Stats NZ (Tatauranga Aotearoa)

Name: Stats NZ (Tatauranga Aotearoa)
Creator: Stats NZ
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Open · redistributedCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)Macroeconomics

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

1,320

Temporal coverage

1972-03-01 – 2024-12-01

Licensing & provenance

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Required attribution: Source: Stats NZ, licensed under CC BY 4.0
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.stats.govt.nz
Provider terms: https://www.stats.govt.nz/about-us/copyright/

How to cite

Stats NZ (Tatauranga Aotearoa). Retrieved from https://www.stats.govt.nz. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download stats_nz series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/stats_nz
Update cadence: quarterly
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: bulk snapshot if changed
Storage layout: single parquet (stats_nz.parquet, ~330KB), columns series_key(prefix:series_ref), obs_date(date32), value(float64). ~12 curated datasets (GDP, CPI, labour, BoP, PPI, retail, trade, building consents, migration, population).

Full description

Statistics New Zealand — national accounts, trade, population, labour. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Source: https://www.stats.govt.nz/large-datasets/csv-files-for-download/ No API key required (direct CSV/Excel download). Coverage: * GDP quarterly (expenditure, income, production approaches) * Balance of payments, trade in goods and services * Labour force survey (employment, unemployment, wages) * CPI components and sub-indices * Dwelling consents and sales * Population (national, sub-national) * Business financial statistics Run: python jobs/ingest_statsnz.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets