services between two time periods. This change is often called inflation.
Data from the food price index (FPI), the rental price indexes (RPI) and additional series are now available in the monthly release called selected price indexes (SPI) .
Introducing a new price index release has more information about what the SPI is and the data available in the release.
We collect prices to produce price indexes for several economic sectors.
Business price indexes include the producer's price index (PPI), capital goods price index (CGPI), and farm expenses price index (FEPI).
Consumers price index (CPI) measures the changing price of the goods and services New Zealand households buy. It provides a measure of inflation.
Food price index (FPI) measures the changes in prices that households pay for food and food services. We measure the price change by tracking the prices of individual food items that make up a representative food basket.
Household living-costs price indexes provide information on the rate of price change for goods and services purchased by select household groups, giving a measure of inflation for sub-sections of the population.
Labour market statistics provide a picture of the New Zealand labour market. They include the labour cost index, which measures changes in wages and salaries.
Overseas trade indexes (prices and volumes) measure changes in the levels of prices and volumes of merchandise imports and exports between New Zealand and the rest of the world.
Rental prices indexes measure the changes in prices that households pay for housing rentals.
Selected price indexes provides monthly price changes for a selection of goods and services that New Zealand households purchase.
Latest information releases about price indexes
Labour market statistics: March 2025 quarter
Labour market statistics provide a picture of the New Zealand labour market, including unemployment and employment rates, demand for labour, and changes in wages and salaries.
Research and development survey: 2024
Research and development (R&D) statistics report on research and development activity, including expenditure and related employment across the business, government, and higher education sectors in New Zealand.
Consumers price index: March 2025 quarter
The consumers price index (CPI) measures the rate of price change of goods and services purchased by New Zealand households.
Selected price indexes: March 2025
Selected price indexes (SPI) provide monthly price changes for a selection of goods and services that New Zealand households purchase.
Latest publications about price indexes
Electricity and gas to be included in the monthly selected price indexes
Stats NZ will begin publishing indexes for electricity and gas as part of the monthly selected price indexes (SPI).
Unemployment rate remains at 5.1 percent in the March 2025 quarter
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.1 percent in the March 2025 quarter, unchanged from last quarter.
Labour market statistics: March 2025 quarter
Labour market statistics provide a picture of the New Zealand labour market, including unemployment and employment rates, demand for labour, and changes in wages and salaries.
Consumers price index review: 2024
Outlines changes made to the basket of goods and services following a review of the consumers price index (CPI). These changes were introduced in Consumers price index: March 2025 quarter.
CSV files for download
CSV files for download has data from Infoshare and Stats NZ information releases.
Tools with data about price indexes
Infoshare
Build tables from our biggest range of datasets, including long-term time series. View on screen or download Excel or CSV files.
Consumers price index visualisation
View and explore changes in the CPI basket of goods and services. Download data in CSV format.
NZ social indicators
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DataInfo+
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Ariā
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Experimental initiatives
Overseas trade price indexes through a multilateral method
Overseas trade price indexes through a multilateral method now forms part of the ongoing quarterly publication of international trade.
Living-costs explorer
Try our new data visualisation tool, which lets you take a closer look at the richness of data within the household living-costs price indexes.
API initiative
This initiative closed on 21 November 2018. The APIs are no longer available.
Experimental non-wage labour cost indicators
View experimental indexes for non-wage labour costs.
Information about data
Get technical information such as classifications used, survey design, and a glossary of statistical terms.
Metadata in DataInfo+
DataInfo+ has metadata about our statistical collections and classifications, and questionnaires and forms.
DataInfo+ concepts gives definitions of terms used by Stats NZ.
Business price indexes data collection – DataInfo+ gives the general methodology used to produce business price indexes.
Consumers price index – DataInfo+ provides the general methodology used to produce the CPI, and related metadata.
Food price index – DataInfo+ provides the general methodology used to produce the food price index, and related metadata.
Household living-costs price indexes – DataInfo+ provides the general methodology used to produce the food price index, and related metadata.
Labour cost index – DataInfo+ for general methodology used to produce labour cost index statistics.
Overseas trade indexes (prices and volumes) – DataInfo+ gives the general methodology used to produce these statistics, and related metadata.
Price indexes concepts – Datainfo+ gives definitions of terms used by Stats NZ.
Methods, sources, and user guides
Consumers price index review: 2017 (revised) outlines the changes we made as a result of a review of the CPI.
Food price index review: 2017 (revised) outlines the changes we made as a result of a review of the FPI.
Household living-costs price indexes review: 2017 outlines changes in the relative importance of expenditure weights in each HLPI group after the CPI review in 2017.
Household living-costs price indexes: Background provides information about a new set of indicators that measure the inflation experience of groups of households.
New methodology for rental prices in the CPI provides information about the changes to the way we measure rent in the CPI.
Producers price index: Concepts, sources, and methods aims to provide customers with a greater understanding of how we compile the producers price index (PPI).
Producers price index weights give the weighted PPI industry and commodity weights (updated annually).
