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Making People Count

Date: 9 July 2008

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All the statistics collected by Statistics New Zealand are based on a defined geographic pattern. This pattern defines areas such as regional councils, territorial authorities, electorates and urban areas. The entire pattern is built from meshblocks. A meshblock is the smallest area used to collect and present statistics. The size of the meshblock depends primarily on the number of people and type of area covered. read more