Stats NZ provides a series of standards and classifications for official statistics, together with occasional guidelines and other discussions which can provide useful guidance to questions, response-categories and coding of answers.
Classifications/ standards available include:
Australia and New Zealand Standard Research Classification
Access to telecommunications systems
Accommodation
Age
Age of youngest child
Air routes
Area unit
Broad economic categories
Business type
Child dependency status
Cigarette smoking behaviour
Country
Currency
Dwelling address
Dwelling occupancy status
Dwelling type
Dwellings households and families standard terms
Ethnicity
Family type
Fertility
Financial assets and liabilities
Framework for cultural statistics
Fuel types used in dwellings
General electoral district
Harmonised system
Hours worked in employment
Household composition
Industrial classification
Institutional sector
Iwi
Labour force status
Language
Level of processing - trade
Living arrangements
Main means of travel to work
Maori descent
Maori electoral district
Marital status
Meshblock
Non-profit organisation
Number of children
Number of motor vehicles
Number of rooms/bedrooms
Occupation
Population counts and estimates overview
Population counts and estimates fact sheet
Population terms standard
Qualifications
Regional council
Relationship
Religious affiliation
Sex
Sex of sole parent
Sheep breeds
Status in employment
Tenure of household
Territorial authority
Type of couple
Urban area
Usual residence
Usual residence N years ago
Ward
Weekly rent paid by households
Workplace address
Year of arrival/years since arrival in New Zealand
Years at usual residence.
Other scales or indices that have been developed include:
Elsi “ELSI Short Form: User Manual for a Direct Measure of Living Standards”
www.msd.govt.nz/work-areas/social-research/living-standards/elsi-short-form.html
NZSEI: New Zealand Socio-economic index 1996. An update and revision of the New Zealand Socio-economic index of Occupational Status.
NZDepIND NZDep2006 Index of Deprivation Report (PDF, 295 KB) http://www.moh.govt.nz/phi/publications#CensusPopulation
NZIDep Salmond C, Crampton P, King P and Waldegrave C (2006) “NZiDep: A New Zealand Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation for Individuals” Social Science and Medicine, Vol 62 (6), March, pp Pages 1474-1485 and Salmond, C.; King, P; Crampton, P. and Waldegrave, C. (2005) NZiDep: A New Zealand Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation for Individuals. Wellington: University of Otago and The Family Centre Social Policy Research Unit. (pdf 6.7 mb) zip (911 kb)
There is also a scatter of other instruments which have been deployed in NZ social research, not yet consolidated.
The general source for many educational and psychological tests in NZ is the NZCER’s Test Center
A Dunedin project which generated much knowledge about historical data can be accessed here.
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