Quarterly and Annual International Investment Surveys (QIIS/AIIS)
The QIIS and AIIS surveys are used to estimate the International Investment Position (IIP) and Balance of Payments (BoP). The IIP is New Zealand’s balance sheet with the rest of the world, and includes measures of New Zealand’s overseas debt. The BoP measure New Zealand’s business transactions with the rest of the world. QIIS and AIIS are used in estimates of investment income earned and paid (the current account),62 and transactions in the economy’s international equity assets and liabilities, and international borrowing and lending (the financial account).
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QIIS and AIIS are the primary source of data for BoP statistics on New Zealand firms’ international investment transactions and positions (balance sheet). Information on assets and liabilities (values of assets and liabilities held, and international borrowing and lending) is captured in both the annual and quarterly surveys, while the QIIS also provides details on the composition of changes in investment values (financial accounts, market price revaluations, exchange rate adjustments and other changes) and flows of investment income and expenditure (profits, interest, dividends).
The QIIS collects data on the breakdown of foreign investment in New Zealand and New Zealand’s investment abroad by country, type of instrument, maturity, currency, and by type of asset or liability. The detailed quarterly data is held in load bop comp answer QIIS. LBD fact tables aggregate the quarterly data to an annual frequency – selecting the closing quarter for stock values and summing up reported flow data. The load tables provide country-level data as well as including QIIS and AIIS data based on a range of different classification methods.
For more information, see pages 35-31 of the Rough Guide to the LBD
Links
Annual Investment Survey 2013
Quarterly Investment Survey 2015
SNZ website