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Integrated household surveys: a survey vehicles approach

Statistics New Zealand’s household surveys are currently run mainly as stand-alone surveys. This paper proposes an approach where household survey content is integrated into three survey…

Social and population statistics information needs for New Zealand

Social and population statistics provide important information about the progress of our society. They are essential for government planning and expenditure decisions. Authoritative and trusted statistics…

A register-based census: what is the potential for New Zealand?

Some countries, including Finland and Denmark, are now conducting their population censuses using administrative data registers rather than a nationwide survey of households. This information paper…

Health and Pacific People in New Zealand

Health and Pacific Peoples in New Zealand is the third report in the Pacific Progress series. It presents findings on Pacific peoples’ health outcomes, discusses the socio-economic…

Petition estimators and their variance (Stats NZ WP 10-04)

Petition estimators and their variance reviews the statistical and mathematical aspects of determining how many registered electors have signed a petition authorised under the New Zealand…

Exogenous versus endogenous rates of return: The user cost of capital in Statistics New Zealand's multifactor productivity measures (Stats NZ WP 10-03)

In 2003, Statistics New Zealand received funding under the Government’s growth and innovation framework (GIF) to develop official productivity measures for the New Zealand economy. In…

Chasing shadows – Comparing sex ratios in census, estimated resident, and Linked Employer-Employee data populations (Stats NZ WP 10-02)

Changes in sex ratios observed in census and population estimates have drawn the attention of demographers and media in recent years and are articulated in the…

Ageing and violent crime in New Zealand (Stats NZ WP 10-01)

In this paper we answer three questions about demographic change and violent crime in New Zealand: How has the age-sex profile of violent offending been changing?…

Sole parenting in New Zealand

The Ministry of Social Development led a cross-agency and cross-sector research programme that looked at changes in the rate of sole parenthood, sole parent employment and…

Annual measures of job creation and destruction in New Zealand

Job creation and destruction statistics at the aggregate level reflect the net result of the thousands of businesses in the New Zealand economy changing their specific…