Productivity growth is important in improving a nation’s long-term material standard of living. It is a measure of how efficiently production inputs are being used to produce outputs.

Businesses in Christchurch showed a remarkable resilience in the face of earthquakes, aftershocks, and the emergence of an altered city in 2012.

New Zealand has converted its success in creating and producing world-class film content into a screen industry of substantial scale. Screen industry revenue powered beyond $3 billion in 2012 – for the first time in the survey’s seven-year history.

Nearly two years after the most devastating earthquake in Christchurch, both residents and businesses are moving forward. Building contractors in the last three months of 2012 used enough ready-mixed concrete in Canterbury to fill 68 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

An important shift in international tourism in New Zealand happened in 2012 when China became our second-largest source of visitor spending and visitor arrivals.

A collection of tables that provide a snapshot of business in 2012.