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New Zealand State Housing Dataset 1993-2009

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Abstract:

Housing New Zealand Corporation (HNZC) generously provided us with a dataset on 80,983 state houses covering the period 31 January 1936 to 16 February 2010. This derived dataset includes a tidied version of this raw dataset, with data spanning the period 1993 - 2010. The dataset includes information on acquisition dates, whether a property has been sold or destroyed, sales dates, sales prices, single and double bedroom numbers, and the location of houses - with each property coded at the meshblock level. Property type information is also recorded and describes the type of building - for example whether a house is a single unit, or part of a multi unit or multi storey building.  For sold houses, we have information on sale type: whether the sale was made to a state housing tenant under the Home Buy scheme, sold privately as a vacant sale, or sold to a community group as a Community Partner sale. The dataset also includes information on the construction date of the house, and the most recent change to each house’s property status.

Data Source: Housing New Zealand Corporation; derived dataset by Motu Economic and Policy Research.

Year: 2011

Data Access:

Data and documentation will be available shortly. In the meantime please contact for data access.

Uses of data in Motu research:

Bergstrom, Katy, Arthur Grimes and Steve Stillman. “Does Selling State Silver Generate Private Gold? Determinants and Impacts of State House Sales and Acquisitions in New Zealand,” Motu Working Paper 11-03, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.

Olssen, Alex; Hugh McDonald; Arthur Grimes and Steven Stillman. 2010. “A State Housing Database: 1993-2009,” Motu Working Paper 10-13, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.

Detailed documentation:

Download the data documentation (128 KB, PDF). Data documentation includes details about the origins and generation of the data, Motu contacts, and uses of the data.