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Name
of Field.
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Description
and summary of use in reporting.
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Comment
and source of data.
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Council
name.
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Names
and locations of all 74 NZ district councils. Separate database
of names addresses, CEO mailing list emails etc refers.
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Cohort
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Group
one of four for standard reporting group of Metropolis, City,
Provincial/Rural or Rural. Rankings highest to lowest are based
on ranks within the cohort/peer group.
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Used
in standard reporting for peer group reporting and for cohort
high and low measures in graphical reports. Standard reporting
cohorts/groups are principally based on population numbers modified
rarely due to predominant character (urban-rural) of district.
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Grouping
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Indicates
any council-client directed grouping (eg G9, regional, customised
etc)
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Any
customised aggregation 2 to 74 can be set by this system setting.
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Rating
system in use
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One
of Annual, Capital or Land (unimproved) value bases.
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As
advised by Quotable Value NZ (QV) as at rating year 1999 - 2000.
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QV’s
gross Land value
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Used
in “ability to pay ratio’s”
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Valuations
are Quotable Value’s most recent revaluations dated “March
2000”.
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QV’s
gross Capital value.
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Valuations
are Quotable Value’s most recent revaluations dated “March
2000”.
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QV’s
gross number of valuations.
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Valuations
are Quotable Value’s most recent revaluations dated “March
2000”.
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QV’s
net Land value
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Valuations
are Quotable Value’s most recent revaluations dated “March
2000”.
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QV’s
net Capital value
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Valuations
are Quotable Value’s most recent revaluations dated “March
2000”.
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QV’s
net number of valuations.
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Valuations
are Quotable Value’s most recent revaluations dated “March
2000”.
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Population
% increase estimated by Stats NZ between 1998 and 1999.
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Used
in a number of ratios including “difficulty” factors
and ability to pay measures.
Applied
in density ratings/ratios
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1999
Stats NZ estimate based on 1996 census and adjusted for births
and deaths since last census.
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Population
of the District
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Used
in a number of ratios including “difficulty” factors
and ability to pay measures
Applied
in density ratings/ratios
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1999
Stats NZ estimate based on 1996 census and adjusted for births
and deaths since last census.
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Number
of dwellings.
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Applied
in density ratings/ratios.
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Stats
NZ 1996 data- see also new dwellings – “building consents
data updates dwelling data from 1997 to 1999.
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Number
of multi-unit dwellings
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Applied
in density ratings/ratios
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Stats
NZ 1999 estimates.
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Number
of ratepayers
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Applied
in density ratings/ratios
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Based
on QV’s Y 2000 numbers of valuations from which a rating
assessment is drawn.
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Length
(kms) of local roads urban and rural
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Used
in a number of ratios including “difficulty” factors
and ability to pay measures
Applied
in density ratings/ratios
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From
Transfunds latest (June 1999) annual “Roading Statistics”.
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%
of rural roads
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Used
in a number of ratios including “difficulty” factors
and ability to pay measures
Applied
in density ratings/ratios
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From
Transfunds latest (June 1999) annual “Roading Statistics”.
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Length
of local sealed roads
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Used
in a number of ratios including “difficulty” factors
and ability to pay measures
Applied
in density ratings/ratios
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From
Transfunds latest (June 1999) annual “Roading Statistics”.
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Length
of local unsealed roads
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Used
in a number of ratios including “difficulty” factors
and ability to pay measures
Applied
in density ratings/ratios
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From
Transfunds latest (June 1999) annual “Roading Statistics”.
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%
of sealed local roads.
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Used
in a number of ratios including “difficulty” factors
and ability to pay measures
Applied
in density ratings/ratios
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From
Transfunds latest (June 1999) annual “Roading Statistics”.
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Number
of bridges
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Used
in a number of ratios including “difficulty” factors
and ability to pay measures
Applied
in density ratings/ratios
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From
Transfunds latest (June 1999) annual “Roading Statistics”.
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Length
of roads resealed this financial year.
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From
Transfunds latest (June 1999) annual “Roading Statistics”.
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Length
of roads rehabilitated this financial year (FY).
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From
Transfunds latest (June 1999) annual “Roading Statistics”.
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Transfund
roading subsidy payment this FY.
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From
Transfunds latest (June 1999) annual “Roading Statistics”.
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Area
of the District sq kms.
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Used
in a number of ratios including “difficulty” factors
and ability to pay measures
Applied
in density ratings/ratios
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From
Transfunds latest (June 1999) annual “Roading Statistics”.
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Number
of elected members including Mayor.
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Used
for relationship (proportionality) measure against retained earnings
and total revenues.
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Number
of Community Boards.
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Number
of employees (FTE’s)
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Used
for relationship (proportionality) measure against retained earnings
and total revenues.
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CEO’s
package $$$’s
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Used
for relationship (proportionality) measure against retained earnings
and total revenues.
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Councillors
remuneration
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Used
for relationship (proportionality) measure against retained earnings
and total revenues.
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Number
of significant activities
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Number
of LATE’s
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Name
of region containing District.
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There
are 14 regions including Gisborne unitary and three comprising
Nelson-Malborough comprising a group of four districts are also
“unitary” authoritys.
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Each
of the 74 districts is located (except for the Chatham Islands
and Unitary authorities) within a region
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1.
Shares (equities) held
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The
data items 1 – 21 below (Statement of financial performance-“profit
and loss account”) have been –laboriously- extracted
from council annual financial statements FY ended 30 June 1999.
Whilst
every care has been taken to “match like with like”
variability of council account codings render this “a difficult
assignment”. Items 1 – 22 (below) are not always exactly
comparable.
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See
relevant observations below re expenditures and non-comparability.
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2.
Investment Property
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3.
Pensioner housing
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4.
Current assets
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5.
Investments
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6.
Total fixed assets
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7.
Infrastructural assets
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8.
Public debt
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9.
Current liabilities
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10.
Term liabilities
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11.
Ratepayers equity
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12.
Investment income
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13.
Total operating revenue
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14.
Rating revenue
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15.
Commercial revenue
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16.
Other revenues
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17.
Taxation paid
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18.
Total council expenditure
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19.
Total capital expenditure
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Data
incomplete. Separate (Annual Plan database) refers.
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20.
Debt servicing costs
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Data
extremely variable due to inclusion by some council of debt repayment
amounts !
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21.
Annual reported surplus or deficit
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Unreliable
due to inclusion of capital items principally vested assets.
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There
is at present, due to widely differing accounting practices no
reliable measure of year on year district council operational
performance as indicated by this “bottom line” measure.
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22.
.Roading expenditure
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The
data items 22 – 40 below (Statement of Financial Position-“balance
sheet”) have been –laboriously- extracted from council
annual financial statements FY ended 30 June 1999.
Whilst
every care has been taken to “match like with like”
variability of council account codings render this “a difficult
assignment”. Items 22 –40 below are not always exactly
comparable. To address this definitional problem they are grouped
as “Amenities” costs.
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All
expenditures both amenities (aggregated-items 22-27 incl) and
Niceties (aggregated- items 28-40) are reported as the “Niceties
to Amenities ratio. This ratio gives a measure of the relative
expenditures of a council on utilities/amenities verses those
expenditures relating to community facilities and activities.
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23.
Stormwater expenditure
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24.
Water supplies expenditures
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25.
Wastewater/sewerage expenditure
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26.
Drainage expenditure
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27.
Refuse and solid waste expenditure
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28.
Democracy
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Items
28-40 (below) are not always exactly comparable inter -council.
To address this definitional problem they are grouped as “Niceties”
costs.
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All
expenditures both amenities (aggregated-items 22-27 incl) and
Niceties (aggregated- items 28 -40 -) are reported as the “Niceties
to Amenities ratio.
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29.
Reserves
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30.
Environment
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31.
Community facilities
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32.
Community owned enterprises
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33.
Economic development
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34.
Library
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35.
LATE’s (community)
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36.
Regulatory
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37.
Support services-Corporate
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38.
Internal recoveries
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39.
Property management
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40.
Business units if community based.
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Total
expenditures amenities
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Total
expenditures niceties
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Capital
expenditure amenities
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Data
incomplete. Separate (Annual Plan database) refers.
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Capital
expenditures niceties
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Data
incomplete. Separate (Annual Plan database) refers.
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Auditors
name
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Audit
fee
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Other
professional fees paid to Auditor.
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Audit
opinion (qualified or not).
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Depreciation
impact (due to change of acccounting policy)
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Revaluation
impact (due to recent revision to asset valuations, principally
infra structural assets).
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May
also include the influence of taking up water / energy investments.
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“Skew”
of financial result due to revaluations and or changes in accounting
policies.
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Current
debt % of total indebtedness.
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Current
/Term debt totals to 100%
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Term
debt % of total indebtedness.
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Current
/Term debt totals to 100%
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Aging
of term debt 1yr
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Gives
the spread of currently scheduled debt repayment/rollover timetable.
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Aging
of term debt 2yr
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Gives
the spread of currently scheduled debt repayment/rollover timetable.
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Aging
of term debt 3-5yrs
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Gives
the spread of currently scheduled debt repayment/rollover timetable.
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Aging
of term debt over 5 yrs.
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Gives
the spread of currently scheduled debt repayment/rollover timetable.
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Average
weighted interest for all borrowings.
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Estimates
used in cases when data incomplete.
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Number
of fixed income earners (FIE’s) in the district
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%
of FIE’s compared to district total population
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Building
consents approved in the current year
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Average
% movement of building consents over the last three years.
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Movement
in current % building consents compared with three year average.
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Economic
growth %
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This
is a current regional measure and will vary slightly for different
districts within the a same region. National comparisons (sector
average of the graphs) are between regions.
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%
of the work force unemployed.
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Household
average income
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Household
income variation from national Household income.
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Household
average expenditure
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Household
expenditure variation from national Household income.
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Comments
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Field
for comments relating to analysis/observations regarding specific
council stat.
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