Price Index News: Nuts and bolts

2012

• Newspapers, books, and stationery in the CPI (January 2012)
  Sources and methods used to compile the newspapers, books, and stationery subgroup of the CPI.

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2011

• Accommodation services and package holidays in the CPI (October 2011) 
  Sources and methods used to compile the accommodation services and the package holidays CPI subgroups.
  
  
• Real estate and professional services in the CPI (October 2011) 
  Sources and methods used to compile the real estate services and the professional services CPI classes.
  
  
• Audio-visual and computing equipment in the consumers price index (July 2011) 
  Sources and methods used to compile the audio-visual and computing equipment subgroup of the CPI.
  
  
• Updating the CPI used cars index hedonic model (July 2011) 
  An improved hedonic formulation will be implemented in the June 2011 quarter.
  
  
• Health in the consumers price index (April 2011) 
  Sources and methods used to compile the health group of the CPI.
  
  
• Updating the CPI used cars index hedonic model (April 2011) 
  An improved hedonic formulation will be implemented in the June 2011 quarter.
  
  
• Household contents and services in the consumers price index (January 2011) 
  Sources and methods used to compile the household contents and services group of the CPI.
  
  
• Property rates and related services in the consumers price index (January 2011) 
  Sources and methods used to compile the property rates and related services subgroup of the CPI.
  
  
• Overseas trade in services price index weights (January 2011) 
  Changes from 2009 to 2010 in the relative importance of different types of services that are exported or imported.

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2010

• Clothing and footwear in the consumers price index (October 2010) 
  Sources and methods used to compile the clothing and footwear group of the CPI.
  
  
• Early childhood education in the consumers price index (July 2010) 
  Sources and methods used to compile the early childhood education class of the CPI.
  
  
• Primary and secondary, tertiary and other post-school education in the consumers price index (July 2010)
  Sources and methods used to compile the 'primary and secondary education', 'tertiary and other post-school education', and 'other education' classes of the CPI.
  
  
• Alcoholic beverages and tobacco in the consumers price index (July 2010)
  Sources and methods used to compile the alcoholic beverages and tobacco group of the CPI.
  
  
• Property maintenance in the consumers price index (April 2010)
  Sources and methods used to compile the property maintenance subgroup of the CPI.

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2009

• Domestic and international air transport in the consumers price index (October 2009)
  Sources and methods used to compile the domestic and international air transport classes of the CPI. 
  
  
• Treatment of exchange rates in the overseas trade and producers price indexes (April 2009)
  A decline in the value of the New Zealand dollar has an upward influence on both export and import prices.
  
  
• The consumers price index basket (January 2009)
  The types of goods and services in the 2008 CPI basket.
  
  
• Reweighting the labour cost index (salary and wage rates) (January 2009) 
  Information about the 2008 review.

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2008

• Vehicle fuels and lubricants in the consumers price index (September 2008)
  How the 'petrol' class and the 'other vehicle fuels and lubricants' class of the CPI are compiled.
  
  
• The food price index basket (September 2008)
  The types of food items in the 2008 FPI basket.
  
  
• International practices for business price index publication of results (July 2008) 
  New Zealand practice is compared with five other countries.
  
  
• Food prices in the consumers price index and food price index (July 2008)
  Sources and methods used to compile the CPI food group.
  
  
• A comparison between the adjusted and unadjusted labour cost index (July 2008)
  Differences between the two wage index measures.
  
  
• International practices for business price index calculation (April 2008) 
  New Zealand practice is compared with five other countries.
  
  
• Insurance services in the consumers price index (April 2008)
  Sources and methods used to compile insurance services in the CPI.
  
  
• The consumers price index basket (April 2008)
  The types of goods and services in the 2006 CPI basket.
  
  
• Rented dwellings in the consumers price index (April 2008)
  Sources and methods used to compile rentals for housing in the CPI.
  
  
• International practices for business price index data processing and validation (January 2008)
  New Zealand practice is compared with five other countries.
  
  
• Home ownership in the CPI (January 2008)
  Sources and methods used to measure home ownership costs in the CPI.
  
  
• The food price index basket (January 2008)
  The types of food items in the 2006 FPI basket.
  
  
• Purchasing power parities (January 2008)
  How PPPs are calculated and used.
  
  
• Telecommunication equipment and services in the consumers price index (January 2008)
  Sources and methods used to compile the telecommunication equipment class and the telecommunication services class of the CPI.

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2007

• International practices for business price index price collection (October 2007)
  New Zealand practice is compared with five other countries.
  
  
• Redevelopment of the education-related travel price indexes (October 2007)
  Information about the redevelopment including concepts, sources, and methods.
  
  
• Local authority rates in the consumers price index (October 2007)
  Sources and methods used to compile local authority rates in the CPI.
  
  
• How new car price changes are measured in the CPI (October 2007)
  Sources and methods used to compile new car prices in the CPI.
  
  
• Transition across reweights for trimmed means and weighted percentiles (July 2007)
  Explanation of the issue and how the annual series will be presented on an ongoing basis.
  
  
• Change in construction processes (July 2007)
  PPI review reflects greater use of subcontractors.
  
  
• Redevelopment of the sea freight services price indexes (July 2007)
  Information about the redevelopment including concepts, sources, and methods.
  
  
• International practices for business price index sample selection (July 2007)
  New Zealand practice is compared with five other countries.
  
  
• How used-car price changes are measured in the consumers price index (July 2007)
  Sources and methods, including use of hedonic regression.
  
  
• Consumers price index retail outlet sample review (April 2007)
  More than 800 new retail outlets were added to the sample as part of the 2006 CPI review.
  
  
• How electricity price changes are measured in the consumers price index (April 2007)
  Sources and methods used to compile electricity prices in the CPI.
  
  
  

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