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 October 2025 with September 2025 for the monthly percentage change, and October 2025 with October 2024 for the annual percentage change.
Group, subgroup, class, item, or selected section |
Monthly percentage change |
Annual percentage change |
Food group |
-0.3 |
4.7 |
Fruit and vegetables |
-4.4 |
5.4 |
Meat, poultry, and fish |
0.9 |
7.6 |
Grocery food |
0.1 |
4.9 |
Non-alcoholic beverages |
0.4 |
5.2 |
Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food |
0.0 |
2.4 |
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco group |
0.2 |
2.2 |
Alcoholic beverages |
-0.3 |
0.4 |
Cigarettes and tobacco |
1.3 |
5.4 |
Housing and household utilities group |
... |
... |
Stock measure of rental property |
0.0 |
1.6 |
Flow measure of rental property |
.. |
.. |
Electricity |
0.5 |
11.8 |
Gas |
1.9 |
14.4 |
Transport group |
... |
... |
Petrol |
0.8 |
2.6 |
Diesel |
1.1 |
5.1 |
Domestic air transport |
-10.6 |
-11.0 |
International air transport |
-6.3 |
0.7 |
Recreation and culture group |
... |
... |
Domestic accommodation |
2.7 |
-1.1 |
International accommodation |
5.4 |
4.4 |
Symbols: .. figure not available ... not applicable * Annual percentage movement taken from the October 2025 monthly index compared with the October 2024 quarterly collection. Source: Stats NZ |
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Additional imputation
In the November 2025 month we have imputed a higher than usual proportion of data collected in stores. This month approximately 25 percent of prices collected in store were imputed, compared with less than 5 percent in a typical month.
The imputation method (overall mean imputation) means that within the lowest-level sub-item index, missing prices are imputed with the average movement from the other collected prices in that category. This method ensures that we capture an appropriate price change for the missing items, and we are confident in the robustness of this method. Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food, alcohol, and meat prices were mainly impacted by this imputation.
This was due to a one-off system issue, and we expect this to be resolved for the Selected price indexes: November 2025 release, which will be published on 16 December 2025.
Update on flow of rental properties measures
Selected price indexes: November 2025 to be released on 16 December 2025 will include the flow of rental properties measures (national and regional).
This data has not been included since November 2024 as work was needed to integrate the data to meet customer expectations, following an update to the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment's tenancy bond-lodgement system.
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.
Technical enquiries
Brugha Fitzpatrick
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04 931 4600
ISSN 3021-145X
Next release
Selected price indexes: November 2025 will be released on 16 December 2025.
