The methods texts listed above provide only broad guidance about the NZ methodological experience, and otherwise the literature is scattered. Stats NZ technical statisticians provide occasional reports. For a general review see: Crothers (2008) “The Methodological Experience in NZ”.

For a review of over time linked census data see:
Family Wellbeing Indicators Report:Family Wellbeing Indicators from the 1981–2001 New Zealand Censuses

Also: Charles Crothers (ed.) (1986) The Uses and Limitations of Census Data, Occasional Paper, New Zealand Demographic Society.

For both methodological discussion and presentation of historical series see:
David C. Thorns, Charles P. Sedgwick. (1997) Understanding Aotearoa/New Zealand: historical statistics Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.

For a finding list of surveys in NZ download this document.