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Budget 2024: Explore the numbers in our interactive
Dive deep into the numbers and see what they mean for you.

Māori data in 2023 Census worth $2.4 billion in investments
Census reveals growing Māori numbers means more putea.

Hawke's Bay is getting younger: Average age decreasing against national trend
Is Hawke's Bay the new hip place to be for youth? Don't break a hip celebrating.

‘Transformative shift:’ 20 per cent of New Zealanders of Māori descent
'We will see Māori become a dominant part of the future workforce of Aotearoa.'

Revealed: The part of NZ which is growing fastest as Census data released
Stats NZ has released the first round of data.

Survey finds some Māori don’t like online dating, online shopping or surveillance cameras; know their rights
Privacy data shows the many dislikes of Māori

Breaking boundaries: Māori data apprentice empowers iwi resilience
Rickii-Lee Parekura is using data collection to empower her iwi.

Recession data: Have boomers been hit hardest?
Herald analysis shows boomers have been hit hardest by the cost of living crisis.

Digital media expert: How to protect your data privacy
An expert provides steps you can take and explains why you can’t go it alone.

Ka-ching: NZ's peak shopping period revealed for 2023
The Friday before Christmas took out the title of the busiest shopping day of the year.

Government births, deaths and marriages IT project halted
The DIA systems deal with sensitive, personal information.

Māori descent counts to be among first Census data released in mid-2024
Te Whata data platform will allow easy access to stats.

Gender pay gap explained: Why women are effectively working for free until end of the year
The gender pay gap has remained around 9 per cent since 2017.

Focus: Across the ditch - is the grass really greener?
Some say it's the best move they ever made, for others not so much. NZ Herald's data journalist Julia Gabel takes a look at the pros and cons (with the stats to back these up) of jumping the ditch. Video / NZ Herald

This is the annual salary you need to be happy in New Zealand, study claims
What’s the true price of happiness? If you live in New Zealand, it’s a lot.

Bubbles bring more submissions: Council changes up budget consultation
The council won the “SuperEngaged” award for its Budget Tool.

Police adding up to 250,000 identities to their database every year
NZ police have the identities of more than 7 million people in their systems.

The Warehouse privacy check: Journalist sent other people’s data
Amid the Warehouse Group’s tumbling profits and shrinking workforce, one area is growing.

StatsNZ stays focused on mopping up Census stragglers
Atawhai Tibble: 'You always have the resistant people'.

Stats NZ admits questions asked in the Census are not quite right for Māori
The government agency admits it wants to hone in more on what matters to Māori in 2028.

Partnership aims to make data more accessible for whānau Māori
Stats NZ signs deal with WairoaiIwi to share Maori data.