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Electricity Commission Centralised Dataset

Electricity Commission

The Electricity Commission is required to establish, maintain, and publish a Centralised Dataset (CDS) under Part F of the Electricity Governance Rules. The purpose of the Centralised Dataset is to support efficient planning processes by ensuring the collection and maintenance of historical information required to make decisions on transmission and transmission alternatives. The Centralised Dataset includes: Half - [...]

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Annual Residential and Commercial Electricity Price Survey

Ministry of Economic Development

Figures represent the average retail charge paid by the consumer and the component of that charge which can be attributed to lines company and transmission charges. It contains historical data back to 1984.

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Authoritative Streets and Names (ASP)

Land Information New Zealand

LINZ maintains the Authoritative Streets and Places (ASP) database from which it generates the Index to Places and Streets publication. The database is authoritative for electoral purposes only. It is maintained on a daily basis so that the Index can be published at short notice.

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Census of population and dwellings

Statistics New Zealand

The Census of Population and Dwellings provides a five-yearly snapshot of the New Zealand population at that time. Population information from the census includes counts of total population and usually resident population by characteristics like age, sex, ethnicity, and location. The census also collects information about where people live, producing counts of all dwellings, occupied and [...]

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Company Office Company, Director, Shareholder, Banned Directors & Manager Search

Ministry of Economic Development

The Companies Office provides access to the register via a SOAP API. There is no download of the entire Companies Office dataset but searches are available via the API. Searching and accessing the data is free however performing transactions against the database incurs a small fee. Company search (using current or previous name) Company details - FREE Former [...]

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Daily and weekly average prices of crude oil, petrol and diesel

Ministry of Economic Development

These data sets show daily and weekly average prices of crude oil, petrol and diesel. Prices are weighted daily averages in nominal New Zealand cents per litre and take into account $US/$NZ exchange rate movements.

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Data Tables for Coal

Ministry of Economic Development

The following tables show the data collected for each quarter in relation to coal.

Crown Copyright

Data tables for Electricity

Ministry of Economic Development

The following tables show the data collected for each quarter in relation to electricity. Table 1: Net Electricity Generation by Fuel Type (GWh) Table 2: Net Electricity Generation by Fuel Type (PJ) Table 3: Estimated Generation by Fuel Type for 2007 (MWh) Table 4: Information on Current Generating Plants (10 MW or Greater) Table 5: Estimated Generating Capacity by Fuel [...]

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Data tables for Gas

Ministry of Economic Development

The following tables show the data collected for each quarter in relation to gas: Table 1: Total Gas Production by Field Table 2: Net Gas Production by Field Table 3: Gas Production (Gross PJ) Table 4: Gas Use (Gross PJ) Table 5: CNG Sales (Gross PJ) Table 6: Gas Consumption by the Residential Sector Table 7: Gas Consumption by the Commercial Sector Table [...]

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Data Tables for Oil

Ministry of Economic Development

This is a collection of 14 tables collected for each quarter in relation to oil in XLS and CSV formats.

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Data Tables for Renewables

Ministry of Economic Development

The following table shows the data collected for each quarter in relation to renewables. Table 1: Renewable Energy Supply and Consumption

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DigitalNZ API

National Library of New Zealand Te Puna MÄ

The metadata available through DigitalNZ comes from content providers across the New Zealand cultural and heritage, broadcasting, education, and government sectors; as well as local community sources and individuals. Geospatial and commercial content is coming soon. Our goal is to uncover hidden or buried New Zealand content such as images, audio, video, interactives, and documents, and [...]

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Early Childhood Education Directory

Ministry of Education

The Ministry of Education maintains addresses and other descriptive details of all New Zealand educational institutions. This list contains a download of the information for early childhood educational institutions. These files are updated on a monthly basis. As all address details are provided by the institutions, the Ministry gives no indemnity as to the correctness [...]

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Energy Use 2002-2005 Report tables

Statistics New Zealand

Energy is an essential element of any contemporary society and economy. Virtually all everyday activities and productive processes involve energy in one form or another. Internationally, economies are extremely reliant on energy, especially in the form of non-renewable oil-based fuels, such as petrol and diesel. Questions on where the available energy is being used, and how [...]

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Fiscal Time Series - Historical Fiscal Indicators 1972-2008

The Treasury

The spreadsheet available here contains historical fiscal data, including debt, fiscal balance, tax and spending since 1972. An explanation of each series can be found in the Series Description sheet. Summary of Data Data covers the years 1972 to 2008. We have not attempted to reconcile and backdate for changes in accounting policies and users should be aware [...]

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Hydro Lake Level Data

Electricity Commission

OPUS International has prepared a report “Lake level history” for the Commission which provides a brief history of the fluctuations in the levels of the major lakes used for hydropower generation in New Zealand. The lakes covered are Ohau, Tekapo, Pukaki, Te Anau, Manapouri, Hawea, Wanaka, Wakatipu, Taupo and Waikaremoana. The report describes the recording [...]

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Insolvency and Trustee Service

Ministry of Economic Development

The Insolvency and Trustee Service (ITS) is pleased to announce the introduction of its new web service. This free web service allows direct access to ITS records, including: individuals in a: personal bankruptcy, No Asset Procedure, or Summary Instalment Order, and to companies in liquidation where the Official Assignee is the liquidator.

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Intellectual Property Office Register Search

Ministry of Economic Development

The Intellectual Property Office provides access to the register via a SOAP API. There is no download of the entire Intellectual Property Office dataset but searches are available via the API. Searching and accessing the data is free however performing transactions against the database incurs a fee. Search services IPONZ database searches - FREE Trade mark search Patent search Design [...]

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Land Cover Database

Ministry for the Environment

The New Zealand Land Cover Database (LCDB) is digital map of the land surface of the country. It is created by grouping together similar classes which can be identified in satellite images. Being digital, it can be used to make a number of different maps. As a map, it can be combined with other geographic [...]

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Landonline Bulk Data Extract

Land Information New Zealand

Landonline integrates New Zealand’s geodetic, cadastral, and land titles data. LINZ makes Landonline data available as the Landonline Bulk Data Extract. The BDE is supplied in a specialised format.  The data is available in common GIS formats from a third-party suppliers.

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List of Electricity Generation Projects

Electricity Commission

The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the status of in-development and proposed generation projects.

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Long-term data series (Treasury)

Statistics New Zealand

The long-term data series have been collected together by staff at Treasury to provide a general reference source of information on demographic, social and economic trends in New Zealand. The series cover varying periods of time between 1840 and 2004. They are made available as downloadable Excel spreadsheets (Excel 2002 format), and each file contains one data worksheet and [...]

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Manukau City Food Premises

Manukau City Council

Name, address and grading of premises selling food in Manukau City. The data is in PDF format which makes it a bit hard to read via scripts but it is there.

No license

Market Rent

Department of Building and Housing

Market rent is described (in the Residential Tenancies Act) as what a willing landlord might reasonably expect to receive, and a willing tenant might reasonably expect to pay for the tenancy, in comparison with rent levels for similar properties in similar areas. We take information from bonds received within the last 6 months to provide an [...]

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Ministry of Fisheries Science Research Documents

Ministry of Fisheries

This site contains documents relating to Ministry of Fisheries funded research from 1988 to the current date. The data on the site is in HTML but this should be available in a machine readable format by asking the Ministry.

Crown Copyright

Monthly Economic Indicators

The Treasury

The Monthly Economic Indicators (MEI) publication is a stock-take of economic data releases. The MEI is prepared by the Forecasting and Monitoring team in the Macroeconomic group at the Treasury. The MEI includes a commentary on the major data releases over the previous month and an annex with more detailed charts and source data. The MEI will [...]

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Motor Vehicle Registration Statistics

New Zealand Transport Agency

The NZ Transport Agency produces a wide range of statistics on motor vehicles registered in New Zealand, including information on makes, models, vehicle types, domiciles, weights, cc ratings, motive power and many other categories. From the Website: “Our information analysts can also provide more up-to-date, specific data on a monthly basis. A fee of $56.25 (inc GST) [...]

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National Broadband Map

State Services Commission

The National Broadband Map exists to comprehensively map New Zealand’s Broadband landscape and provide information and tools to aid in demand aggregation and infrastructure planning. The National Broadband Map can be accessed and consumed in a number of ways from the visual representation of Broadband supply and demand to raw access to the underlying data.

Crown Copyright

National Climate Database

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited

CliFlo is the web system that provides access to New Zealand’s National Climate Database.  The climate database holds data from about 6500 climate stations which have been operating for various periods since the earliest observations were made in the year 1850. The database continues to receive data from over 600 stations that are currently operating.CliFlo returns [...]

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National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank

Landcare Research New Zealand Limited

The National Vegetation Survey Databank (NVS) is a physical archive and computer databank containing records from approximately 77,000 vegetation survey plots–including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS provides a unique record, spanning more than 50 years, of indigenous and exotic plants in New Zealand’s terrestrial ecosystems, from Northland to Stewart Island and the Kermadec [...]

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New Zealand Debt Management Office Data

The Treasury

Data relating to Kiwi Bond interest rates, Treasury Bill and Government Bond tender results.

Crown Copyright

New Zealand Gazetteer of Official Geographic Names

Land Information New Zealand

The New Zealand Gazetteer of Official Geographic Names (the Gazetteer) is published by the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB). The Gazetteer contains all official names for features within the NZGB’s jurisdiction. The Gazetteer includes the following information for each official name: official name gazette or statutory reference type of feature or place [...]

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New Zealand Place Names Database (Archived)

Land Information New Zealand

The New Zealand Place Names Database contains place names that appear on LINZ’s Topographic NZMS260 map series. Official names are listed in the New Zealand Gazetteer of Official Geographic Names. Get help finding names. Note that maintenance of the database, previously known as the New Zealand Geographic Place Names database, ended on 31 October 2008. The database [...]

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NZTA InfoConnect Highway Info Data

New Zealand Transport Agency

Highway Info provides state highway road and traffic information, limited webcam coverage in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, planned road works,unplanned road closures and delays e.g. crashes, events and parades, maps, 0800 infoline details, and holiday traffic information. Unfortunately most of the information for developers is hidden behind a registration screen.

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NZTopo Topographic Database

Land Information New Zealand

Topographical mapping is available in vector form from the NZTopo database. This data is used to create the NZMS 260 1:50,000 map series. The data is available in 1Spatials’ LAMPS2 format. It is likely that it will be more convenient to obtain the data from a third-party in a more conventional GIS format. Small amounts of [...]

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Papakura Food Premises Grading

Papakura District Council

On 13 February 2006 Council resolved to introduce a performance assessment reporting and grading system for food premises.  The system was introduced on April 1 2006. It is designed to measure a premises’ degree of compliance with the Food Hygiene Regulations 1974.  The degree of compliance is represented by an alphabet letter which is assigned according [...]

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Personal Property Securities Register

Ministry of Economic Development

The Personal Property Securities Register provides access to the register via a SOAP API. There is no download of the entire dataset but searches are available via the API. Searching and accessing the data generally incurs a fee: Search services Search for registered security interests Debtor person or Debtor organisation search $NZ1 Motor vehicle serial number search $NZ1 Aircraft serial [...]

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Primary and Secondary Schools Directory

Ministry of Education

The Ministry of Education maintains addresses and other descriptive details of all New Zealand educational institutions. This list contains a download of the information for primary and secondary institutions. These files are updated on a monthly basis. As all address details are provided by the institutions, the Ministry gives no indemnity as to the correctness [...]

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Public Sector Directory

State Services Commission

The Public Sector Directory contains a comprehensive list of New Zealand Government organisations. The data for this directory has been collated and cleaned from a variety of sources including Archives New Zealand, the State Services Commission, Local Government New Zealand and direct from the various agencies. The resulting data is stored on an LDAP (Light Directory [...]

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Register of Radio Frequencies

Ministry of Economic Development

The Register of Radio Frequencies is a public register of radio licences and spectrum rights issued by the Radio Spectrum Management Group (RSM) in New Zealand. The Register holds all information of assigned frequency use, including the licence or spectrum right holder details, and the time period for which the licence or spectrum right has [...]

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Rodney Food Premises Grading

Rodney District Council

Every food premise in Rodney has a food grading certificate. The Council is responsible for inspecting and registering the premises. Each shop must clearly display their certificate of registration, which includes their food grading, so it is obvious to customers when they enter. In an effort to raise awareness about the food grading system, Council [...]

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Scanned Marine Charts

Land Information New Zealand

LINZ produces specialised nautical charts to aid safe navigation in New Zealand waters and certain areas of Antarctica and the South West Pacifc.  A selection of the charts are available as scanned images.  LINZ does not guarantee the tiff files are up to date.

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School Zones

Ministry of Education

An enrolment scheme is a means of limiting the roll to prevent overcrowding at the school and enabling local students to enrol. The Ministry of Education is also able to make best use of the current accommodation at schools in the surrounding area. This dataset is a geo-spatial representation of those zones. The data is currently [...]

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Tax Outturn Data

The Treasury

Tables of monthly tax revenue and receipts from collecting departments. Tax data are sometimes difficult to interpret as economic indicators, but tax outturns are among the earliest data available about the state of the economy. The Government has decided that it is important that this information about the economy should be available to market analysts, and [...]

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Tertiary Education Directory

Ministry of Education

The Ministry of Education maintains addresses and other descriptive details of all New Zealand educational institutions. This list contains a download of the information for tertiary institutions. These files are updated on a monthly basis. As all address details are provided by the institutions, the Ministry gives no indemnity as to the correctness of the [...]

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Tide Predictions

Land Information New Zealand

Daily predictions of the times and heights of high and low waters at Standard Ports, Secondary Ports tide information, Standard Port datum descriptions and tidal levels.  Tables are provided in both PDF and comma delimited text (CSV) format. The tide predictions on [...]

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