Labour cost index (LCI) salary and wage rates, which include overtime, increased 1.8 percent in the year to the December 2012 quarter, Statistics New Zealand said today.
Prices received by New Zealand producers, as measured by the output producers price index (PPI), fell 0.9 percent in the September 2012 quarter, Statistics New Zealand said today.
The price of purchasing new capital items rose 0.3 percent in the September 2012 quarter, compared with the June 2012 quarter, Statistics New Zealand said today.