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Change in CPI, 2000–2008

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This graph of the consumer price index (CPI) shows how much (in proportionate terms) the prices of goods and services bought by a typical New Zealand household increased in 2008 compared with the prices a decade previously. The CPI is issued by Statistics New Zealand each quarter of the year.

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Adolf Stroombergen, Prices and inflation – Prices and the consumer price index, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/23082/change-in-cpi-2000-2008 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Adolf Stroombergen, published 15 February 2010.