Net Worth - Mean and median liabilities by individual demographics and characteristics 2015

Values are rounded to the nearest thousand. Figures may not sum to stated totals, due to rounding.

Net worth: is the value of a person or household’s assets, minus their liabilities.
Assets: are something a person or household owns, such as property or investments.
Liability: is an obligation such as a debt, mortgage, or loan. The liability's holder is obliged, under specific circumstances, to provide a payment or series of payments to whomever they are liable to.
Household: is either one person who usually resides alone, or two or more people who usually reside together and share facilities (eg for eating or cooking) in a private dwelling. A household may contain one or more families, other people in addition to a family, or no families at all, such as unrelated people living together. Statistics New Zealand don't include non-private dwellings such as hostels, or the rest home and hospital sections of retirement homes (serviced apartments within retirement homes are counted as private dwellings).

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At URL provided, select "Household Net Worth Statistics: Year ended June 2015 – tables" from the box to the right-hand side of the page.

The Net Worth Household Statistics were collected as a component of the Household Economic Survey. To capture asset and liability information in enough detail, Statistics New Zealand increased the sample size for Household Economic Survey 2014/15 from 5,000 to 8,000 households.
The survey is a sample survey that uses statistical weights to calculate income and expenditure estimates for the total New Zealand population. For Household Economic Survey 2014/15, they used the weights based on the Census 2013 population.
The target population for HES is the usually resident population of New Zealand living in private dwellings, aged 15 years and over.