Food Price Index: November 2014

Imputation

Due to being unavailable at the time of price collection, on average 0.7 percent of prices (not including seasonal fresh fruit and vegetables) are imputed in a typical month – by carrying forward the previous month’s price.

For this month, we also imputed monthly food price movements for the following regional pricing centres: Whangarei – from Hamilton Napier-Hastings – from Tauranga New Plymouth – from Hamilton Palmerston North – from Hamilton
Invercargill – from Dunedin.

We did not receive food prices for the above regional pricing centres during this month, due to industrial action by some price collectors.