DISCLAIMER
The results in this paper are not official statistics; they have been
created for research purposes from the Integrated Data Infrastructure
(IDI), managed by Statistics New Zealand (Stats NZ). The opinions,
findings, recommendations, and conclusions expressed in this paper
are those of the authors, not Stats NZ.
The results are based in part on tax data supplied by Inland Revenue
to Stats NZ under the Tax Administration Act 1994. This tax data must
be used only for statistical purposes, and no individual information
may be published or disclosed in any other form or provided to Inland
Revenue for administrative or regulatory purposes. Any person who
has had access to the unit record data has certified that they have
been shown, have read, and have understood section 81 of the Tax
Administration Act 1994, which relates to secrecy. Any discussion of
data limitations or weaknesses is in the context of using the IDI for
statistical purposes and is not related to the data’s ability to support
Inland Revenue’s core operational requirements.
Access to the anonymised data used in this study was provided by
Stats NZ in accordance with security and confidentiality provisions of
the Statistics Act 1975. Only people authorised by the Statistics Act
1975 are allowed to see data about a particular person, household,
business, or organisation, and the results in this paper have been
confidentialised to protect these groups from identification. Careful
consideration has been given to the privacy, security, and
confidentiality issues associated with using administrative and survey
data in the IDI.
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