A number of external factors help to inform transport decision making, including GDP, regional economic activity, population data, local authority statistics, oil prices, freight statistics, and levels of socio-economic deprivation.
Links to economic and demographic data
- New Zealand GDP(external link) information on New Zealand’s gross domestic product available on the Statistics NZ website.
- Regional economic activity(external link). Reports that provide time series information on regional economic activity, available on the MBIE website.
- New Zealand’s historical population data(external link) provides details about the size, composition, and geographic distribution of New Zealand’s population, available on the Statistics NZ website.
- Estimates and projections of future population(external link) information on the potential future size, composition, and geographic distribution of New Zealand’s population, available on the Statistics NZ website.
- Census information(external link) provides the official count of how many people and dwellings there are in New Zealand as at June 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2013(external link). Note that the 2013 census was delayed from 2011 due to the Christchurch earthquake.
- Local authority financial statistics(external link) provides local authority annual expenditure information up to 2013 on the Statistics NZ website.
- Local authority financial projections(external link) contained in council long term plans, are available on the Local Government NZ website.
- Regional government expenditure (external link)estimates of core crown spending by region, available on the MBIE website provides.
- Oil supply, transformation and demand(external link) information on oil supply (which is intimately linked to transport fuel demand and costs), available on the MBIE website.
- Freight volumes and values(external link) provides information on freight volumes moved within New Zealand as well as import and export volumes and values, available on the Ministry of Transport website.
- Road freight vehicle fleet statistics(external link). Freight vehicles statistics are contained in the vehicle fleet statistics information, available on the Ministry of Transport website.
- Socio-economic deprivation(external link) information on New Zealand social deprivation, available on the University of Otago, Wellington website.
