This incomes analysis is based on data from Statistics New Zealand’s Household Economic Survey (HES). It provides an update of the low-incomes and inequality indicators to be used in The Social Report 2005 using data from the HES for the year ended 30 June 2004. It also provides commentary and contextual information to assist with better understanding the indicators and the trend figures they produce.
Further incomes analysis is underway, with release planned for later in 2005.