Business activity statistics provide information on industries that process, manufacture, or deliver services. This includes data about New Zealand's accommodation, construction, retail and wholesale trade, manufacturing, forestry, and agricultural sectors.
Listed below are the titles of tables found previously in chapter 8 of the Key Statistics publication. Below the list is an outline of where you can find this data now. Further help is available from our Information Centre.
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Establishments, capacity, guest nights, occupancy rate, and average stay, by accommodation type |
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Building consents summary |
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Building consents issued, new buildings by regional council area |
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Value of building work put in place, by building type |
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Value of building work put in place, by statistical area |
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Value of building work put in place, by sector of ownership |
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Retail trade, value of stocks by industry |
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Wholesale trade sales and stocks |
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All manufacturing, ANZSIC division C |
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Timber and forestry products |
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Poultry production |
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Area of crops |
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Livestock numbers |
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Livestock slaughtering |
Table 1 Establishments, capacity, guest nights, occupancy rate, and average stay, by accommodation type
You can find this information in Infoshare. Choose the Subject category: Tourism, then choose Accommodation Survey ACS, and the table Actual by Accommodation by Type by Variable (Monthly).
Select the following variables:
- 'Select all' in Accommodation Survey Actual by Accommodation Type 2009
- 'Select all' in Observations
- And the time periods you want.
Click the 'Go' button.
For other relevant information see the Accommodation Survey information release page.top
Table 2 Building consents summary
For this table, see the Building Consents Issued information release page. Go to the most recent release and see table 1 in the Excel file.
Table 3 Building consents issued, new buildings by regional council area
You can find this information in Infoshare. Choose the Subject category: Industry sectors, then choose BLD – Building Consents, and the table Number, value and floor area by building type, nature and region (Monthly).
Hold down the control key and select these variables:
- 'Dwellings, 'Total non-residential buildings', and 'All buildings' in Building Type Complete
- 'New' in Building Nature
- 'Select all' in Region 1988
- 'Select all' in Observations
- And the time periods you want.
Click the 'Go' button.
For other relevant information see the Building Consents Issued information release page.
Table 4 Value of building work put in place, by building type
You can find this information in Infoshare. Choose the Subject category: Industry sectors, then choose BAS – Building Activity Survey, and the table Value by building type (Qrtly-Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec).
Select the following variables:
- 'Select all' in Activity by QBAS Building Type
- And the time periods you want.
Click the 'Go' button.
For other relevant information see the Value of Building Work Put in Place information release page.
Table 5 Value of building work put in place, by statistical area
You can find this information in Infoshare. Choose the Subject category: Industry sectors, then choose BAS – Building Activity Survey, and the table Value by statistical area grouping (Qrtly-Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec).
Select the following variables:
- 'Select all' in Regional Groupings
- And the time periods you want.
Click the 'Go' button.
For other relevant information see the Value of Building Work Put in Place information release page.
Table 6 Value of building work put in place, by sector of ownership
You can find this information in Infoshare. Choose the Subject category: Industry sectors, then choose BAS – Building Activity Survey, and the table Value by institutional sector (Qrtly-Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec).
Select the following variables:
- 'Select all' in Activity by Sector
- And the time periods you want.
Click the 'Go' button.
For other relevant information see the Value of Building Work Put in Place information release page.
Table 7 Retail trade, value of stocks by industry
You can find this information in Infoshare. Choose the Subject category: Industry sectors, then choose Retail Trade (ANZSIC06) – RTT, and the table Stocks by industry in current prices (Qrtly-Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec).
Select the following variables:
- 'Actual' in Actual/Seasonally adjusted/Trend
- 'Select all' in Industry
- 'Current' in Current/Deflated, March 2010 Prices
- And the time periods you want.
Click the 'Go' button.
For other relevant information see the Retail Trade Survey information release page.
Table 8 Wholesale trade sales and stocks
You can find this information in Infoshare. Choose the Subject category: Industry sectors, then choose Wholesale trade survey – WTS > ANZSIC96 WTS – Actuals, and the table ANZIND (Qrtly-Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec).
Hold down the control key and select these variables:
- 'Select All' in Wholesale Trade – ANZIND Published Industries.
- 'Operating income' and 'Total stocks' in Wholesale Trade Published Variables.
- And the time periods you want.
Click the 'Go' button.
For other relevant information see the Wholesale Trade Survey information release page.top
Table 9 All manufacturing, ANZSIC division C
For this table, see the Economic Survey of Manufacturing information release page. Go to the most recent release and see table 1 in the Excel file.
Table 10 Timber and forestry products
This information is provided by the Ministry for Primary Industries. On their website the data is split across four Excel sheets. It can be accessed from the Forestry Production and Trade Publications webpage; under the time period you require, select 'Download accompanying tables as an Excel file'.
- Sheet 1 shows quarterly 'Sawn timber production'
- Sheet 2 shows quarterly and annual 'Production of pulp'
- Sheet 3 shows quarterly 'Production of paper and paperboard'
- Sheet 4 shows 'Production of panel products' – including fibreboard, particleboard, and plywood.
Please note: This information is also available from Infoshare – under the subject category Industry sectors, choose Forestry Logging and Timber Production – FLT.
For related information see the Agricultural Production statistics information release page, or Agriculture, horticulture, and forestry landing page.top
Table 11 Poultry production
You can find this information in Infoshare. Choose the Subject category: Industry sectors, then choose Primary production – PRP.
For annual poultry production data see the table Processed Food – Poultry – Dressed Weight (Annual).
Hold down the control key and select these variables:
- 'Meat Chicken – Fresh', 'Meat Chicken – Frozen', and 'Meat Chicken – Total' in Poultry, Fresh and Frozen – Dressed Weight
- And the time periods you want.
Click the 'Go' button.
For quarterly poultry production data see the table Processed Food - Poultry - Dressed Weight (Qrtly).
Hold down the control key and select these variables:
- 'Meat Chicken – Fresh', 'Meat Chicken – Frozen', and 'Meat Chicken – Total' in Poultry, Fresh and Frozen – Dressed Weight
- And the time periods you want.
Click the 'Go' button.
For poultry production numbers, select Number rather than Dressed Weight in Infoshare.
For other relevant information see the Economic Survey of Manufacturing information release page. top
Table 12 Area of crops
You can find this information in Infoshare. Choose the Subject category: Industry sectors, then choose Agriculture, and the table Variable by Total New Zealand (Annual-Jun).
Hold down the control key and select these variables:
- 'Total New Zealand' in Total New Zealand
- 'Area harvested, Wheat, in hectares' and 'Area harvested, Barley, in hectares' in Observations
- And the time periods you want.
Click the 'Go' button.
For other relevant information see the Agricultural Production Statistics information release page.
Table 13 Livestock numbers
You can find this information in Infoshare. Choose the Subject category: Industry sectors, then choose Agriculture, and the table Variable by Total New Zealand (Annual-Jun).
Hold down the control key and select these variables:
- 'Total New Zealand' in Total New Zealand
- 'Dairy Cows and Heifers, in Milk or Calf' in Observations
- 'Total Dairy Cattle (including Bobby Calves)' in Observations
- 'Beef cows and heifers (in calf) 2 yrs and over' in Observations
- 'Beef cows and heifers (in calf) 1-2 yrs old' in Observations
- 'Total Beef' in Observations
- 'Total Pigs' in Observations
- 'Total Deer' in Observations
- 'Total Goats' in Observations
- 'Breeding Ewes 2 Tooth and Over put to Ram' in Observations
- 'Total Sheep' in Observations
- 'Total Lambs Marked and/or Tailed' in Observations.
- And the time periods you want.
Click the 'Go' button.
For other relevant information see the Agricultural Production Survey information release page.top
Table 14 Livestock slaughtering
You can find this information in Infoshare. Choose the Subject category: Industry sectors, then choose Livestock slaughtering – LSS.
For quarterly livestock slaughtering data, see the table Total New Zealand by kill by animal type (Qrtly-Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec).
Hold down the control key and select these variables:
- 'Total New Zealand' in Regional Councils
- 'Total kill' in Kill type
- 'Calves and vealers', 'Total Adult Cattle', 'Total Pigs', 'Total Adult Sheep', and 'Total Lambs' in Animal Type
- Number in Observations
- And the time periods you want.
Click the 'Go' button.
For annual livestock slaughtering data see the table Total New Zealand by kill by animal type (Annual).
Hold down the control key and select these variables:
- 'Total New Zealand' in Regional Councils
- 'Total kill' in Kill type
- 'Calves and vealers', 'Total Adult Cattle', 'Total Pigs', 'Total Adult Sheep', and 'Total Lambs' in Animal Type
- 'Number' in Observations
- And the time periods you want.
Click the 'Go' button.
For other information about manufacturing see the Economic Survey of Manufacturing information release page.
For information about agriculture, see the Agricultural Production Survey information release page. Information about livestock slaughtering is collected by the Ministry for Primary Industries.