About The Kiwidex
New Zealand's economy, one dashboard.
New Zealand's economic data is scattered across government spreadsheets, supermarket search pages, central bank XLSX files, and fuel company APIs. Finding the price of petrol means one site. Checking the OCR means another. Grocery prices require visiting three separate stores. Mortgage rates live in an RBNZ Excel file.
The Kiwidex pulls it all into one place — twenty-five indicators from twelve official and commercial sources, collected automatically, twice a day. On top of the numbers, an AI news engine monitors eleven outlets, clusters articles into stories, and writes editorial summaries when coverage spans multiple sources.
From the price of milk to the Official Cash Rate — one page that tells you how NZ is doing right now.
How It Works
Methodology
Every number on The Kiwidex is sourced, automated, and verifiable.
Data Collection
Automated scrapers pull from RBNZ, Stats NZ, MBIE, REINZ, and more — parsing spreadsheets, CSV feeds, and APIs twice daily.
Price Tracking
Grocery prices collected from Woolworths, Pak'nSave, and New World. Products matched by size, brand, and category for accurate comparisons.
News Clustering
RSS feeds from 11 NZ outlets scored by economic relevance, then grouped into stories using keyword matching and automated classification.
Editorial Summaries
When a story gains coverage from multiple newsrooms, an editorial summary is generated capturing key angles and related economic indicators.
Historical Context
Every data point is stored over time, so you can see how metrics have changed week over week, month over month, and spot the trends that matter.
Public Sources
All data is sourced from publicly available government and industry APIs, spreadsheets, and websites. No proprietary or paywalled data.
FAQ
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