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7 December 2016: Infoshare is now available following this morning's outage.

Upcoming data changes

  • The final Christchurch Retail Trade Indicator due to be published on Tuesday, 20 December 2016 will no longer go ahead. This series ceased at the June 2016 quarter. 

  • Information about data changes for Auckland Council: Changes to Auckland’s local government came into effect on 1 November 2010. For information on how Statistics New Zealand is managing data affected by the council restructure, please visit www.stats.govt.nz/aucklandcouncil. We will add details in the 'Changes by date' below when Infoshare is affected.

Details of the series changed will be added to the calendar below before the data is released.

Changes by date 



December 2016
 21 December International Travel and Migration (ITM)

The Export direct function for this morning’s release at 10.45am initially displayed only data up to October 2016. From 11.45am this was updated and data is now available up to November 2016.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
 21 December National Accounts (Industry Production and Investment): Year ended March 2015 and National Accounts (Income and Expenditure): Year ended March 2016

On 20 December we corrected an error in the series flags for the following time series:
SNEA.SG03NAC12D24H, National Accounts - SNA, 2008 - SNE Taxes on Production, Excise duty on motor vehicles
SNEA.SG03NAC12D29J, National Accounts - SNA, 2008 - SNE Taxes on Production, Stamp duty on instruments
SNEA.SG03NAC12D29L, National Accounts - SNA, 2008 - SNE Taxes on Production, Fishing resources rentals & cost recovery
SNEA.SG03NAC12D29M, National Accounts - SNA, 2008 - SNE Taxes on Production, Land tax

These were flagged ‘F’ for ‘Final’ and have now been corrected to ‘P’ for ‘Provisional’ in 2015.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this error.
 16 December (GFS) Government Finance Statistics (General Government): Year ended June 2016
This release will introduce new detailed GFS balance sheet instruments and alter the existing Infoshare series identifiers for central and local government.

For more details on the changes, and a copy of the new tables and series identifiers, see our Changes to government finance statistics releases information paper.
 16 December (TPT) Release of transport vehicle registrations data: November 2016.
 15 December (BUO) Business Operations Survey
We are correcting the 2014 figures for the following series:
A - Total R&D activity expenditure by Industry (Annual-Aug)
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by these errors.
 15 December  (DPE) Population Estimates

We have corrected provisional Estimated Resident Population (SG* SH*) figures for the September 2016.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by these errors.
 15 December (SEP) Ready Mixed Concrete by region: September 2016 quarter (SEP+.SAF++)
 13 December  National Accounts (Industry Production and Investment): Year ended March 2015

Improvements to measuring industry production
New provisional estimates of industry contributions to GDP for 2015 are available in this year’s annual accounts. For more information please refer to the National Accounts (Industry Production and Investment): Year ended March 2015 release.
 13 December National Accounts (Industry Production and Investment): Year ended March 2015

On 13 December we corrected an error in the series titles for the following time series:
SNEA.SG04NAC30P40C – Series, National disposable income account, Nominal, Actual, Inst. Sector (Annual-Mar) Actual Final Consumption, Final General Government
SNEA.SG04NAC30P40Z – Series, National disposable income account, Nominal, Actual, Inst. Sector (Annual-Mar) Actual Final Consumption, Total all institutional sectors

The error resulted in the numbers for these series being switched with each other. This inconsistency has been present in these two series since the 2011 publication. Therefore, both these time series have now been revised back to 1972.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this error. 
 13 December The following series will not be published with the 2016 annual National Accounts Infoshare data as they are subject to a confidentiality review:
SNEA.SG01NAC32B01BB111 – Series, GDP(P), Nominal, Actual, ANZSIC06 working, Gross Domestic Product – production measure, Coal Mining
SNEA.SG01NAC32B01BB112 – Series, GDP(P), Nominal, Actual, ANZSIC06 working, Gross Domestic Product – production measure, Oil and Gas Extraction
SNEA.SG01NAC32B01BB113 – Series, GDP(P), Nominal, Actual, ANZSIC06 working, Gross Domestic Product – production measure, Metal Ore and Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
SNEA.SG01NAC32B01BB114 – Series, GDP(P), Nominal, Actual, ANZSIC06 working, Gross Domestic Product – production measure, Exploration and Other Mining Support Services
 13 December

(TEX, TRX, TIM) The Overseas Merchandise Trade Harmonised System 10-digit

The Trade job to update INFOSHARE with the provisional October, September, and August months, and final data for July 2016 is scheduled for Tuesday 13 December 2016 from 11:00am until about 5:30pm.
If you try to access these datasets during this time you could get an error or incorrect data.

 12 December (SSS) Selected Services Survey data released for September 2016 quarter
 7 December (PRP) - Primary Production: Poultry (Meat chicken - dressed weight and number, fresh or frozen) Release: September 2016 quarter and year - PRP+.SAAD*


November 2016
 30 November Infoshare data is now available for the following subjects released during November 2016:

Vitals Births and Deaths – Year ended September 2016
Birth Rates – DFM
Births – VSB
Death Rates – DMM
Deaths – VSD

Business Price Index – September quarter 2016
Capital Goods Price Index – CEP
Producers Price Index – PPI
Energy Statistics – NRG
Farm Inputs – FPI

Retail Trade Survey – September quarter 2016
Retail Trade (ANZSIC06) – RTT
Retail Trade Deflators (ANZSIC06) – RTE

Overseas Merchandise Trade – October 2016
Broad Economic Categories –- BEC
Exports – Summary Data – EXP
Imports – Summary Data – IMP
Overseas Cargo Statistics – OSC
Overseas Trade Statistics – OTT
Re-Exports – Summary Data – REX
 30 November (TPT) Release of transport vehicle registrations data: October 2016.
 25 November (TIM, TEX and TRX) Overseas Merchandise Trade – October 2016
Harmonised – HS Trade TIM, TEX and TRX commodity level information is not available on INFOSHARE.

(DPE) Population estimates
The September 2016 period is now available on INFOSHARE.
 22 November  International Travel and Migration: October 2016 - modified information release - has Excel tables and key facts only. No data for this release is available on Infoshare.
 18 November

 Available via Export Direct only:

(RTT & RTE) Retail trade

(PPI, FPI & CEP) Business prices indexes

(VSB, VSD, DFM & DMM) Births and deaths
 11 November  (ACS) Accommodation Survey
On 11 November 2016 we corrected an error in the following tables for the September 2015 and September 2016 months:

RTO by variable (Monthly) - ACSM.S10*
Territorial authority by variable (Monthly) - ACSM.S17*

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this error.
 10 November  (HLF) Household Labour Force Survey
On 10 November 2016 we corrected an error in the following annual table for
the September 2016 quarter:

HLFA.S8C*S – Youth NEET by Regional Council by Age

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this error.
 8 November

 (HPI) Household living-costs price indexes – Non-standard series

On 8 November 2016 we released 378 new time series on Infoshare. There are 27 non-standard indexes for each of our 14 new HLPI indexes (which were released 6 October 2016 at the all groups, group, and subgroup levels).
• All groups less credit services
• All groups less central and local government charges
• All groups - goods component
• All groups - services component
• All groups less food group
• All groups less alcoholic beverages & tobacco
• All groups less clothing & footwear group
• All groups less housing, household utilities
• All groups less household contents & services
• All groups less health group
• All groups less transport group
• All groups less communication group
• All groups less recreation & culture group
• All groups less education group
• All groups less misc. goods & services
• All groups less housing, utilities, and credit services
• All groups less purchase of housing class
• All groups less household energy and vehicles fuels
• All groups less vehicle fuels
• All groups less food and vehicle fuels
• All groups less petrol class
• All groups less food, household energy, and vehicle fuels
• All groups less international travel
• All groups less alcoholic beverages subgroup
• All groups less cigarettes & tobacco subgroup
• All groups less rentals for housing
• All groups less food, household energy, vehicle fuels, & government charges

The HLPIs measure the change in price of goods and services purchased by specific household types. For more information go to the background information paper.

 7 November  (CPI) Consumers Price Index

We have corrected the September 2016 quarter CPI as a result of a manual processing error.

The correction affects the CPI all groups series, non-tradables, and the transport group.

For further details, including series identifiers for corrected series, and for selected groupings, please see 'Consumers price index: September 2016 quarter - corrected' on our website.
 2 November (HLF) Household Labour Force Survey
On 2 November 2016 we corrected an error in the following annual tables:
For the March 2014 to June 2016 quarters

HLFA.SU* - Persons underemployed by sex
HLFA.SU*J - Persons underemployed by sex
HLFA.SU*S - Persons underemployed by sex
HLFA.SU*D - Persons underemployed by sex

We also revised the associated sample errors for these series for the periods March 2004 to June 2016
HLFQ.SUSE* - Persons underemployed by sex – Sampling Errors

We also discontinued the following series:
HLFQ.SY* - Armed Forces Data
As a result of changes to the target population in the household labour force survey, armed forces members that reside in private dwellings are no longer out of scope, and are now included in the working age population (WAP) estimate.

Counts of defence force personnel can be obtained from
http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/what-we-do/personnel-composition.htm

We apologise for any inconvenience these changes may cause.


October 2016
 31 October (LSS) Livestock Slaughtering Statistics data released for September 2016
Note: The data is provisional for 3 months from the time of its release.
 26 October (TEX, TRX, TIM) Overseas Merchandise Trade Harmonised System 10-digit is down for maintenance from 1:30pm until about 5:30pm on Wednesday 26 October 2016. If you try to access these datasets during this time you could get an error or incorrect data.
 26 October (BOP) BPM6 Services by country, year ended in quarter (Qrtly-Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec)
On 26 October 2016 status flags were updated for a number of series within the Services Trade by Country, year ended in quarter series. No data values were changed.
 18 October

(EUS) Energy Use Survey

We will publish 2016 results on Infoshare on 18 October 2016 at 10.45am, and include appropriate time series when they are available.
From 2016, the year reflects the year in which the survey was run.
When the survey was run in 2015 the data was published as 2014 data, so 2015 cells are empty. However, there is no gap in the annual series.
You can download tables from Infoshare in either Excel or CSV format.

 14 October

(ISP) Internet Service Provider Survey

We will publish 2016 results on Infoshare on 14 October 2016 at 10.45am, and include appropriate time series when they are available.
You can download tables from Infoshare in either Excel or CSV format.

 11 October (ECT) Electronic Card Transactions

We revised the August 2016 month data after discovering an error in the process of calculating the imputation for the missing data in the durables industry. This revision also affects the aggregate values and volumes for total core retail, total retail, and the total series. This revision affects the following series:

S19 - Total values - Electronic card transactions A/S/T by division
RTS total industries, actual, monthly
RTS core industries, actual, monthly
Total, actual, monthly
Credit, actual, monthly

S1G - Values - Electronic card transactions A/S/T by industry group
Durables, actual, monthly

S29 - Number of electronic card transactions A/S/T by division
RTS total industries, actual, monthly
RTS core industries, actual, monthly
Total, actual, monthly
Credit, actual, monthly

S4 - Electronic card transactions by mean and proportion
Mean transaction value, actual, monthly
Credit card usage as a proportion of total ECT value, actual, monthly
Debit card usage as a proportion of total ECT value, actual, monthly

S19 - Totals - Electronic card transactions by division, percentage changes
RTS total industries, actual, monthly
RTS core industries, actual, monthly
Total, actual, monthly
 10 October (TPT) Release of transport vehicle registrations data: September 2016.
 6 October

(HPI) Household living-costs price indexes

On 6th October 2016 we released 826 new time series on Infoshare. These series cover the all groups, group, and sub-group levels of 14 new indexes.
- All households
- Beneficiary
- Superannuitant
- Māori
- Income quintile 1 (low)
- Income quintile 2
- Income quintile 3
- Income quintile 4
- Income quintile 5 (high)
- Expenditure quintile 1 (low)
- Expenditure quintile 2
- Expenditure quintile 3
- Expenditure quintile 4
- Expenditure quintile 5 (high)

These series measure the change in price of goods and services purchased by specific household types.
For more information on these new series go to the background information paper.


September 2016
 30 September  (LSS) Livestock Slaughtering Statistics data released for August 2016
Note: The data is provisional for 3 months from the time of its release.
 29 September  (BOP) Balance of Payments
(IIP) International Investment Position
On 29 September 2016 we removed the historic revision flags (R) from the March 2001–March 2011 year ends. These indicated revisions we made in 2015. We can confirm that revisions this year were made only to series between 2012–15. No figures have changed from the previous version released on 28 September 2016.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
 27 September  (HLF) Household Labour Force Survey
The following Household Labour Force (HLF) annual series will be released on 27 September 2016. (The original release date of 17 August 2016 was delayed.)

HLFA.S2* – Labour Force Status by Sex by Regional Council
HLFA.S2A* – Labour Force Status by Ethnic Group by Regional Council
HLFA.S6* – Labour Force Status by Sex by Sing/Comb Ethnic Group
HLFA.S7* – Labour Force Status by Sex by Total Resp Ethnic Group
HLFA.S7A* – Labour Force Status by Total Resp Ethnic Group and Age Group
HLFA.S8* – Youth Labour Force and Education Status
HLFA.S8A* – Youth Labour Force and Education Status by Total Resp Ethnic Group by Age Group
HLFA.S8B* – Youth Labour Force and Education Status by Total Resp Ethnic Group by Sex
HLFA.S8C* – Youth NEET by Regional Council by Age
HLFA.SA* – Labour Force Status by Sex by Age Group
HLFA.SA2* – Labour Force Status by Age Group by Region Council
HLFA.SD* – Labour Force Status for people aged 15 to 64 years
HLFA.SGD* – Labour force status by highest qualification by sex
HLFA.SI* – Employed Persons, Full & Part-Time Status by Sex
HLFA.SJC* – Persons Employed by Sex by Industry, ANZSIC06
HLFA.SJC2* – Person Employed by Sex by Industry (ANZSIC06) by Regional Council
HLFA.SLA* – Persons Employed by Sex by Employment Status
HLFA.SLB* – Persons Employed by Employment Status by Industry, ANZSIC06
HLFA.SSD* – Unemployed by Sex by Method of Seeking Employment
HLFA.SU* – Persons Underemployed by Sex
HLFA.SU2* – Persons Underemployed by Sex by Regional Council
HLFA.SWD* – Unemployed by Sex by Duration of Unemployment
HLFA.SXD* – Underutilisation by Sex
HLFA.SXD2* – Underutilisation by Sex by Regional Council
HLFA.SVD* – Labour Force Status by Sex by Reason for Leaving Last Job
HLFA.SZB* – Persons Employed by Sex by Occupation, ANZSCO

We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this delay.
 26 September

 (TEX, TRX, TIM) Harmonised Trade

After the release of Overseas Merchandise Trade: August 2016 on 26 September 2016, selected confidential Harmonised System 10-digit codes will have more data publicly available. These changes result from the annual confidentiality review, with datasets from 2007 onwards being affected.

Previously confidential data for the following HS 10-digit codes will also be available on 26 September:
• 4411.12.01.00 (medium density fibreboard (MDF), of a thickness not exceeding 5mm, not mechanically worked or surface covered)
• 4411.13.01.00 (medium density fibreboard (MDF), of a thickness exceeding 5mm but not exceeding 9mm, not mechanically worked or surface covered)
• 4411.14.01.00 (medium density fibreboard (MDF), of a thickness exceeding 9mm, not mechanically worked or surface covered).

For further information, please email overseastrade@stats.govt.nz.
 23 September  (RTI) Christchurch Retail Trade Indicator – June 2016 quarter

Based on feedback from customers, and reduced demand for this information, we will discontinue this series after the September 2016 quarter (to be published 20 December 2016).
If you have any queries please contact:
Tehseen Islam
Christchurch 03 964 8320
Email: info@stats.govt.nz
 21 September

(ITM) International Travel and Migration
International travel and migration data is now being processed using a new, upgraded processing system, starting with August 2016 data (released on 21 September 2016).

This new system uses improved methodology, which takes greater account of travellers' history in addition to intentions stated on the arrival and departure cards. It also makes greater use of automation in the processing and classification of passenger types.

In particular the changes that affect Infoshare series the most are:
- Imputation of country of residence for visitor arrivals, which decreases ‘not stated’ responses in all ‘Visitor arrivals by country of residence’ series.
- Using matched information from the previous arrival for ‘Visitor departures’ series. In particular ‘Visitor departures by country of residence’ have moved from sample counts to matched actual (non-sample) counts.

For more information, see our International Travel and Migration processing system changes in August 2016 note in DataInfo+.

 16 September  (HLF) Household Labour Force Survey

On 16 September we corrected an error in the following tables:

HLFQ.S2A* - Labour Force Status by Ethnic Group by Regional Council – North and South Island figures between December 2007 and March 2016 were updated.
HLFQ.SU2* - Persons Underemployed by Sex by Regional Council – number of people underemployed, and the underemployment rate figures between September 2009 and March 2016 were updated.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this error.
 13 September  (HLF) Household Labour Force Survey

On 13 September we removed the underutilisation rate from the S2 series:

HLFQ.S2 - Labour Force by Sex by Regional Council
HLFQ.S2I+++ - Underutilisation rate

You can still obtain underutilisation rates from the following Infoshare series:

HLFQ.SXD – Underutilisation by Sex
HLFQ.SXD2 – Underutilisation by Sex by Regional Council

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this change.
 13 September  (HLF) Household Labour Force Survey

On 13 September we corrected an error in the following series:

HLFQ.SGD* Labour force status by highest qualification by sex for the 2016.06 period
HLFQ.SGD**[RX] - No qualification
HLFQ.SGD**[RY] - Not specified

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this error.
 12 September (TPT) Transport
We made some corrections to an error in the August 2016 monthly data. A calculation error resulted in some of the total series being double their correct value.

The series identifiers affected are:
TPTM.S56ZA
TPTM.S56ZB
TPTM.S56ZZ

These have been updated at 3.30pm, 12 September 2016. 
 12 September (TPT) Release of transport vehicle registrations data: August 2016.
 8 September (HLF) Household Labour Force Survey

On 8 September we corrected an error in the following series:

HLFQ.SGD* Labour force status by highest qualification by sex for the 2016.06 period
HLFQ.SGD**[RX] - No qualification
HLFQ.SGD**[RY] - Not specified

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this error.
 7 September  (BUO) Business Operations Survey

We are correcting the 2015 figures for the following series:
B – Total product development expenditure (Annual-Aug)
We will now add backdata to this series to 2007.
The Innovation module is run every two years, alternating with Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and began in 2007.

We are also correcting the 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013 figures for the following series:
B – Product development and related activities expenditure by Business Size (Annual-Aug)
B – Product development and related activities expenditure by Industry(Annual-Aug)

These revisions and additions will be made on 7 September 2016.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by these errors.
 6 September (SSS) Selected Services Survey data released for June 2016 quarter


August 2016
 31 August  (LSS) Livestock Slaughtering Statistics data released for July 2016
Note: The data is provisional for 3 months from the time of its release.
 17 August  (HLF) Household Labour Force Survey
The following Household Labour Force (HLF) annual series will not be released on 17 August 2016.

If you are using export direct, you will get no data for the annuals of the series ID listed below.
If you use browse, the data will be based on the previous method, not the latest. 

See Household Labour Force Survey – Revisions to labour market estimates for information about the changes to HLFS methodology.

HLFA.S2* – Labour Force Status by Sex by Regional Council
HLFA.S2A* – Labour Force Status by Ethnic Group by Regional Council
HLFA.S6* – Labour Force Status by Sex by Sing/Comb Ethnic Group
HLFA.S7* – Labour Force Status by Sex by Total Resp Ethnic Group
HLFA.S7A* – Labour Force Status by Total Resp Ethnic Group and Age Group
HLFA.S8* – Youth Labour Force and Education Status
HLFA.S8A* – Youth Labour Force and Education Status by Total Resp Ethnic Group by Age Group
HLFA.S8B* – Youth Labour Force and Education Status by Total Resp Ethnic Group by Sex
HLFA.S8C* – Youth NEET by Regional Council by Age
HLFA.SA* – Labour Force Status by Sex by Age Group
HLFA.SA2* – Labour Force Status by Age Group by Region Council
HLFA.SD* – Labour Force Status for people aged 15 to 64 years
HLFA.SGD* – Labour force status by highest qualification by sex
HLFA.SI* – Employed Persons, Full & Part-Time Status by Sex
HLFA.SJC* – Persons Employed by Sex by Industry, ANZSIC06
HLFA.SJC2* – Person Employed by Sex by Industry (ANZSIC06) by Regional Council
HLFA.SLA* – Persons Employed by Sex by Employment Status
HLFA.SLB* – Persons Employed by Employment Status by Industry, ANZSIC06
HLFA.SSD* – Unemployed by Sex by Method of Seeking Employment
HLFA.SU* – Persons Underemployed by Sex
HLFA.SU2* – Persons Underemployed by Sex by Regional Council
HLFA.SWD* – Unemployed by Sex by Duration of Unemployment
HLFA.SXD* – Underutilisation by Sex
HLFA.SXD2* – Underutilisation by Sex by Regional Council
HLFA.SVD* – Labour Force Status by Sex by Reason for Leaving Last Job
HLFA.SZB* – Persons Employed by Sex by Occupation, ANZSCO

We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this delay.

We will release these series as they become available.
 17 August

(HLF) Household Labour Force Survey

On 17 August we will release the first Labour Market Statistics incorporating data from the redeveloped Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS).

The following summarises the new Infoshare tables that will be available and the tables that will be discontinued.

New series:
HLF+.SGD* Labour force status by highest qualification by sex
HLF+.SVD* Labour Force Status by Sex by Reason for Leaving Last Job
HLF+.SOD* Not in LF by Sex by Main Activity
HLF+.SOD* Not in LF by Sex by Main Activity - Sampling Errors
HLF+.SQD* Not in LF by Sex by Reason for Not Seeking Work
HLF+.SRD* Not in LF by Sex by Seeking Work but Not Available
HLF+.SMB* Persons Employed by Sex by Job by Hours Worked
HLF+.SXD* Underutilisation by Sex
HLF+.SXD* Underutilisation by Sex - Sampling errors
HLF+.SXD2* Underutilisation by Sex by Regional Council
HLF+.SWD* Unemployed by Sex by Duration of Unemployment
HLF+.SSD* Unemployed by Sex by Method of Seeking Employment
HLF+.S7B* Labour force status by sex for people of Maori descent
HLF+.SD* Labour force status for people aged 15 to 64 years
HLF+.SE* Labour Force Status for people aged 15 to 64 years: Seasonally Adjusted
HLF+.SQE* Not in LF by Sex by Reason for Not Wanting Work
HLF+.SLE* Paid employees by employment relationship by sex
HLF+.SLC* Paid employees by type of employment agreement by sex by age group
HLF+.SLD* Paid employees by union membership by sex by age group
HLF+.SMD* Persons employed in the labour force, by job tenure by sex by age group

Discontinued Series:
HLF+.SG* Labour Force Status by Sex by Qualification Gained
HLF+.SVB* Unemployed by Sex by Reason for Leaving Last Job
HLF+.SOC* Not in Labour Force by Sex by Main Activity
HLF+.SOC* Not in Labour Force by Sex by Main Activity - Sampling errors
HLF+.SQC* Not in LF by Sex by Reason for Not Seeking Work
HLF+.SRC* Not in LF by Sex by Seeking Work but Not Available
HLF+.SMA* Persons Employed by Sex by Job by Hours Worked
HLF+.SXR* The Jobless by Sex by Type
HLF+.SXR* The Jobless by Sex by Type - Sampling errors
HLF+.SXR2* The Jobless by Sex by Type by Regional Council
HLF+.SWB* Unemployed by Sex by Duration of Unemployment
HLF+.SSB* Unemployed by Sex by Method of Seeking Employment
HLF+.SB* Labour Force Status by Sex by Marital Status
HLF+.SYC* Persons Unemployed in the Labour Force by Sex, by Occupation Sought, ANZSCO

See Changes in accessing HLFS labour market statistics for more detailed information.
 16 August  (VSB) Births and (VSD) Deaths

We applied random rounding to 3 for births and deaths data published on 17 May 2016 (all monthly data, March 2016 quarter data, and annual data ). All remaining time periods will be randomly rounded on 16 August 2016.

We will also delete the series ‘Live births, stillbirths by single/multiple combinations – VSBA.S65*’ and replace it with ‘Twins and other multiples (including single births and live/still combinations) – VSBA. S97*’.

The new series IDs for ‘Twins and other multiples (including single births and live/still combinations) (Annual-Dec)’ are:
VSBA.S97AD – All confinements
VSBA.S97BD – Single birth - live
VSBA.S97CD – Single birth - still
VSBA.S97DD – Twins - both live
VSBA.S97ED – Twins - one live, one still
VSBA.S97FD – Twins - both still
VSBA.S97GD – Triplets and other multiple confinements

We will also rename the series ‘Live births by month and year of birth’ and ‘Deaths by month and year of death,’ to ‘Month and year of birth’ and ‘Month and year of death’. Both series IDs will stay the same.
 9 August  (PRP) - Primary Production: Poultry (Meat chicken - dressed weight and number, fresh or frozen) Release: June 2016 quarter and year - PRP+.SAAD*
 8 August  (SEP) Ready Mixed Concrete by Region: June 2016 quarter (SEPQ.SAFR3)
Correction

At 3pm we have corrected ready-mixed concrete production figures for the June 2016 quarter for region 3: Taranaki, Manawatu-Wanganui, Wellington.
 8 August  (SEP) Ready Mixed Concrete by region: June 2016 quarter (SEP+.SAF++)
 5 August  (TPT) Release of transport vehicle registrations data: July 2016.
 3 August  (TPT) Release of transport vehicle registrations data: June 2016.


July 2016
 29 July  (LSS) Livestock Slaughtering Statistics data released for June 2016
Note: The data is provisional for 3 months from the time of its release.
 26 July

The following Harmonised System 10-digit codes will be confidential for at least 24 months for Exports data from March 2016, in accordance with the overseas trade confidentiality policy:

Exports (TEX, TRX) –
4411.12.01.00: Medium density fibreboard (MDF), of a thickness exceeding 5 mm but not exceeding 9 mm, not mechanically worked or surface covered
4411.13.01.00: Medium density fibreboard (MDF), of a thickness exceeding 9 mm, not mechanically worked or surface covered
4411.14.01.00: Medium density fibreboard (MDF), of a thickness not exceeding 5 mm, not mechanically worked or surface covered

For further information, please email overseastrade@stats.govt.nz
 6 July (BUO) Business Operations Survey
We have corrected the 2007, 2009, and 2011 figures for the following series:
B - Source of ideas or information for innovation by Business Size (Annual-Aug)
B - Source of ideas or information for innovation by Industry (Annual-Aug)

These figures were previously uploaded in the wrong variable category:
‘Source of ideas of information for innovation’

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this error.
 5 July

(LSS) Livestock Slaughtering Statistics data released for May 2016
Note: The data is provisional for 3 months from the time of its release.
This update is based on the livestock slaughtering result re-released on Ministry for Primary Industries website on 29th of June 2016.



June 2016
 30 June (LSS) Livestock Slaughtering Statistics data released for May 2016
Note: The data is provisional for 3 months from the time of its release.
 23 June

(BUO) Business Operations Survey

We have now added data back to 2008 from the ICT module (Section B) of the Business Operations Survey to Infoshare. The ICT module is run every two years, alternating with Innovation, and began in 2008.

 21 June

(RTI) Christchurch Retail Trade Indicator - March 2016 quarter

We are evaluating the future of the Christchurch Retail Trade Indicator publication. As we are five years on from the Christchurch earthquake events, we are interested in your feedback on the usefulness and level of demand for this data.
If you are a regular user of the Christchurch Retail Trade Indicator please contact:
Tehseen Islam
Christchurch 03 964 8320
Email: info@stats.govt.nz 
 17 June  (LAF) Local Authority Financial Statistics
On 17 November 2015 Wanganui District Council was renamed Whanganui District Council. http://www.whanganui.govt.nz/our-district/spelling/Pages/default.aspx. This change has now been made to the LAF.

We added a new unit in 'Local Authority Financial Statistics financial position (Annual-Jun)' under 'Local councils' called Eliminations. This unit eliminates Auckland Council’s equity investment in its subsidiaries, which are included within the LAFS coverage, and prevents double counting their equity when they are aggregated. The change was implemented in 2011, when eight councils were amalgamated to form Auckland Council.

In all LAF tables we have changed 'Total' to 'Total (excluding Museums)', which now refers to local authorities only.

We have created CSV files for you to download all the data, the file is under Government Finance: Local Authority Financial Statistics: Year ended June 2015
 17 June  (GFS) Government Finance Statistics

We corrected the names of the following variables. The underlying data has not been altered as result of these changes.

Local Government, Balance Sheet, Net Balances
GFSA.SLS02G01Z90 has become GFSA.SLS02G01Z92 and has been corrected from 'Net operating balance' to 'Net worth'
GFSA.SLS02G01Z91 has become GFSA.SLS02G01Z93 and has been corrected from 'Net lending/borrowing' to 'Net financial worth'

We have included new tax series to align the Local Government layout with the Central Government release.
The two tables are:
Local Government, Taxation Revenue, Taxes incl Income, Payroll and Other (Annual-Jun) Series: GFSA.SLS04G1011++
Local Government, Taxation Revenue, Taxes on Int'l Trade and Transactions (Annual-Jun) Series: GFSA.SLS04G1311++
These tables contain no data for Local Government as those taxes are administered only by Central Government at this time.
 15 June  (HLF) Household Labour Force Survey

We have corrected an error in the following two time series.

Total Number of Usual Hours Worked Each Week by Regional Council, Canterbury – HLFQ.SP2AQL
Total Number of Actual Hours Worked Each Week by Regional Council, Canterbury – HLFQ.SH2AQL
9 June (TPT) Release of transport vehicle registrations data: May 2016.
 8 June  (RTT) Retail Trade (ANZSIC06)
Series, Retail Trade Stocks, All industries total, in current prices, Seasonally adjusted, Trend (Qrtly-Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec)

We have corrected an error discovered in the calculation of the seasonal adjustment and trend series for total retail trade stocks – June 1995 to March 2016 quarters.

The revision only impacts on the Total industries current stocks for:
• Seasonally Adjusted, total retail trade stocks in current prices – RTTQ.S2S9C
• Trend, total retail trade stocks in current prices – RTTQ.S2T9C

There are no changes to the 15 current stock industries or to the core retail trade (excluding the vehicle related industries) series.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this error.
7 June (SSS) Selected Services Survey data released for March 2016 quarter
1 June (FLT) Release of forestry, logging and timber production data: December 2015 quarter


May 2016
31 May (LSS) Livestock Slaughtering Statistics data released for April 2016
Note: The data is provisional for 3 months from the time of its release.
 25 May  The following Harmonised System 10-digit code will be confidential for at least 24 months for Imports data from January 2016, in accordance with the overseas trade confidentiality policy:

Imports (TIM) –
3903.11.00.00: Styrene polymers; expansible polystyrene, in primary forms

For further information, please email overseastrade@stats.govt.nz
 25 May (PRP) - Primary Production: Poultry (Meat chicken - dressed weight and number, fresh or frozen) Release: March 2016 quarter and year - PRP+.SAAD*
 24 May (ALC) Release of alcohol available for consumption data: March 2016 quarter and year.
 17 May  (VSB) Births and (VSD) Deaths
We are introducing random rounding to 3 for the births and deaths series. We applied the random rounding to data published on 17 May 2016 (all monthly data and March 2016 quarterly, and annual data). We plan to round the remaining time periods by the next data release on 16 August 2016.
 16 May (SEP) Ready Mixed Concrete by region: March 2016 quarter (SEP+.SAF++)
 12 May (TPT) Release of transport vehicle registrations data: April 2016.
 4 May (UMP) Registered Unemployed Jobseekers

We will no longer update the Infoshare series Registered Unemployed Jobseekers Total New Zealand (UMP). The data comes from the Ministry of Social Development, which no longer produces or reports these numbers.
 4 May

 (VSM) Marriages, Civil Unions, and Divorces
We have updated the VSM suite of series as part of the December 2015 Marriages, Civil Unions, and Divorces release on 4 May 2016. The update included replacing separate marriages and civil union series, including dissolutions, with a combined series and applying random rounding to 3. This has changed most series identifiers, as we have discontinued the previous series.

We have created a concordance for the seriesID.


April 2016
 29 April

 (GFS) Government Finance Statistics

We corrected the names of the following variables. The underlying data has not been altered as result of these changes.

Central Government, Balance Sheet, Net Balances
GFSA.SCS02G01Z90 is now GFSA.SCS02G01Z92 and has been corrected from 'Net operating balance' to 'Net worth'.
GFSA.SCS02G01Z91 is now GFSA.SCS02G01Z93 and has been corrected from 'Net lending/borrowing' to 'Net financial worth'.

Central Government, Taxation Revenue, Taxes on Goods and Services
GFSA.SCS04G121140 has been corrected from ‘Taxes and goods and services’ to ‘Taxes on goods and services’.

 29 April  (LSS) Livestock Slaughtering Statistics data released for March 2016
Note: The data is provisional for 3 months from the time of its release.  
 21 April

 (BAS) Building Activity Survey

On 21 April 2016 we released 368 new time series on Infoshare. The methodology introduced in the December 2014 quarter for estimating the value of building work put in place has allowed us to make this data available.
Building activity by region – 92 series:
• New and altered actual value of work in New Zealand for seven existing and two new (more detailed) categories of non-residential buildings. These nine non-residential building types match those in building consent statistics. The two additional categories provide more detail within commercial buildings, and factories, industrial, and storage buildings:
o shops, restaurants, and bars
o office, administration, and public transport buildings
o storage buildings
o factories and industrial buildings.
• Value of work for nine non-residential building categories, for six regions.

Building activity quality –276 series:
• Three series for each of the added actual non-residential buildings value series – modelling error, modelled rate, and imputed rate.

Note: Modelling methodology enables us to provide regional estimates, but the modelled rate and modelling error are higher for some building types and regions than at the national level. By region, the modelled rate by building type ranges from 5 to 100 percent, with modelling error ranging from less than 1 to more than 17 percent.

Link to the details of the series identifiers

 19 April

 (BUO) Business Operations Survey

 Additional edits applied have resulted in small changes to the number of businesses selling goods and services to overseas markets (Section C) in 2015.

The following tables are affected:
C – Overseas sales of goods and services by Industry (Annual-Aug)
C – Overseas sales of goods and services by Business Size (Annual-Aug)
C – Time selling goods and services overseas by Industry (Annual-Aug)
C – Time selling goods and services overseas by Business Size (Annual-Aug)
C – Generate higher profit margins by Industry (Annual-Aug)
C – Generate higher profit margins by Business Size (Annual-Aug)
C – Sales of goods and services to overseas markets by Industry (Annual-Aug)
C – Sales of goods and services to overseas markets by Business Size (Annual-Aug)
C – International engagement success factors by Industry (Annual-Aug)
C – International engagement success factors by Business Size (Annual-Aug)
C – International engagement marketing strategies by Industry (Annual-Aug)
C – International engagement marketing strategies by Business Size (Annual-Aug)
C – International engagement delivery methods by Industry (Annual-Aug)
C – International engagement delivery methods by Business Size (Annual-Aug)
C – Barriers to overseas sales of goods and services by Industry (Annual-Aug)
C – Barriers to overseas sales of goods and services by Business Size (Annual-Aug)
C – Sources to support international engagement by Industry (Annual-Aug)
C – Sources to support international engagement by Business Size (Annual-Aug)
Totals – International Engagement (Annual-Aug) 

See Business Operations Survey: 2015 – Correction for more details.



 18 April  (TPT) Release of transport vehicle registrations data: March 2016.
 12 April  (SNE) National Accounts - SNA 2008
Series, Implicit price deflator, Seasonally adjusted, Asset type (Qrtly-Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec)

Correction to implicit price deflator for seasonally adjusted residential building investment SeriesID SNEQ.SG08NSC11P51AN1110
We corrected the December 2015 seasonally adjusted implicit price deflator for residential building investment from 1222 to 1213.

The error has no effect on the quarterly seasonally adjusted implicit price deflator for gross fixed capital formation or any other series.
 6 April  (BUO) Business Operations Survey
We will publish 2015 results on Infoshare, and include appropriate time series when they are available. Variables not collected in the 2015 survey will be progressively added to Infoshare. You can download tables from Infoshare in either Excel or CSV format.
 1 April  (DPE) Estimated Resident Population for Urban Areas, at 30 June (1996+) (Annual-Jun)
We updated the urban areas in the series ‘Estimated resident population for urban areas, at 30 June (1996+) (Annual-Jun)’ to match those in the latest urban area classification.
A 2013 review of the urban area classification resulted in a change to 17 areas.
See Classification for urban area to see details of the changes.




March 2016
 31 March (LSS) Livestock Slaughtering Statistics data released for February 2016
Note: The data is provisional for 3 months from the time of its release.
 17 March (SNE) National Accounts - SNA 2008
We discontinued the Series, GDP(P), Chain volume, Actual, Total, Percentage change (Annual-Mar) (Disc Dec 2015) - SNEA.SG01RAC01B01PC from the December 2015 quarter.
This has been replaced by Series, GDP(P), Rolling annual, Chain volume, Actual, Total, Percentage change (Qrtly-Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec) - SNEQ.SG01RAC01B01AC.
 14 March (TPT) Release of transport vehicle registrations data: February 2016.
 14 March (DPE) Estimated Resident Population for Urban Areas, at 30 June (1996+) (Annual-Jun)
The series ‘Estimated resident population for urban areas, at 30 June (1996+) (Annual-Jun)’ has been taken down from Infoshare to be revised. This is to update the urban areas to match the latest reviewed classification.
The identifiers for the urban areas within the affected series are DPE.SFCA–DPE.SFHQ.
Seventeen areas in the urban area classification changed as a result of the review.
See the classification for urban area to see details of the changes.
Meanwhile, if you need information on population estimates for urban areas, please contact Demography@stats.govt.nz.
On 1 April 2016 this has been updated.
 7 March (WTS) Wholesale Trade Survey

The stock series for the other goods wholesaling industry was revised for the September and June 2015 quarters after we received more information from the businesses we surveyed.



We used the June 2015 quarter to link the new methodology data with the previous wholesale data. As a result, we have back-cast the level of the relevant series based on the new information, and maintained previously published percentage movements at the industry level.



The revision affected the following series:

Other goods wholesaling stocks – WTSQ.SFE9CA

Total wholesaling stocks – WTSQ.SFZ9CA.



See Wholesale Trade Survey: December 2015 for a table of the revision’s effect on the recent quarters.

 7 March (SSS) Selected Services Survey data released for December 2015 quarter
 1 March (OTV) Overseas Trade Indexes - Volumes and Values data released for the December 2015 quarter
We have updated the quarterly seasonally adjusted import volume percentage change series OTVQ.SIS2I91SPC, to correct errors identified after the figures were released on 1 March 2016.
 1 March (LSS) Livestock Slaughtering Statistics data released for January 2016
Note: The data is provisional for 3 months from the time of its release.


February 2016
 26 February  (ALC) Release of alcohol available for consumption data: December 2015 quarter and year.
 26 February   (PRP) - Primary Production: Poultry (Meat chicken - dressed weight and number, fresh or frozen) Release: December 2015 quarter and year - PRP+.SAAD*
 19 February

(BAS) Building Activity Survey

On 19 February 2016 we released 118 new time series on Infoshare. The methodology introduced in the December 2014 quarter for estimating the Value of building work put in place has allowed us to make this data available.
Building activity by region – 40 series:
• New and altered actual value of work on residential buildings for six regions. Values are currently published at New Zealand level.
• New and altered actual value of work on non-residential buildings for New Zealand and six regions.
• New and altered actual value of work on all buildings for New Zealand and six regions.
Building activity quality – 78 series:
• Three series for each of the new actual residential buildings and non-residential buildings value series – modelling error, modelled rate, and imputed rate.

Link to the details of the series identifiers

 18 February (SEP) Ready Mixed Concrete by region: December 2015 quarter (SEP+.SAF++)
 10 February  (ECT) Electronic Card Transactions

We revised data for the durables industry after recently being advised of some missing data. As we have not been able to source this data from our suppliers, we have used standard statistical techniques to impute for the missing information, and revised our time series. We will continue to impute for this data until a data supplier can be confirmed. This revision affects the following series for October, November, and December 2015 months:

S19 - Total values - Electronic card transactions A/S/T by division
RTS total industries, actual, monthly/quarterly
RTS core industries, actual, monthly/quarterly
Total, actual, monthly/quarterly
Credit, actual, monthly/quarterly

S1G - Values - Electronic card transactions A/S/T by industry group
Durables, actual, monthly/quarterly

S29 - Number of electronic card transactions A/S/T by division
RTS total industries, actual, monthly/quarterly
RTS core industries, actual, monthly/quarterly
Total, actual, monthly/quarterly
Credit, actual, monthly/quarterly

S4 - Electronic card transactions by mean and proportion
Mean transaction value, actual, monthly/quarterly
Credit card usage as a proportion of total ECT value, actual, monthly/quarterly
Debit card usage as a proportion of total ECT value, actual, monthly/quarterly

S19 - Totals - Electronic card transactions by division, percentage changes
RTS total industries, actual, monthly/quarterly
RTS core industries, actual, monthly/quarterly
Total, actual, monthly/quarterly
 10 February

 (LSS) Livestock Slaughtering Statistics data released for December 2015

We have updated the Livestock data, to correct errors that we identified after it was released on 2 February 2016.
 5 February  (TPT) Release of transport vehicle registrations data: January 2016.
 2 February  (LSS) Livestock Slaughtering Statistics data released for December 2015
Note: The data is provisional for 3 months from the time of its release.


January 2016
 28 January  The following Harmonised System 10-digit codes will be confidential for at least 24 months from December 2015 in accordance with the overseas trade confidentiality policy:

Imports (TIM) –
2523.29.00.00: Cement; portland, other than white, whether or not artificially coloured

For further information, please email overseastrade@stats.govt.nz
15 January  (CPI) Food Price Index for New Zealand, percentage change (Monthly).
The series CPIM.SE901PC “Percentage change from previous period” was published as 0.8 percent. This was actually -0.8 percent and has since been corrected on Infoshare.
15 January  (TPT) Release of transport vehicle registrations data: December 2015.

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