National accounts

Statistics about national accounts provide annual information on a range of economic aggregates such as gross domestic product, capital formation, and government and private consumption.

For quarterly data, see the Gross domestic product landing page.

Information releases

• National Accounts
  This annual release provides information on economic activities such as the production of goods and services and the costs involved in producing them, the incomes earned by various groups within the economy and what they do with them, and the economic relationship with the rest of the world.
• Institutional Sector Accounts
  This annual release provides production, income and outlay, and capital accounts for the six sectors that together form the institutional sector accounts. These six sectors are: non-financial corporations, financial corporations, government, non-profit institutions serving households, households, and the rest of the world.

Data

• Infoshare
  Time series data can be found on Infoshare in the category 'Economic indicators' then the group 'National Accounts – SNA 1993'.
• Long-term data series
  The long-term data series have been collected by staff at Treasury to provide a general reference source of information on demographic, social, and economic trends in New Zealand.
• Supply and use tables
  The supply and use tables record how supplies of different kinds of goods and services originate from domestic industries and imports and how those supplies are allocated between various intermediate and/or final uses, including exports.

Reports and articles

• Implementing ANZSIC 2006 in national accounts and productivity statistics
  This paper provides an update of changes to the national accounts and productivity statistics as a new industrial classification is introduced.
• Improvements to Annual National Accounts
  Statistics New Zealand is introducing a number of improvements into the annual national accounts as part of an ongoing programme of reviewing and updating methodology and data sources.
• Implementing ANZSIC 2006 in the National Accounts
  This report details how Statistics New Zealand is implementing the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) 2006 into all industry based statistics.
• Quarterly Gross Domestic Product Sources and Methods
  This report from 2008 provides the sources and methods used for all quarterly GDP series produced by Statistics New Zealand, both in chain-volume measures and current prices.
• Measuring Saving in the National Accounts
  This report from 2007 outlines how saving is derived in the current national accounts and the relationships between national saving, sector saving, net wealth, investment, and the current account balance with the rest of the world.
• Measuring Capital Stock in the New Zealand Economy
  This report explains the concepts and methodology for developing the two measures of capital stock and the corresponding consumption of fixed capital.

Information about data

• Information about National Accounts
• Additional information about National Accounts and Gross Domestic Product

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