[PEN-L:6824] Re: New Zealand living standards

[bill mitchell <ECWFM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>For those followers of New Zealand on the list, the following NZ
>Press Association item will be of interest, particularly since the
>period covers most of the economic restructuring which began in 1984.
>(Note that Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) is the semi-commercialised,
>but still state-owned, Department of Statistics.)


The data is hard to interpret. Could you append it with some distributional
data?

kind regards
bill
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