The mandated standard to be used to format person name for sharing purposes.
Contact details must be easy to read and use, this includes phone numbers, email addresses, postal addresses, and street addresses.
Phone and fax numbersWe:
use freephone (rather than…
The rules and guidelines for punctuation and grammar on data.govt.nz - these aim to increase the accessibility, readability, and usability of information.
On this page
Exclamation marks
Colon and…
Data.govt.nz adopted an international data harvesting open standard (data.json) to automate agency dataset updates and additions. There are tools available to help generate the correct format and the open standard data schema is detailed with examples.
Obviously, data.govt.nz often includes numbers, dates, and times. To ensure that these are easy to read and understand, we follow clear rules and guidelines.
NumbersIn general:
we use…
The mandated standard to be used to format street address information for sharing purposes.
Export an agencies datasets into sub-folders including any hosted or referenced data files and a json file with metadata.
Government agencies are undergoing a culture change – they’re moving towards their data being ‘open by design’. At a recent workshop international expert Ellen Broad explained what open data is and outlined some of the considerations for agencies that are opening up their data.
The standards that Stats NZ produces, previously referred to as statistical standards, will now be called data standards. Read more about the difference between data and statistical standards, when the change will be made and what you might notice about the change here.
A definitive list of approved mandated data standards.