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Household Economic Survey: Year ended 30 June 2007


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Highlights


  • Average weekly household net expenditure was $956 in 2006/07.
  • The three largest components of total household expenditure were housing and household utilities (23 percent), food (16 percent) and transport (14 percent).
  • Households in Wellington region had the highest expenditure on recreation and culture ($120).
 
  • Average annual household income was $67,973 in 2006/07, up 10.2 percent from 2003/04.
  • Seventy-five percent of all households were satisfied or very satisfied with their material standard of living.
  • One-fifth of all households had more than one type of computer (desktop, laptop or hand-held).

 



Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician
30 November 2007
ISSN 1178-0479

There is a companion Media Release published – Household Economic Survey: Year ended 30 June 2007.

 



  Household Economic Survey: Year ended June 30 2007 (pdf)



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