Update of weighting parameters for Tara-ā-Whare - Household Expectations Survey based on the 2023 Census
23 May 2025
The survey data is weighted using RIM weighting (Random Iterative Method) on age, gender, region and ethnicity from Stats NZ Census population counts. From the June 2025 quarter onwards, we have updated the weighting parameters from the 2018 Census to the 2023 Census to ensure the data remains representative of the New Zealand population. There have been no other changes to our methodology.
New time series for Housing and employment
20 May 2024
Questions on housing investment behaviour have been removed from the H2 survey, due to poor quality data, which has prevented publishing any response data since the questions were first introduced in 2022;
New table
19 May 2022
Our new H2 table shows Housing and employment statistics for New Zealand households. We have published the following series on 19th May with Q1 and Q2 2022 data: Percentage chance of not making a mortgage payment 3 months ahead Percentage chance of not making a rent payment 3 months ahead Expected change in earnings 12 months ahead Expected percentage change in earnings 12 months ahead Percentage chance of losing job in next 12 months Percentage chance of finding a new job in the next 3 months (if current job lost) In the future, we plan to add data for the following series to the H2 web table: Housing investment behaviour The background notes and series descriptions on the table provide more information about the data and the survey methodology.