Aaron Schiff • May 27, 2015 •
The NZ Census asks a bunch of questions about household access to various types of telecommunications services, like fixed-line phones, faxes, mobile phones, and the internet. The internet question is a bit crude — it does not distinguish between dial-up and broadband for example, and simply asks about access rather than use. But anyway, the […] … Read More
Aaron Schiff • Apr 12, 2015 •
I haven’t forgotten about my Census Challenge, but it’s been a while since I’ve done a post. The next question summarises rented dwellings by type of landlord. There’s one category for private landlords (individuals, businesses, or trusts) and three categories of “social” landlord: local government agencies, Housing New Zealand, and other central government agencies. I’ve […] … Read More
Aaron Schiff • Mar 16, 2015 •
Next up on my Census challenge is the number of usual residents per household. I decided to look at the ratio of the average number of usual residents per household to the average number of bedrooms per dwelling, by meshblock for 2013. As a very crude measure of household overcrowding, I’ve mapped the meshblocks in […] … Read More
Aaron Schiff • Mar 13, 2015 •
The Census classifies each household according to whether it contains one family, two families, or three or more families. There are also categories for one-person households and other multi-person households (flatmates etc). Within Auckland there are some geographic differences across the household types, as the following dotmap illustrates — click a category to see a […] … Read More
Aaron Schiff • Jan 30, 2015 •
New Zealand is a long and skinny country, so I wondered if it’d be possible to visualise some geographic data on a one-dimensional map, ie only using latitude coordinates. The next item in my Census challenge is household “tenure”, ie whether or not households own or rent their dwelling. This issue received a bit of […] … Read More