Tier 1 statistics are New Zealand’s most important statistics, and are essential to help the Government, business, and members of the public to make informed decisions and monitor the state and progress of New Zealand.
The following articles are from the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation's May 2025 newsletter. The newsletter comes out quarterly, full of news, commentary, opinion, and education.
The terms of reference for the Data Ethics Advisory Group outline the purpose, role, and membership of the Group.
Agreement to terms1. Welcome to the data.govt.nz site and the catalogue.data.govt.nz site hosted and operated by the Department of Internal Affairs (”we”, “our”, “DIA”) (for the purpose of…
This implementation plan lists the tasks underway or planned for the next six months to implement the Open Data Action Plan. This is a rolling plan that will be regularly updated to reflect what we've learnt as we progress.
The following articles are from the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation's March 2026 newsletter.
1. What is NZGOAL?NZGOAL is an open access and open licensing framework that promotes the release for re-use of non-personal copyright works and non-copyright material held…
Introduction1 When NZGOAL was first released in August 2010, it supported use of the Creative Commons 3.0 New Zealand licences. At that time, this made obvious…
The minutes for each meeting of the Data Ethics Advisory Group, grouped by date, are summarised here.
23 November 2023
2 October 2023
22 August 2023
21 June 2023
23 May…
At the closing of the Open Government Data Programme, Stats NZ commissioned Martin Jenkin to carry out an independent review of the Open Data Programme. The…