Kiwi stats is where you will find New Zealand statistics with a difference. Most statistics in new zealand are in a pretty formal format. Our blog isn’t formal, although it is categorised.
We will link you to sites and places to find New Zealand facts and New Zealand information. Our main difference is when we provide you facts about New Zealand we will endeavour to include some of the stranger and even funny facts about New Zealand.
If you are like us when we first went to Statistics New Zealand we found it quite confusing so we will do our best to help you if you need to head there. Statistics are forever changing so links to specialist sites help to keep our information up-to-date.
There really are some very strange and even funny facts about New Zealand. Bookmark Kiwistats.com now and you will learn while you get a few laughs!
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New Zealand Home Injury Statistics
This New Zealand home injury presentation will surprise you. Did you know…
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Can anyone tell me any funny laws or facts on New Zealand. It would be a great help, thanks?
Its for a project but ANYTHING is suitable
A New Zealander, Richard Pearce got a heavier-than-air machine into the air 14 months and another 9 months before Wilbur and Orville did. But being a friendly and polite NZer (as we all are) he allowed the Wright Brothers to take the fame because, he said that they were capable of controlling their plane, and he could not control his in the air. He crashed every time. So he forfeited the kudos.
His 3rd plane is at Motat (Museum of Transport and Technology) in Auckland. The flaps on the wings that he invented are still the basic design for what is used today. His mistake was that he fitted them to the leading edge, rather than the trailing edge of the wing.
It is illegal to wander the streets at night with your face blackened, and it is lawful to take a leak in the street provided that you maintain one hand on the rump of the horse while you leak, and you aim for the ground where the horse would leak onto. (Police Offences Act 1906)
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New Zealand Consumer Behaviour
Chris Pescott, the Managing Director of Perceptive is interviewed on TVNZ news, May 18th 2009.
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New Zealand Wine Export Statistics
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New Zealand All Whites Soccer
Follow New Zealand’s possession over time throughout the entire 90 mins. Watch the heat map change and grow as New Zealand attempt to pull the game back in the second half.
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Consumer price inflation
Higher petrol and grocery prices helped push annual consumer price inflation up to 3.4% in the March quarter, data from Statistics New Zealand shows. Inflation in the March quarter from the December quarter of 0.7% was in line with market economist expectations.
The New Zealand dollar dipped shortly after the news as the figure was less than some traders had priced in, leading them to believe that an official interest rate cut is slightly more likely. However, these figures are unlikely to change the Reserve Bank’s current view that the official interest rate needs to remain on hold at 8.25% because inflation is forecast to remain above the bank’s 1-3% target band in the next year or two as the government introduces a carbon emissions trading scheme and cuts personal taxes.
The figures paint a picture of an economy grinding along under the weight of higher oil and food prices linked to the global boom in commodity prices, but they also show domestically sourced inflation from government fees and charges, housing costs and rents is boosting the inflation outlook. Lower prices for imported electronics and lower international travel costs almost completely offset the increase in petrol and imported food costs, meaning tradeables inflation in the quarter was just 0.2% and tradeables inflation for the year was 3.4%.
Non-tradeables inflation, which includes building costs, local services costs and government charges costs, rose 1.1% in the quarter and was up 3.5% for the year. Total inflation for the year of 3.4% was up from 3.2% in the December quarter and the second highest since inflation blipped up to 4% in mid 2006.
Big movers in the quarter included;
* Grocery food costs, which rose 3.6% in the quarter and are up 8.7% for the year,
* Non alcoholic beverages such as coffee and water, which rose 3.3% for the quarter and are up 4.9% for the year,
* Cigarettes and tobacco, which rose 3.4% for the quarter and are up 3.7% for the year,
* Footwear costs, which fell 1.8% and are down 1.2% for the year,
* Rentals, which rose 1.2% for the quarter and are up 3% for the year,
* Property rates, which are up 0.2% in the quarter and are up 7.1% for the year,
* Package holiday costs, which fell 5.2% in the quarter and are up just 1.3% for the year,
* Audio visual equipment and computers, which fell 3.6% for the quarter and are down 15% for the year, Central and local government charges rose 0.9% for the quarter and are up 2.5% from a year ago.
Early childhood education costs have fallen 34.7% from a year ago, largely due to the introduction of 20 hours of free child care a week.
Although primary and secondary eduction costs rose 5.7% for the quarter and are up 5.7% for the year.
Elsewhere, food price inflation data for March shows prices rose 0.7% in March and are up 6% from a year ago.
Vegetable prices rose 7%, in large part due to a 79.9% increase in the price of tomatoes. http://www.interest.co.nz
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Cricket – India vs New Zealand
Sachin hits first test century in New Zealand and see his record stats
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