31 October 2024
Chris Johnston
[email address]
Tēnā koe Chris,
Your request for official information, reference: HNZ00067725
Thank you for your email of 7 October 2024, asking Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora for the
following under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):
Please provide a machine readable dataset in csv/Excel format that shows the total
number of people by age and gender that are unvaccinated with any COVID shot from 1
Jan 2020 through to the present day as at the end of each calendar month.
The columns of the dataset would be expected to include:
1) Date: Date at the end of the month with the earliest date being 31 Jan 2020. That is
the first year of data will give a baseline of variation by month that subsequent years that
included the vaccination programme can be compared to.
2) Age: Age from birth as at the end of the month. 0 is the age up to 364 days, 1 is from
1 year to 1 year and 364 days etc. The highest age category should be 100+
3) Gender: Male/Female/Unknown or Other
4) Number of People: Count of the population of people under the care/enrolled in the
NZ public health system who are unvaccinated with any dose of any of the COVID
vaccines. The number in this column will change based on the variation in the enrolled
population, the aging of the unvaccinated each month, deaths, and by the number of
people transferring into the "COVID vaccinated" group.
Once a query has been written for one month, it should be able to be rerun for each
subsequent month on a programmed loop - minimising the effort involved. The code for
this OIA has previously been written for a previous OIA by HealthNZ.
Cell obfuscation: a) Where a cell is <5 people please populate this with "<5" for
confidentiality. b) True zero cells should be shown - or at least not included in the
dataset and not marked as <5. Please state which method has been used.
Response
Data requested is attached as
Appendix One. The data shows count of people not vaccinated
with any COVID-19 vaccines administered across the country, broken down by age and gender, as
a snapshot at each month-end between 1 January 2020 and 30 September 2024.
Counts fewer than six, denoted as ‘<6’, have been withheld under section 9(2)(a) of the Act to
protect privacy of individuals. In making this decision, we have considered the public interest in
release and determined that it does not outweigh the need to withhold on this occasion.
How to get in touch
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[email address].
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www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
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As this information may be of interest to other members of the public, Health NZ may proactively
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contact details, will be removed prior to release.
Nāku iti noa, nā
Sara Freitag
Manager, Machinery of Government Support
National Public Health Service
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
Health NZ, PO Box 793,
Wellington 6140, New Zealand
