# Explore New Zealand business indicators

Find cited figures for New Zealand business activity, employment, population, household spending, prices, regional electricity costs and Reserve Bank interest and exchange rates. Coverage varies by measure and region.

Canonical: https://aroai.com/tools/nz_business_indicators/

## Tool reference

MCP tool ID: `nz_business_indicators`. Availability: Live. Country: New Zealand.

Credit use: 1 credit.

## Input schema

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "metric": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 80,
      "description": "Supported metric ID. Unknown IDs fail closed and return the closest supported choices. Supported metric IDs: business_enterprises, business_employees, business_births, business_deaths, enterprises_by_business_type, enterprises_by_sector, enterprises_by_overseas_equity, enterprises_by_employment_size, geographic_units_by_region_and_industry, geographic_units_by_region_and_size, median_earnings_by_industry, median_earnings_by_region, median_earnings_by_occupation, filled_jobs_by_industry_region, job_creation_by_industry_region, job_destruction_by_industry_region, median_earnings_by_industry_region, population_estimates_by_region, population_projections_by_region, labour_productivity_by_industry, livestock_numbers, household_expenditure_by_region, census_occupations_by_region, census_industries_by_region, electricity_retail_bill, electricity_retail_variable_rate, cpi_annual_inflation, ppi_output_inflation, cgpi_inflation, gdp_growth_qoq, building_consents_dwellings, unemployment_rate, employed_persons, qes_average_weekly_earnings, lci_wage_growth, eeca_public_ev_charger_units, eeca_public_ev_charger_density, mbie_jobs_online_vacancy_index, building_consents_dwellings_by_region, official_cash_rate, wholesale_interest_rates, retail_interest_rates, nzd_exchange_rates."
    },
    "geography": {
      "description": "National, a supported region/state, or an Electricity Authority network reporting region.",
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 2,
      "maxLength": 80
    },
    "industry": {
      "description": "Use only an industry code supported by the selected metric. `filled_jobs_by_industry_region` uses Stats NZ LEED codes AI2A–AI2R or AI3A–AI3O, not ANZSIC letters or names; omit industry for the all-industry total. Do not infer a code from a trade label.",
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 80
    },
    "category": {
      "description": "Series category for metrics requiring category: wholesale_interest_rates (OCR, BANK_BILL_30D/60D/90D, GOV_BOND_1Y/2Y/5Y/10Y, SWAP_1Y/2Y/3Y/5Y/10Y, INTERBANK_CASH), retail_interest_rates (FLOATING_MORTGAGE, MORTGAGE_6M/1Y/18M/2Y/3Y/4Y/5Y, TERM_DEPOSIT_6M, SME_OVERDRAFT, CREDIT_CARD), or nzd_exchange_rates (TWI, TWI_REAL, USD, AUD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CNY, etc.).",
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 80,
      "pattern": "^[a-zA-Z0-9 _\\-&,.]*$"
    },
    "load_type": {
      "description": "Electricity Authority price assumption; defaults to standard user.",
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "standard",
        "low"
      ]
    },
    "period": {
      "description": "Reference period according to the selected series. `building_consents_dwellings` returns only the latest monthly point: omit period for latest, or use its exact YYYY-MM only when you know it matches the current release. It does not aggregate years or return historical months.",
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^(?:\\d{4}(?:-(?:\\d{1,2}|Q[1-4]))?|Q[1-4]\\s+\\d{4}|[A-Za-z]{3,9}\\s+\\d{4})$"
    },
    "period_start": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^(?:\\d{4}(?:-(?:\\d{1,2}|Q[1-4]))?|Q[1-4]\\s+\\d{4}|[A-Za-z]{3,9}\\s+\\d{4})$",
      "description": "Reference period: YYYY, YYYY-MM, YYYY-Qn, Qn YYYY, or a month and year such as Sep 2026, according to the selected source series."
    },
    "period_end": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^(?:\\d{4}(?:-(?:\\d{1,2}|Q[1-4]))?|Q[1-4]\\s+\\d{4}|[A-Za-z]{3,9}\\s+\\d{4})$",
      "description": "Reference period: YYYY, YYYY-MM, YYYY-Qn, Qn YYYY, or a month and year such as Sep 2026, according to the selected source series."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "metric"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}
```