Estimates used as “bottom lines” in calculating market coverage rates
Statistics NZ (Stats NZ) has released dwelling and household estimates for the March 2021 quarter, with private dwelling estimates hitting 1,954,000 and household estimates 1,865,300.
Dwelling estimates are a measure of the private dwelling stock in New Zealand and include occupied and unoccupied private dwellings. Meanwhile, household estimates are a measure of the usually occupied private dwellings in the country. Both are used for planning, policy formation, business decisions, and as “bottom lines” to calculate market coverage rates.
All dwelling and household estimates for periods after June 2018 are 2018-base, with the estimates from September 2018 onwards subject to revision after the 2023-base estimated resident population is published.
Meanwhile, household estimates from September 30, 2013 onwards are provisional until the release of National family and household projections: 2018-base to 2043 in December 2021, pending further analysis of the population by living arrangement type.
The estimated total households on June 30, 2018 was provisionally revised upwards to 1,781,700 (up by 2.1% on the 2013-base estimate). On the same date, 65.5% of New Zealand households lived in owner-occupied dwellings, 32.0% lived in rented dwellings, and 3.4% lived in dwellings provided free.
