Atlas.id in New Zealand
Sometimes you need to get up really close and personal … with your community. Standing too far back can hide the special characteristics of a neighbourhood. When you are planning localised interventions or programmes...
Sometimes you need to get up really close and personal … with your community. Standing too far back can hide the special characteristics of a neighbourhood. When you are planning localised interventions or programmes...
I’m not one of those “stoic kiwis” who happily skips through freezing winters in a cold house. I grumble and moan through the cold months, mummified in multiple layers of clothing, promising myself tropical...
There’s not a council in New Zealand (or Australia for that matter) not actively encouraging people to make healthy, safe, environmentally sustainable transport choices whether it is through engineering, education or enforcement programmes. In...
If you are armpit deep in LTP planning, Statistics New Zealand’s release of revised subnational population estimates as at June 2013 will have been very, very welcome.
.id is proud to announce the launch of our New Zealand National Demographic Indicators Series (NDIS). The table ranks all Territorial Authorities (TAs) on a range of demographic measures.
In a recent blog, an .id colleague looked at smoker behaviour across Australia. The New Zealand 2013 Census results make for interesting comparison and the subject interested me after recently meeting a PhD student...
In a recent blog I looked at the development of the deprivation index in New Zealand (NZDep) and debated the strengths and weaknesses of its use. But talking to my Te Puni Kōkiri contact last...
The New Zealand 2013 Social Deprivation Index (NZDep) data was released recently. For those councils with profile.id, the updated NZDep figures can be viewed for each city/district down to a small area geography defined...
In recent blogs I have looked at the rising numbers and proportion of older people in the New Zealand population. Most Councils I work with are well aware that the type of houses built...
Over a coffee, a mate was recently mulling over her lot as a widowed woman close to retirement age. Apart from the amusing tales she had to tell of rejoining the dating game after...
Check out the new look profile.id sites our New Zealand clients have welcomed on-board this week ….. and (drumroll) the first instalment of the 2013 Census data has rolled through them overnight.
When Billy Joel sung about being “in a New York state of mind” he talked of his identity and about going back to his roots. New Yorkers, there are over eight million of them,...
In the construction industry, the Canterbury rebuild and Auckland’s housing shortage have been dominating media stories for some time. Much is made of Stats NZ’s monthly building consent figures. Building Consents statistics are used in...
Data from the 2013 Census for New Zealand is starting to roll out of Stats NZ (the kiwi ABS). This blog is for our Australian readers with an interest in New Zealand. It’s a...
In October 2012, Whanganui was named New Zealand’s first Smart21 Intelligent Community. Three Australian communities – Ballarat and Whittlesea in Victoria, and Prospect in South Australia were also in the top 21. Taichung City...
The .id gang went to the movies recently to check out Andreas Dalsgaard’s documentary The Human Scale, which looked at the work of Jan Gehl and his team of architects across ten cities including...
If science is the organised pursuit of triviality and art the casual pursuit of significance (according to Vera Nazarian), which camp does quizzing sit in? Quizzing is a world-wide phenomenon these days. I mean...
In my last blog I looked at historical growth in Auckland and talked only briefly about growth projections for Auckland. However, Statistics NZ’s projection that Auckland’s population will grow by a million people over...
I’ve been developing a fascination for the heady population growth figures of Auckland. The fascination is particularly strong after recently spending time in the deep south of the South Island and in the Far...
In a previous blog, I discussed the spatial distribution of different ethnicities in New Zealand. Now that the 2013 census is well under way, it is interesting to contemplate what the results will reveal...