A change in methodology between 2016 and 2019 may affect data comparability over time.
Household spending on transport
Data owner: Statistics New Zealand.
Breakdown available: Expense types, households, household with a super annuitant and regions.
You will notice a large escalation in household spending from 2016 onwards. Please note, this is in part due to a change in methodology, whereby the survey was revised slightly.
Additional events that could have influenced the HES 2017/18 data include:
- increase in the adult minimum wage from $15.25 to $15.75 effective 1 April 2017 and further to $16.50 effective 1 April 2018.
- increase in the starting out and training wage from $12.20 to $12.60 effective 1 April 2017 and to $13.20 effective 1 April 2018.
- New Zealand Superannuation rate (gross) increasing for single living-alone from $450.10 to $463.04 on 01 April 2018; single sharing from $413.60 to $425.55 on 01 April 2018; and ‘both partners qualifying’ from $340.80 each to $350.76 on 01 April 2018.
- low OCR kept short-term mortgage rates down.
Further events that could have influenced the HES 2018/19 data include:
- increase in the adult minimum wage from $15.75 to $16.50 effective 1 April 2018 and further to $17.70 effective 1 April 2019.
- increase in the starting out and training wage from $12.60 to $13.20 effective 1 April 2018 and to $14.16 effective 1 April 2019.
- New Zealand Superannuation rate (gross) increasing for single living-alone from $463.04 to $475.42 on 01 April 2019; single sharing from $425.55 to $437.14 on 01 April 2019; and ‘both partners qualifying’ from $350.76 each to $360.42 on 01 April 2019.
- Introduction of the families package in the 2018 budget which introduced the Winter Energy Payment and Best Start tax credit and made changes to Accommodation Supplement and Working for Families tax credits.