Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of the monthly visitor arrivals by air transport to New Zealand (January 1993─December 2013).

Countries	Maximum	Minimum	Mean	Standard deviation	Skewness	Kurtosis	Q(1)	Q(12)	Q2(1)	Q2(12)	Share of NZ's total monthly visitors	Average monthly growth rate
Australia	163,520	20,174	62,663	27,649	0.86	3.84	0.74***	0.88***	0.55***	0.87***	37.35%	0.68%
Canada	8533	940	3210	1718	0.75	2.53	0.81***	0.93***	0.79***	0.92***	1.91%	0.32%
China	31,440	192	6432	5719	1.14	4.28	0.89***	0.75***	0.75***	0.56***	3.83%	1.74%
Japan	20,214	2340	10,870	4095	0.07	2.24	0.72***	0.84***	0.67***	0.84***	6.48%	−0.13%
South Korea	18,575	702	6575	3422	0.75	3.65	0.76***	0.62***	0.62***	0.69***	3.92%	0.21%
Germany	11,504	871	4654	2772	0.36	1.78	0.79***	0.93***	0.73***	0.90***	2.77%	0.26%
United Kingdom	48,990	3936	17,452	11,110	1.02	3.08	0.82***	0.93***	0.77***	0.94***	10.40%	0.38%
United States	28,566	6972	14,994	5019	0.45	2.26	0.69***	0.90***	0.68***	0.89***	8.94%	0.34%

Remarks: The table above reports the summary statistics for the monthly visitor arrivals by air transport from New Zealand's eight main tourist source markets. The table also presents autocorrelations of order 1 (Q(1)) and order 12 (Q(12)), and autocorrelations of the squared residuals of an AR(1) model of order 1 (Q²(1)) and order 4 (Q²(12)). The Ljung and Box, 1978 test statistics are significant at * p < 0.10, **p < 0.05 and ***p < 0.01.