Household living-costs price indexes: update
8 July 2025
A solution has been identified to update expenditure weights for the household living-costs price indexes.
In May 2025, Stats NZ paused the household living-costs price indexes (HLPI) March 2025 quarter release, due to technical challenges in updating weights after the consumers price index review.
While we implement the solution to update the weights, we will pause the HLPI June 2025 quarter release, currently scheduled for 28 July 2025.
We apologise for any inconvenience this causes.
We will resume the HLPIs in the September 2025 quarter, scheduled for release on 28 October 2025. Data for the March 2025 and June 2025 quarters will be included in this release.
The HLPI review methodology paper and tables will be published on 21 October 2025.
The HLPI is used as an input for one of the measures of child poverty statistics and this update means this will be available in time to support the delivery of our child poverty statistics.
Note, this pause does not have any impact on the quarterly consumers price index.
