April 2, 2014
Census meshblock files: all the datas
Statistics New Zealand has just released the meshblock-level data from last year’s Census, together with matching information for the previous two censuses (reworked to use the new meshblock boundaries).
Mashblock shows one thing that can be built with this sort of data, there are many others.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »