Infographics
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Sponsored by:
Statistics New Zealand
$2000 will be awarded to the best visual representation of complex knowledge, information and/or data. Your infographic should help us understand something more clearly and reveal information that was not initially obvious. It should also be relevant to New Zealand.
We also have a special prize pool for the best entries from New Zealand Primary and Secondary students. Our Free to Remix educators guide provides great advice on how to get started making an infographic and with support finding openly licensed New Zealand content and data.
Things you need to know:
- You must use at least one piece of New Zealand central or local government data.
- You must have the rights and permission to use all data and content in your entry.
- You need to provide the details of all content and data that you use when you submit your entry.
- Please make sure you read and understand the full competition rules.
Open data to inspire you
Within the theme and competition rules, you have plenty of scope for creativity. The following is information about Statistics New Zealand data and some questions to help you get started. You don’t have to use this! We just wanted to give you some real life examples to inspire you:
Prices
Prices of a wide variety of goods and services are collected for use in a range of price indexes. A price index measures the change in price of a fixed basket of goods and services between two time periods. This change in prices over time is often called inflation.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) provides information on the price change of goods and services purchased by households.
The Food Price Index (FPI) provides information on the rate of price change of food and food services purchased by households.
Grab the Consumers Price Index: June 2011 quarter and Food Price Index: June 2011 quarter.
Questions to consider: Is inflation trending up or down? Are changes steady across the board or are some types of goods and services changing more dramatically? Which ones?
Household Economic Survey
The Household Economic Survey (HES) collects information on household expenditure and income, as well as a wide range of demographic information on individuals and households.
Purchases recorded by households include such things as fruit and vegetables, footwear and cars, as well as spending on services such as electricity, telecommunications and health. The survey also asks for detail on where households get their money from – for example, wages and salaries, self-employment, investments, or benefits.
Grab the Household Economic Survey: Year ended June 2010.
More Household Economic Survey data and information
Questions to consider: How do New Zealand households spend their money? Is this behaviour changing? How? Does household expenditure vary between regions?
Time Use
Time use statistics provide information about how New Zealand residents aged 12 years and over spend their time.This includes details about the amount of time people spent on paid and unpaid work, education, leisure, and personal care, what time of day these activities occur, who they are with, and who unpaid work activities were done for. A large number of characteristics of the people doing the activities are collected including age, sex, ethnicity, and labour force status.
Grab the Time Use Survey: 2009/10.
Questions to consider: How do people with different age, ethnicity, family role, labour force status characteristics share their time between paid work, unpaid work and leisure? Thinking of leisure activities, how much time are different population groups spending on religious, cultural and civic participation, social entertainment, sports and hobbies versus mass media and free time?
Trade
Overseas merchandise trade statistics provide statistical information on the importing and exporting of merchandise goods between New Zealand and other countries.
International trade in goods contributes to New Zealand's Balance of Payments, along with imports and exports of services. Goods are physical, produced items, whereas services include spending by international tourists and commercial services such as providing legal advice to a client overseas. Balance of trade and exchange rate changes are included in Statistics New Zealand's release of import and export information.
Grab Overseas Merchandise Trade: June 2011.
Questions to consider: Who are our major trading partners and what commodities have we traded with them over time? What volume of different types of commodity pass through New Zealand’s ports? How do import and export patterns typically vary over the course of a year?
New Zealand in Profile
New Zealand in Profile is an annual publication that presents an overview of high-level data about New Zealand's government, economy, and people. All information in New Zealand in Profile is compiled by Statistics New Zealand.
Grab New Zealand in Profile: 2011.
Further information and tools from Statistics New Zealand
Infoshare provides access to a wide range of time-series data. You can view and download the most up-to-date information from this large statistical database.
Use Table Builder to create and customise tables, including agriculture, Census and employment data.
If you have any questions about the range of data available from Statistics NZ, please contact Kelly Gage on (04) 931 4124 or email kelly.gage@stats.govt.nz.
More help with infographics?
Check out our guide to developing infographics in our Free to Remix educators guide.