Increasing prices continued to affect all household groups in the 12 months to December 2022, Stats NZ said today.

The cost of living for the average household (as measured by the household living-costs price indexes) increased by 8.2 percent in the 12 months to December 2022.

Inflation experienced from the December 2021 quarter to the December 2022 quarter:
 

• all households was 8.2 percent
• beneficiary was 6.9 percent
• Māori was 8.1 percent
• superannuitant was 7.4 percent
• highest-spending households was 9.4 percent
• lowest-spending households was 7.1 percent.

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