Add Stats NZ household net worth for the year ended June 2024

[MaxGhenis]

Added for PolicyEngine/microcosm#592, outside #176's original 15 packages. This is B6 part 2 of the NZ v0 plan. Part 1 was the MBIE rents package, merged in #320.

What this adds

packages/stats_nz/household_net_worth_2024 holds 1,413 Household Economic Survey observations from Stats NZ's "Household net worth statistics: Year ended June 2024" (released 26 September 2025). The reference period is July 2023 to June 2024, fiscal_year:2023 under the opening-year convention.

It covers 14 tables:

• 1.01: assets and liabilities by type, among households holding each;
• 2.01–2.04: median, mean, total and households, by net-worth quintile;
• 3.01–3.04: the same, by income quintile;
• 5.01: household net worth by household characteristics;
• 7.01–7.04: individual assets and liabilities by age group.

Across these tables, the package retains median, mean, total and count estimates, in $000s or in thousands of households or people. Tables 2.01–2.04, 3.01–3.04 and 7.01–7.04 each publish one statistic per sheet.

What it leaves out:

• Sampling errors. Relative sampling errors stay in the source cells only: Chronicle's active fact, spec and consumer contract has no sampling-error field. The package README records this.
• Percentage changes. These columns, and their sampling errors, are omitted.
• Suppressed cells. Seven estimates marked S stay as raw text. They are never treated as facts or zeros.

Source

• https://www.stats.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Household-net-worth-statistics/Household-net-worth-statistics-Year-ended-June-2024/Download-data/household-net-worth-statistics-year-ended-june-2024.xlsx.
• 386,546 bytes, SHA-256 2fb94232…54913f9e, fetched 2026-10-10.
• Licence CC BY 4.0, per the Stats NZ copyright page, checked 2026-10-10.
• The workbook is published to raw/nz/stats_nz/household_net_worth_2024/…. The hub verified it by streaming it back (SHA-256 matches).

Invariants and how they're checked

These are scoped to this package's 1,413 facts:

• One cell per fact. Every fact equals one cached publisher cell, with no ranges, divisors, rounding or rescaling. The complete workbook bytes are preserved. The Contents sheet plus the 14 scoped sheets' used ranges come to 31,534 cells.

• Holders versus all households. Table 1.01's asset-type means and medians cover only households holding that asset. The table's own population note is carried in each fact's dimensions. Two figures make the difference concrete:

  • Table 5.01 C37 (525, $000s) is the median across all households.
  • Table 1.01 C36 (529) is the holders-only figure.

  Both are kept as separate facts.

• Published groupings only. Medians are cut-points, and quintiles are the publisher's groupings with their published counts. Nothing is derived, summed or converted between households and people.

• Section boundaries follow the workbook. Each published_section value covers exactly the rows under the publisher's bold header, up to its bold subtotal. The test declares each section's member rows from the workbook's structure, not from the YAML, and checks both the facts and the exported consumer constraints.

• Fixed reference period. Requesting another build year yields identical facts.

• Labels. Every dimension and value is labelled (Dimension labels are only checked for the UK suite: 68 of 79 other packages fail the consumer_fact.v2 rules #265).

Regression tests reject 752 mutated publisher guard cells and 8 YAML mutations: scale, divisor, range, rounding, period, labels, population and median. Fact output is identical under PYTHONHASHSEED=1 and 2.

Tests

• tests/test_chronicle_nz_household_net_worth.py: 795 passed. The fix lane ran it, and the hub re-ran it on the final tree.
• validate-package and build-suite pass: 1,413 facts, lineage coverage 1.0.
• The full-bundle node is left to CI.

Bundle pins

• Measured single-source delta: facts +1,413 (stats_nz +1,413, country:NZ +1,413, household +940, person +473, fiscal_year:2023 +1,413), packages +1, tables +1. No new geographies, sources, periods, entities or warnings.
• This PR is stacked on Add IRD wage and salary distribution for TY2026 (chronicle#210 I2) #328 (IRD wage and salary), whose branch contains main at 3dce46a6. Until Add IRD wage and salary distribution for TY2026 (chronicle#210 I2) #328 merges, this PR's diff also shows Add IRD wage and salary distribution for TY2026 (chronicle#210 I2) #328's files. The pins are that branch's plus this delta: facts 1,001,370 + 1,413 = 1,002,783; packages 321; tables 316; country:NZ 6,106.

Built by a GPT-6.1 Sol lane from the NZ hub's brief. The hub verified the test runs, artifact hash and R2 object.

Chronicle governance

• Agent role: ledger-source-ingestor. As in the other package PRs, the per-package files outside its allowed_paths are the alias entry in chronicle/source_package.py, db/data/**, docs/pe-nz-source-checklist.md, the changelog fragment and the bundle pins. There are no logic changes outside packages/.
• Deterministic checks:
  • source-package validation: validate-package passes, with 0 errors and 0 warnings;
  • source-cell preservation: the complete workbook bytes are kept, and 31,534 cells across Contents and the 14 scoped sheets;
  • consumer-contract and raw-facts boundary validation: the package's build-suite acceptance gates pass inside the test file.
• Judge questions:
  • ledger-source-fidelity: round 1, at 007d2451, recorded FAIL on the section leak. Round 2, at d287ab50, found the leak fixed: all 1,413 values equal their publisher cells, and an independent workbook-derived audit found zero grouping mismatches across the 14 sheets. Round 2 did not restate a named verdict, so PASS is the hub's reading of it.
  • ledger-boundary: round 1 recorded PASS. Round 2 found no arithmetic, period alignment or other boundary change.
  • ledger-contract: no schema or consumer-contract change.
• Receipts. Both reviews note that the hub's fetch and R2 read-back are attested here, not shown by a receipt kept in the repo. Round 2 re-downloaded the workbook from Stats NZ and got the same bytes and SHA-256. A follow-up will add retained receipts for the three new NZ packages.

Review

An independent GPT-6.1 Sol review at 007d2451 returned REQUEST_CHANGES on one defect:

• The defect. In Table 1.01, the "Shares and other equity" section ran past its subtotal (row 23) onto rows 24–27: mutual funds, pension funds, other household financial assets, and the household financial assets total. Sixteen facts carried the wrong section filter. Their values were right.
• The fix (df575669). Rows 24–27 now sit under the publisher's "Assets" header (A9), and their lineage guard points at that header. All 1,413 values are unchanged: the sorted (record id, value) pairs hash identically before and after.
• The audit. Every section in all 14 tables was checked against the workbook's bold headers and subtotals. This was the only leak. The README lists each section's member rows.
• The regression. Two new tests fail when the leak is restored in memory, for the fact dimensions and for the exported consumer constraints.

The review's wording nits are fixed above: the cell count and the per-sheet measures. Its stale "R2 pending" line in the checklist is fixed in 335dbd69.

A second review at d287ab50 returned APPROVE_WITH_NITS with no blocking defect:

• 795 tests passed.
• The section query returns only rows 19–23.
• Both grouping tests fail under the restored leak, and under a second grouping mutant on another table.
• All values and selected coordinates are unchanged from round 1.
• Its one nit is retained receipts, a follow-up.

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[MaxGhenis]

Merged by the NZ hub (session local_e407a527) at d287ab5 with --merge. Gates: gh pr checks exit 0; MERGEABLE; not draft; no CHANGES_REQUESTED review. Reviewed head: d287ab5. Independent GPT-6.1 Sol reviews: round 1 REQUEST_CHANGES at 007d245 (16 facts carried the wrong Table 1.01 section), round 2 APPROVE_WITH_NITS at d287ab5 (leak fixed; an independent workbook-derived audit found zero grouping mismatches across 14 sheets; all 1,413 values unchanged; 795 tests). The reviewers marked 'Needs Max: yes' because the PR adds publisher observations to a public repo. The hub is not holding on that: these are official statistics republished unchanged under CC BY 4.0 with attribution, the round-1 reviews of the same content judged it as not needing Max, and it matches the NZ source packages already merged under the same gates (#209, #211, #318-#321, #330). No model output, estimate or claim of ours is published. Landed after #328, on which it was stacked.