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Notes for Economic Indicators

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Domestic trade (table A1)

Source: Statistics New Zealand

Retail turnover

Wholesale turnover

Manufacturing turnover

see Retail Trade Survey, (Table 4).
see Wholesale Trade Survey, (Table 1).
see Economic Survey of Manufacturing
total, (Table 1).
meat and dairy product manufacturing (Table 2);

Investment (table A2)

Source: Statistics New Zealand

Building permit issues	see Building Consents Issued Dwellings (Table 1). Other buildings
Manufacturing additions to fixed assets Retail stocks	see Economic Survey of Manufacturing, (Table 1). see Retail Trade Survey, (Table 15).
Wholesale stocks	see Wholesale Trade survey, (Table 3).
Surveyed manufacturing stocks	see Economic Survey of Manufacturing, Table 1 (closing stocks of materials plus finished goods).

Incomes and prices (table A3)

Source: Statistics New Zealand, Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Labour costs Average hourly earnings	see Labour Cost Index (salary and wages) see Quarterly Employment survey, (Table 1).
Consumers price index CPI ex-credit services	see Consumers Price Index, (Table 1). see Consumers Price Index, (Table 3.1).
Producers price index	see Producers Price Index. Inputs (Table 2). Outputs (Table 1.)
Tradable, non-tradable inflation	see Consumers Price Index, (Table 3.1).Source – see series descriptions
Weighted median inflation, Trimmed mean	Source – SNZ from 2001: INFOS CPIQ.SE9NS4110, CPIQ.SE9NS4160, CPIQ.SE9NS4005, CPIQ.SE9NS4055. Previous figures source is RBNZ – see series descriptions
GDP deflator	See Gross Domestic Product (Table 5.1)
CPI petrol price index	CPI petrol class, INFOS CPIQ.SE907202
Exponentially smoothed; factor model; CPI less housing non-tradable items; Non-tradable inflation less housing items, CPI less Government charges, food, petrol; CPI ex-energy and fuel	Reserve Bank derived series

Labour market and balance of payments (table A4)

Sources: Statistics New Zealand,

Ministry of Social Development

Registered unemployment	http://www.msd.govt.nz/
Official unemployed	see Household Labour Force survey, (Table 3).
Filled jobs total	see Quarterly Employment survey, (Table 7).
Terms of trade	see Overseas Trade Indexes, (Table 1.01).
Imports of goods	see Balance of Payments, Table 2 (taking annual totals).
Exports of goods	see Balance of Payments, Table 2 (taking annual totals).
Current account balance	see Balance of Payments, (Table 11).
Current account balance as % GDP	see Balance of Payments, (Table 11).

Gross domestic product (table A5)

Source: Statistics New Zealand

Expenditure-based nominal	see Gross Domestic Product, (Table 4.2).
Expenditure-based real	see Gross Domestic Product, (Table 3.4).
Production-based nominal	RBNZ estimate.
Production based real	see Gross Domestic Product, (Table 2.1).