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 January 2026 with December 2025 for the monthly percentage change, and January 2026 with January 2025 for the annual percentage change.
Group, subgroup, class, item, or selected section | Monthly percentage change | Annual percentage change |
Food group | 2.5 | 4.6 |
Fruit and vegetables | 6.7 | 6.3 |
Meat, poultry, and fish | 3.2 | 8.9 |
Grocery food | 2.3 | 4.0 |
Non-alcoholic beverages | 2.7 | 4.0 |
Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food | 0.2 | 2.6 |
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco group | 1.6 | 2.0 |
Alcoholic beverages | 0.7 | 0.3 |
Cigarettes and tobacco | 3.4 | 5.4 |
Housing and household utilities group | … | … |
Stock measure of rental property | 0.0 | 1.2 |
Flow measure of rental property | 5.6 | 1.6 |
Electricity | 0.3 | 11.5 |
Gas | -0.1 | 14.1 |
Transport group | … | … |
Petrol | -2.4 | -4.8 |
Diesel | -3.2 | -4.9 |
Domestic air transport | -5.5 | -5.5 |
International air transport | -13.8 | 4.0 |
Recreation and culture group | … | … |
Domestic accommodation | -0.5 | 1.5 |
International accommodation | -10.1 | 1.4 |
Symbol: … not applicable Source: Stats NZ | ||
We have included a catch-up movement in this release for the following series:
- SE902 – Alcoholic beverages and tobacco group
- SE9021 – Alcoholic beverages
- SE902101 – Beer
- SE902102 – Wine
- SE902103 – Spirits and liqueurs.
Subject category: Economic indicators
Group: Consumers price index – CPI
This corrects an error from how we implemented our outlet weight review for the month of December 2025. The error does not impact any Consumers price index: December 2025 quarter series.
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.
Technical enquiries
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Next release
Selected price indexes: February 2026 will be released on 17 March 2026.
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