Selected price indexes (SPI) provide monthly price changes for a selection of goods and services that New Zealand households purchase.
14 February 2024: If you experience difficulties accessing Infoshare data for selected price indexes, you can access the data in ‘Selected price indexes: January 2024 – CSV’ under Download data below.
14 February 2024: This release contains an update to the monthly releases for October, November, and December 2023 due to an error. The values in the following series in the CSV file and Infoshare are affected:
- Food Price Index for New Zealand, percentage change (CPIM.SE901AC)
The Excel tables, graphs, and written content in the October, November, and December 2023 monthly releases are unaffected by the update.
Key facts
The following table sets out the key percentage changes in monthly and annual prices. We compare January 2024 with December 2023 for the monthly percentage change, and January 2024 with January 2023 for the annual percentage change.
Group, subgroup, class, item, or selected section | January 2024 | January 2024 |
Food group | 0.9 | 4.0 |
Fruit and vegetables | 0.3 | -1.2 |
Meat, poultry, and fish | 1.0 | 1.4 |
Grocery food | 1.7 | 5.2 |
Non-alcoholic beverages | 1.0 | 4.4 |
Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food | 0.3 | 6.7 |
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco group | 3.1 | 7.2 |
Alcoholic beverages | 0.6 | 4.8 |
Cigarettes and tobacco | 6.4 | 10.3 |
Housing and household utilities group | ||
Stock measure of rental property | 0.3 | 4.5 |
Flow measure of rental property | 2.5 | 6.8 |
Transport group | ||
Petrol | -1.5 | 9.9 |
Diesel | -2.2 | -9.0 |
Domestic air transport | -12.2 | -5.2 |
International air transport | -21.6 | -31.5 |
Recreation and culture group | ||
Domestic accommodation | 3.3 | 8.5 |
Overseas accommodation | 5.0 | 8.9 |
| Month | Annual percentage change |
| Jan-20 | 3.5 |
| Feb-20 | 3.1 |
| Mar-20 | 3.3 |
| Apr-20 | 4.4 |
| May-20 | 2.9 |
| Jun-20 | 4.1 |
| Jul-20 | 4.2 |
| Aug-20 | 4.2 |
| Sep-20 | 3.1 |
| Oct-20 | 2.7 |
| Nov-20 | 2.6 |
| Dec-20 | 2.9 |
| Jan-21 | 2.1 |
| Feb-21 | 1.2 |
| Mar-21 | 0.5 |
| Apr-21 | 0.7 |
| May-21 | 1.8 |
| Jun-21 | 2.8 |
| Jul-21 | 2.8 |
| Aug-21 | 2.4 |
| Sep-21 | 4 |
| Oct-21 | 3.7 |
| Nov-21 | 4 |
| Dec-21 | 4.5 |
| Jan-22 | 5.9 |
| Feb-22 | 6.8 |
| Mar-22 | 7.6 |
| Apr-22 | 6.4 |
| May-22 | 6.8 |
| Jun-22 | 6.6 |
| Jul-22 | 7.4 |
| Aug-22 | 8.3 |
| Sep-22 | 8.3 |
| Oct-22 | 10.1 |
| Nov-22 | 10.7 |
| Dec-22 | 11.3 |
| Jan-23 | 10.3 |
| Feb-23 | 12 |
| Mar-23 | 12.1 |
| Apr-23 | 12.5 |
| May-23 | 12.1 |
| Jun-23 | 12.5 |
| Jul-23 | 9.6 |
| Aug-23 | 8.9 |
| Sep-23 | 8 |
| Oct-23 | 6.3 |
| Nov-23 | 6 |
| Dec-23 | 4.8 |
| Jan-24 | 4 |
More data
Use Infoshare to access timeseries data. For this release, select the following categories:
Subject category: Economic indicators
Group: Consumers price index – CPI
Definitions and metadata
Selected price indexes – DataInfo+ gives general methodology used to produce the selected price indexes and related metadata.
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Next release
Selected price indexes: February 2024 will be released on 13 March 2024.
