About Price Index News
This quarterly newsletter provides information about price index statistics. It includes updates on development projects, information on index sources and methods, links to papers, and closer analysis of specific areas of prices.
To view any of the latest eight issues of Price Index News, please click on the issue links above. Click on 'Previous issues' to access earlier issues.
There are four other links above, each leading to individual web pages containing links to previous articles that have appeared under the following headings:
- Short stories (analytical articles with a prices theme)
- Nuts and bolts (information on the data sources and methods used by Statistics NZ to prepare price indexes)
- Virtual papers (papers with a prices theme prepared by Statistics NZ or others)
- Working with others (articles and papers about Statistics NZ's prices-related work with others).
An additional web page – 'CPI sources and methods' – is linked from the 'Nuts and bolts' page above. ‘CPI sources and methods’ contains CPI nuts and bolts articles under headings based on the 11 CPI groups.
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