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Cost of Living
Every Three Years, Except Once: The Four-Year Gap in NZ's Spending Data
New Zealand's official picture of how households spend their money is taken once every three years. Between 2019 and 2023 it stretched to four, and the gap landed squarely on the years your grocery bill changed shape.
Cost of Living
Six Surveys, Sixteen Years, One Number: 100.0 Every Single Time
Stats NZ's household expenditure series has recorded exactly 100.0 in every survey round since 2007. Here's why a number that never moves is still telling you something important about how we measure the cost of living.