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New Zealand Income Survey: June 2007 quarter


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Highlights


Average weekly income from all sources for the 2007 June quarter:

  • was $667, up 9.4 percent from the June 2006 quarter.
  • was up 10.4 percent for males (to $832) and up 7.8 percent for females (to $510), from the June 2006 quarter.
  • rose by 22.4 percent for the 60- to 64-year-old age group, while the 20- to 24-year-old age group decreased by 2.7 percent.
  • Thirty-eight percent of people received investment income, the highest proportion of any June quarter between 2002 and 2007.
  • For those receiving investment income, the average weekly income from investment was $137, up 29.1 percent from the previous quarter.

 

 


Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician
4 October 2007
ISSN 1178-0614


There is a companion Media Release published  – New Zealand Income Survey: June 2007 quarter.

 

 



  New Zealand Income Survey: June 2007 quarter (pdf)



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