Retail trade

Retail trade statistics measure the sales of a wide range of businesses that provide household and personal goods and services. Retailers include supermarkets, bookshops, restaurants, hotels, motels, and motor vehicles. Statistics show quarterly sales of goods and services, by storetype and region.

Information releases

• Retail Trade Survey
  Released quarterly, this information release contains statistics on the retail sales by storetype and region; retail stocks by storetype; and retail sales deflators by storetype.
• Christchurch Retail Trade Indicator
  Released quarterly, this information release contains statistics on retail activity in Christchurch.

Related releases

• Electronic Card Transactions 
  Released monthly, this information release measures the number and value of electronic card transactions (including debit, eftpos, credit, and charge cards) with New Zealand-based merchants.

Data

• Infoshare
  Time-series data is available on Infoshare under the category 'Industry sectors' for the following groups:
  • 'Retail Trade (ANZSIND96)'
  • 'Christchurch Retail Trade Indicator'

Reports and articles

• Impact of the 22 February 2011 earthquake on the Retail Trade Survey
  An explanation of the impact of the 2011 earthquake on the Retail Trade Survey and what has been done to account for this in the survey.
• Implementing ANZSIC 2006 in the Retail Trade Survey: Revised 
  A report providing additional detail on the use of a new industrial classification for an important Statistics New Zealand economic survey.
• Retail trade survey methodology
  A report detailing the change of methodology used to calculate seasonally adjusted and trend series at September 1995 prices.

Information about data

• Information about the Retail Trade Survey
• Information for survey respondents

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