Educational Links

Statistics New Zealand is New Zealand's national statistical office. It administers the Statistics Act 1975, and is the country's major source of official statistics. It collects, compiles, analyses, and publishes with or without comment, statistics on New Zealand economic, financial, production, environmental and social matters and is a great source of statistics for schools.

A simple data analysis system which encourages exploring what data is saying without the distractions of driving complex software. Initially designed for New Zealand high schools, iNZight now extends to multivariable graphics, time series and linear models. This project is led by Chris Wild. Major contributers include Dineika Chandrananda, Simon Potter and David Banks.

CensusAtSchool New Zealand aims to be the first port of call for New Zealand teachers looking for information and support for their teaching of statistics. The site contains a large number of original quality teaching resources including workshops, presentations, classroom activities, research papers, interactive data analysis tools, real student data sets and essential links to other statistics websites.

NZGrapher has been developed by Jake Wills, a maths teacher in New Zealand, specifically for supporting the teaching of statistics in New Zealand.  The idea behind NZGrapher was to create a web based statistical package that can run on any device without an install.

Infoshare is a self-service open online data tool on Statistics New Zealand's website which contains over thirty million aggregrated, confidentialised time-series data.  More than 110 million cells of data on topics which include; economic activity (e.g. price indexes and production figures).