National saving (M6)

The data: coverage, periodicity and timeliness

Coverage characteristics

The national accounts statistics provide production, income and outlay, and capital accounts for the nation and the six sectors of the economy:

• producer enterprises
• financial intermediaries
• government
• non-profit institutions serving households
• households
• rest of the world.

Important economic indicators can be derived from the sector accounts such as saving.

Periodicity

Annual (for the year ended March).

Timeliness

We release the annual national accounts in November.

Access by the public

Statistics release calendar

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Integrity

Dissemination of terms and conditions under which official statistics are produced, including confidentiality of individual responses

We have reproduced the data with the permission of Statistics New Zealand.

Provision of information about revisions and advance notice of major changes in methodology

We generally publish revisions when we update and release a table. New or revised data is in bold font.

Quality

Dissemination of documentation on methodology and sources used in preparing statistics

We sourced data from Statistics New Zealand.

National accounts (income and expenditure)

Gross domestic product (production based)

The production approach to GDP measures the total value of goods and services produced in New Zealand, after deducting the cost of goods and services used in the production process. This is also known as the value-added approach.

Net saving

Corporations

Net saving is equal to the gross income receivable by corporations less income payable and consumption of fixed capital. Income receivable by corporations includes gross operating surplus, property income and current transfers.

General government

Net saving is the surplus of general government gross income over current use of income. Current use of income includes final consumption expenditure and current transfers.

Households

Net saving is equal to gross household disposable income less household final consumption expenditure and consumption of fixed capital. Household saving is estimated as the balancing item in the household income account.

Institutional sector

The five broad economic sectors that make up the total economy, as classified under New Zealand Standard Institutional Sector Classification (NZISC):

• producer enterprises (sector 1)
• financial intermediaries (sector 2)
• general government (sector 3)
• private non-profit organisations serving households (sector 4)
• the household sector (sector 5).

Symbols and conventions for summary table

General notes

• Individual figures may not sum to the totals due to rounding
• Percentage changes are calculated on unrounded numbers
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