Electronic Card Transactions: June 2016 Embargoed until 10:45am – 11 July 2016 Key facts Changes in the seasonally adjusted value of transactions for June 2016 (compared with May 2016) were:    Total electronic card transactions rose 1.0 percent. Transactions in the retail industries rose 1.2 percent. Transactions in the core retail industries rose 1.0 percent. Liz MacPherson, Government Statistician ISSN 1178-0258 11 July 2016 Commentary All figures are seasonally adjusted unless otherwise specified. Values are only available at the national level, and are not adjusted for price changes. The value of electronic card spending in the retail industries was up 1.2 percent in June 2016, following a 0.3 percent fall in May 2016. All six retail industries had increases in June 2016, the first time since March 2015. The biggest increase was from the durables industry, up $17 million (1.4 percent); closely followed by the fuel industry, up $16 million (2.8 percent). The total value of electronic card spending, including the two non-retail industries (non-retail excluding services and services), was up 1.0 percent in June. This follows a fall of 0.6 percent in May 2016. The two non-retailing industries were also up for June 2016. The non-retail (excluding services) industry was up $5.9 million (0.4 percent) and the services industry was up $1.4 million (0.6 percent). Core retail spending (which excludes the vehicle-related industries) rose 1.0 percent in June 2016, after no change in May. 2 Trends for the total, retail, and core retail series have generally been rising since these series began in October 2002. In actual terms, card-holders made 128 million transactions across all industries in June 2016, with an average value of $49. The total amount spent across all transactions was $6.3 billion. For more detailed data see the Excel tables in the 'Downloads' box. Imputation of missing data As outlined in Electronic Card Transactions: January 2016, Statistics NZ has imputed for some missing data for the durables industry. As we are still unable to source this missing data, we will continue to impute for this data until a supplier is confirmed. 3 Related links Next release Electronic Card Transactions: July 2016 will be released on 9 August 2016. Subscribe to information releases, including this one, by completing the online subscription form. The release calendar lists all information releases by date of release. Past releases Electronic Card Transactions has links to past releases. Data quality Electronic Card Transactions data collection methodology – DataInfo+ General methodology used to produce electronic card transaction statistics. Electronic Card Transactions concepts – DataInfo+ Definitions of terms used in this release. Principles and protocols for producers of Tier 1 statistics Statistics in this release have been produced in accordance with the Official Statistics System principles and protocols for producers of Tier 1 statistics for quality. They conform to the Statistics NZ Methodological Standard for Reporting of Data Quality. Related information The latest movements in related series were as follows:    The food price index fell 0.5 percent in May 2016, compared with April 2016. The consumers price index rose 0.2 percent in the March 2016 quarter, compared with the December 2015 quarter. Credit card billings in New Zealand, as published by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, were up 12 percent in May 2016, compared with May 2015. 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If you have problems viewing the files, see opening files and PDFs. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Electronic card transactions by industry – actual monthly values Electronic card transactions by industry – seasonally adjusted monthly values Electronic card transactions by industry – trend monthly values Electronic card transactions – number of transactions Electronic card transactions – averages and proportions A machine-readable zipped CSV file is also available in the 'Downloads' box. Access more data on Infoshare Infoshare allows you to organise data in the way that best meets your needs. You can view the resulting tables onscreen or download them. Use Infoshare For this release, select the following category from the Infoshare homepage: Subject category: Economic indicators Group: Electronic Card Transactions (ANZSIC06) – ECT Next release Electronic Card Transactions: July 2016 will be released on 9 August 2016. 6