Good morning Dr Ward

Thank you for your email received 17 November 2017, under the Official Information Act 1982.

As your request stands, small cell suppression will be extensive and will likely mean that the data provided would be less than useful. (Suppression would be to protect the privacy of natural persons, in accordance with section 9(2)(a) of the Act).

Is there an alternative at a higher level that may be of use to you? The Ministry could provide the information at the Ministry's Service Centre catchment level but note that these are based on 2001 area unit boundaries, we could then provide a concordance with the 2017 area unit boundaries so you can do your own population/other analysis. That would address the small cell suppression issue.

Alternatively, depending on the purpose for which you have requested information, the Minsitry may be able to work with you collegially (for instance if it is research with a University, we may have a memorandum of understanding).

You can contact us directly at this email address if you do not wish these details to be published.

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Ministry of Social Development

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-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Ward [mailto:[FOI #6844 email]]
Sent: Friday, 17 November 2017 10:34 a.m.
To: OIA_Requests (MSD)
Subject: Official Information request - Unemployment Benefit, Single Parent Support Benefit and Other Means tested Benefits

Dear Ministry of Social Development,

Please could you provide data showing the number of people in each area unit claiming each different form of means tested benefit by month from March 2013 onwards. In other words, for each month from March 2013 onwards I would like to have a table showing:

AU2017_Code
# People Claiming Unemployment Benefit
# People Claiming Sole Parent Support
# People Claiming Disability Benefit
etc.. etc..

The area units definitions created by Stats NZ can be found on the link:
http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stat...

If this is not feasible, please contact me in order to discuss.

Yours faithfully,

Dr Adam Ward

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