Selected price indexes (SPI) provide monthly price changes for a selection of goods and services that New Zealand households purchase.
Key facts
The following table sets out the key percentage changes in monthly and annual prices. We compare November 2025 with October 2025 for the monthly percentage change, and November 2025 with November 2024 for the annual percentage change.
Group, subgroup, class, item, or selected section | Monthly percentage change | Annual percentage change |
Food group | -0.4 | 4.4 |
Fruit and vegetables | -4.5 | 3.7 |
Meat, poultry, and fish | -0.1 | 7.7 |
Grocery food | -0.1 | 4.6 |
Non-alcoholic beverages | 1.2 | 4.4 |
Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food | 0.2 | 2.4 |
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco group | 0.1 | 2.5 |
Alcoholic beverages | -0.1 | 0.7 |
Cigarettes and tobacco | 0.3 | 5.8 |
Housing and household utilities group | … | … |
Stock measure of rental property | 0.1 | 1.4 |
Flow measure of rental property | 0.7 | 0.5 |
Electricity | 0.1 | 12.3 |
Gas | 2.2 | 17.3 |
Transport group | … | … |
Petrol | 1.8 | 2.8 |
Diesel | 3.0 | 6.2 |
Domestic air transport | 6.5 | -14.4 |
International air transport | 0.4 | 3.9 |
Recreation and culture group | … | … |
Domestic accommodation | 7.1 | -1.0 |
International accommodation | -0.5 | 8.8 |
Symbol: … not applicable Source: Stats NZ | ||
Update on flow of rental properties measures
This release includes the flow of rental properties measures (national and regional).
This data has not been included since November 2024 as work was needed to integrate the data to meet customer expectations, following an update to the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment’s tenancy bond-lodgement system.
The complete flow of rental properties time series from December 2024 to November 2025 has been calculated and included in this release. Some caution is advised about the quality of the data between December 2024 and May 2025.
More data
Use Infoshare to access time-series 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: December 2025 will be released on 16 January 2026.
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