Selected price indexes (SPI) provide monthly price changes for a selection of goods and services that New Zealand households purchase.
Key facts
The following table sets out the key percentage changes in monthly and annual prices. We compare March 2025 with February 2025 for the monthly percentage change, and March 2025 with March 2024 for the annual percentage change.
Group, subgroup, class, item, or selected section |
Monthly percentage change |
Annual percentage change |
Food group |
0.5 |
3.5 |
Fruit and vegetables |
-0.3 |
-2.7 |
Meat, poultry, and fish |
0.1 |
5.3 |
Grocery food |
0.9 |
5.1 |
Non-alcoholic beverages |
1.1 |
5.0 |
Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food |
0.1 |
2.3 |
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco group |
0.1 |
3.1 |
Alcoholic beverages |
0.2 |
2.1 |
Cigarettes and tobacco |
-0.1 |
5.0 |
Housing and household utilities group |
... |
... |
Stock measure of rental property |
0.3 |
3.3 |
Flow measure of rental property |
.. |
.. |
Transport group |
... |
... |
Petrol |
-2.1 |
-6.2 |
Diesel |
-2.3 |
-10.6 |
Domestic air transport |
2.2 |
1.1 |
International air transport |
-4.0 |
-4.8 |
Recreation and culture group |
... |
... |
Domestic accommodation |
-2.9 |
-15.1 |
International accommodation |
8.8 |
9.9 |
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Update on rental data
This release includes actual rentals for housing data for February 2025 and March 2025.
The dataset used to compile this information has been updated, and we are confident the measure will meet customer expectations.
More data
Use Infoshare to access time-series data. For this release, select the following categories:
Subject category: Economic indicators
Group: Consumers price index - CPI
Definitions and metadata
Selected price indexes - DataInfo+ gives general methodology used to produce the selected price indexes and related metadata.
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Next release
Selected price indexes: April 2025 will be released on 15 May 2025.
