Workshop 2: The Integrated Data Infrastructure - Enabling Cross-Agency Research and Evaluation

Abstract

tatistics New Zealand has created an Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) to make a wide range of data more accessible to users. The IDI contains longitudinal microdata about individuals, households, and firms. By bringing together many data from a number of sources, the IDI allows for longitudinal analysis across education, employment, migration, welfare, and business, with potential for further datasets to be added and linked. The IDI will help us to meet user demands for more or new information and to respond more efficiently to changes in existing data sources. It also represents an exciting opportunity to reuse and add value to existing administrative data. The Enabling cross-agency research and evaluation workshop provided an overview of the IDI, including examples of research and evaluation currently being conducted, and a demonstration of the reach and versatility of the dataset. There were five separate presentations: Building and using the IDI – Guido Stark, Kyle Uerata, and Brendan Mai, Statistics NZ Swimming in the IDI – Che Tibby, Statistics NZ Determining the outcomes of tertiary education: The contribution of the IDI – Zaneta Park, Ministry of Education Migrant outcomes and the economic impact of immigration – Paul Merwood, Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment Using the integrated data – Sarah Crichton, Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment Building and using the IDI