Stats NZ's quarterly data dashboard profiles key deliverables and how they contribute to the relevant visions of success:
The dashboard also documents the number of data-related engagements within and outside of government for each quarter and captures the number of international connections that have occurred.
Dashboard - March 2019 quarter [PDF 1.32 MB]
Open datasets released on data.govt.nz:
March 2019 quarter – 169
March 2018 quarter – 60
Total open datasets as at 31 March 2019: 6,558
Approved/in progress research project applications (opportunities to put New Zealand’s data to good use):
March 2019 quarter – 28
March 2018 quarter – 28
Supporting government and organisations to manage and use data
Total engagements: 72 (Government: 40, other organisations: 32)
Includes multiple interactions on different pieces of work.
Stats NZ worked with MBIE to produce the Characteristics of independent contractors in the screen industry report – data on the number and earnings of screen industry contractors and wage and salary earners.
Produced using Linked Employer-Employee Data (LEED) from 2007 to 2015, the data was used to inform the Regulatory Impact Assessment on a collective bargaining framework for film production workers in New Zealand.
This work demonstrates how LEED can be used to understand the dynamics and complexities of jobs within various industries, and how it can add value through data-driven decisions.
Characteristics of independent contractors in the screen industry
Contributes to: Innovation
An Advisory Group on Trusted Data Use is being convened by the Government Chief Data Steward (GCDS) to help maximise the opportunities and benefits from new and emerging uses of data, while managing potential risk.
Reporting to the GCDS, this independent group will enable agencies to test ideas, policy, and proposals related to new and emerging uses of data.
Following an expression of interest process, members are expected to be appointed in June 2019. The Group’s function and membership will be reviewed after 12 months.
Government Chief Data Steward (GCDS)
Advisory Group on Trusted Data Use
Contributes to: Innovation, Data-driven decisions, Valuable data
An agreed list of cultural indicators measuring how New Zealanders access and participate in our cultural sector has been delivered to the Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH).
We partnered with MCH to gain a greater understanding of who’s accessing government-funded cultural activities, and who’s missing out. The indicators will also form the basis for reporting on cultural access and participation.
As the basis for ministerial reporting, the indicators were based on stocktakes of New Zealand’s Crown-funded cultural agencies. The indicators also looked at innovative ways agencies are removing barriers to cultural access.
Contributes to: Innovation, Data-driven decisions, Valuable data
We’ve produced a series of short, easy to watch videos to explain the role of data and raise awareness of the different activities we’re working on.
Introduced by GCDS Liz MacPherson, the people leading the work talk about what they’re doing, and who they’re we’re partnering with.
Video series: leading New Zealand's data
Contributes to: Innovation
Government Statistician Liz MacPherson and General Manager Rachael Milicich represented New Zealand at the UN Statistical Commission – the highest standard-setting body for official statistics – in New York in March.
Highlights of the 6-day meeting included introducing the Friends of the Chair report prepared by a number of countries and led by New Zealand on the implementation of ‘Fundamental Principles on Official Statistics’ (adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2014).
A working group on open data was also introduced by the Statistical Commission to support better access to official statistics and continue the collaboration between the international statistical and open data communities.
Stats NZ has a long-standing commitment to assist Pacific nations to develop their statistical capability. We’ve delivered a range of products and services over the last decade to help increase sustainability through the New Zealand government’s Pacific Development Programme.
Three Pacific Island statisticians – from Fiji, Samoa and Tonga – were hosted by Stats NZ for 5 weeks in Q3, as part of our Pacific annual attachment programme.
The programme enables participants to tap into our expertise, insights and expertise to expand their knowledge as they work on projects for their National Statistics Offices (NSOs).
We also funded a sampling workshop in New Caledonia for 18 statisticians from 8 Pacific nations to help expand their survey sampling design knowledge. Sampling is identifying which people – the sample – to collect survey data from.
We worked with the World Bank, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community to develop and deliver the workshop, which enabled participants to develop sampling frameworks that were customised to reflect the needs of their countries.
Total connections in March 2019 quarter: 27
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