Services to schools

Subscription publications

NZIER produces a range of material that is suitable for the teaching of economics in schools. This material is normally only available to members of NZIER (annual cost of $1,700).

As schools’ requirements differ from those of our ordinary members, NZIER offers the following material to schools at discounted prices:

Quarterly Predictions – QP contains detailed and comprehensive forecasts for the New Zealand economy. We believe that the unbiased analysis in Quarterly Predictions sets a standard for forecasting in New Zealand.

Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion – QSBO is New Zealand’s longest running and most comprehensive business confidence survey. The resulting indicators are a valuable tool for assessing the current state of the economy, and forecasting short term economic activity.

These publications are made available to schools as either an annual subscription (one hard copy publication or emailed PDF per quarter), or as a class set of 30 hard copy publications for a single quarter. Prices for these publication options are shown in the table below:

Publication	Annual subscription	Class set
Quarterly Predictions	$325	$300
Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion	$300	$200

Note: Prices exclude postage and GST

To arrange your school’s subscription, please contact us using the details on the ‘Contact us’ page or email us.

School visits

NZIER hosts numerous school visits each year. In these visits, students are given an overview of the work carried out at the institute, and current economic issues are discussed. There is also some discussion of the qualifications necessary to become an economist.

To arrange a school visit, please contact us using the details on the ‘Contact us’ page or email us.

For further information and programmes your school can participate in please see the Enterprises New Zealand website.

Download publications

This website contains numerous publications that are useful for teaching economics, or as a resource for economics projects. Most of these are available free of charge, and include:

Tracking the economy – published weekly in the National Business Review
Update – a monthly publication to members
Consensus forecasts – a quarterly summary of New Zealand economic forecasts
NZIER reports and working papers – a selection of papers from NZIER
NZ Trade consortium working papers – NZIER papers dealing specifically with trade

Economic resources

The Resources page contains a series of articles on economics, as well as a glossary of economic terms and links to other useful websites.