WELLINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - New Zealand electronic retail card spending fell 0.2 percent on the month in December while actual sales rose 5.3 percent from the same month a year ago, Statistics New Zealand said on Thursday.
The electronic cards data covers about 68 percent of core retail sales in the country, and is the main measure of monthly retail activity.
----------------------------------------------------- The full data is available at http://www.stats.govt.nz.
