Source: Statistics New Zealand
National accounts (income, saving, assets, and liabilities): June 2026 quarter – information release
8 October 2026
We have developed experimental quarterly estimates for institutional sector accounts and balance sheets, to provide more timely data on New Zealand’s economy. We have published these experimental estimates on a quarterly basis since the first release
for the March 2021 quarter.
Key facts
Quarterly income and outlay accounts
In the June 2026 quarter, compared with the March 2026 quarter (in seasonally adjusted terms):
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- household saving decreased $117 million to $2.5 billion
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- household net disposable income rose 0.7 percent ($436 million):
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- compensation of employees rose 1.0 percent ($515 million)
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- social assistance benefits in cash rose 1.2 percent ($145 million)
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- income of self-employed businesses (entrepreneurial income) received by households rose 1.9 percent ($245 million)
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- dividends received by households increased 43.3 percent ($646 million)
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- income tax paid by households increased 5.9 percent (up $942 million)
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- household net disposable income rose 0.7 percent ($436 million):
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- household final consumption expenditure rose 0.9 percent ($553 million)
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- financial business enterprises saving decreased $672 million to -$1.1 billion
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- central government saving increased from -$2.6 billion to -$778 million.
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