Source: Statistics New Zealand
National accounts (income, saving, assets, and liabilities): March 2026 quarter – information release
2 July 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 March 2026 quarter, compared with the December 2025 quarter (in seasonally adjusted terms):
- household saving increased $610 million to $2.2 billion
- household net disposable income rose 2.1 percent ($1.4 billion):
- compensation of employees rose 1.2 percent ($595 million)
- income tax paid by households fell 2.3 percent ($370 million)
- income of self-employed businesses (entrepreneurial income) received by households rose 2.8 percent ($337 million)
- social assistance benefits in cash rose 1.2 percent ($146 million)
- interest received by households fell 6.8 percent ($197 million)
- household final consumption expenditure rose 1.2 percent ($742 million)
- non-financial business enterprises saving fell $275 million to $6.0 billion
- central government saving fell $717 million to -$2.4 billion
- interest received by financial business enterprises fell 1.3 percent ($124 million)
- interest paid by financial business enterprises fell 3.2 percent ($323 million).
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