A correction has been made to some of the series published in Gross Domestic Product: December 2008 quarter, released on 27 March 2009. The corrections do not affect any gross domestic product (GDP) series or any numbers quoted in the media release.
However, the corrections do affect unadjusted expenditure on gross domestic product (GDE) series, in both current prices and chain-volume series.
The corrections affect some series in 7 of the 22 main tables published with the Hot Off the Press:
- Table 1.3
- Table 3.4 and the corresponding percentage change table 3.5
- Table 4.2
- Table 5.3
The only seasonally adjusted series affected is real gross national disposable income RGNDI:
- Table 6.1 and the corresponding percentage change table 6.2
The corrected tables have been republished to the website. Infoshare will be updated with the corrected numbers at 10.45am 18 April 2009.
A summarised table of the previously released data and the corrected data is available in this Hot Off The Press.
Statistics New Zealand regrets any inconvenience caused by these errors.