Data tables for the Monetary Policy Challenge
A summary of recent outturns of the key variables that Monetary Policy Challenge participants will be forecasting. These include some of the key economic indicators that participants may wish to refer to when formulating forecasts.
| Last updated: 20 May 2013 | |||||
| Real GDP | |||||
| Quarterly %, seasonally adjusted | |||||
| Quarter | Dec. 11 | Mar. 12 | Jun. 12 | Sep. 12 | Dec. 12 |
| EXPENDITURE GDP | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.4 |
| + Private consumption | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| + Investment, total (private & govt.) | 1.0 | 3.3 | 3.4 | -2.1 | 2.2 |
| ( * private residential) | 4.3 | 1.3 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 2.0 |
| + Government consumption | 0.4 | -1.2 | 1.1 | 0.1 | -0.7 |
| + Exports | 4.1 | -2.4 | -1.2 | 4.2 | 0.9 |
| - Imports | -2.4 | 4.2 | -3.7 | 2.1 | -2.0 |
| Please note that the two investment components provided above do not sum to total investment. | |||||
| Change in inventories is not meaningful as a percentage change, and is therefore excluded. | |||||
Source: Statistics New Zealand |
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| Annual average %, not seasonally adjusted | |||||
| Quarter | Dec. 11 | Mar. 12 | Jun. 12 | Sep. 12 | Dec. 12 |
| EXPENDITURE GDP | 1.3 | 2.2 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 3.0 |
| + Private consumption | 2.0 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| + Investment, total (private & govt.) | 3.2 | 2.3 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 6.6 |
| ( * private residential) | -11.2 | -10.7 | -2.7 | 5.7 | 10.9 |
| + Government consumption | 2.0 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 |
| + Exports | 2.7 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 2.1 |
| - Imports | 6.6 | 6.1 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 1.4 |
| Please note that the two investment components provided above do not sum to total investment. | |||||
| Change in inventories is not meaningful as a percentage change, and is therefore excluded. | |||||
Source: Statistics New Zealand |
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