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How spending changes: 40 years of Household Economic Survey
Infographic shows how our spending has changed: 40 years of the Household Economic Survey
28 November 2013
It is the 40th Anniversary of the Household Economic Survey, which has been measuring how the spending habits of New Zealanders have changed since 1973.
To celebrate this 40-year milestone, we have produced an infographic that compares New Zealanders’ expenditure 40 years ago with our expenditure results released today.
See Household spending compared with 40 years ago – infographic.
Some interesting spending
facts show that today Kiwi households spend over twice as
much of their total expenditure on rent, compared with 40
years ago. 40 years ago, Kiwi households spent:
• over
three times as much of their total expenditure on clothing
and footwear than we do today
• almost a third more of
their total expenditure on fruit and vegetables and over
twice as much of their total expenditure on meat, fish, and
poultry, than we do today
• over twice as much of their
total expenditure on cigarettes and tobacco, than we do
today
• a fifth more of their total expenditure on
alcohol 40 years ago, than we do today
We would like to thank all our interviewers and respondents who have taken part in the Household Economic Survey over the last 40 years.
See Household Economic Survey: 2013 for more information from the 2013 survey results.
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