Injuries – Injury Information Portal

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Welcome to the New Zealand Injury Information Portal. This webpage provides links to information about New Zealand injury data. You can find information about Statistics New Zealand’s role as Injury Information Manager, and the Official Injury Information Programme. Links are provided to published data reports, information about injury data collected in New Zealand, reports and articles related to injury data, and to websites of other agencies that produce injury information. 

We want your feedback 

Each year Statistics New Zealand releases the latest Injury Statistics - Work-related Claims data. We are currently undergoing a review of this publication. Do you use this information, or would you like to? If so, we want to hear from you. To contribute, follow this link, send the email that opens, and we will be in touch.

Latest news

• Statistics New Zealand has just published the latest Serious injury outcome indicator reports for 1994–2010.
• One in four agriculture and fishery workers made an ACC claim for a work injury in 2010 – find out more in the latest Injury Statistics – Work-related Claims: 2010 publication.
• The New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy Secretariat has just published the Injury Prevention Outcomes Report - June 2011, which monitors the progress made towards reducing and preventing injuries in New Zealand.

Data

• Serious injury outcome indicator reports for 1994–2010 
• National Injury Query System – Injury Prevention Research Unit
• Work-related injury statistics 2002–10 – Statistics NZ Table Builder

Information about data

• Summary of injury datasets
• Template for documenting injury data collections 
• National Minimum Dataset (hospital events) data dictionary: Ministry of Health
• Mortality Collection data dictionary: Ministry of Health
• Selected Bibliography of Information on Using New Zealand Injury Data

Reports and articles

• Protocol for government agency reporting on injury incidence in New Zealand
• State of Workplace Health and Safety in New Zealand (Department of Labour)
• Exploring ways to improve serious injury information in current data collections: Feedback report 
• Injury Prevention Research Unit (University of Otago) reports
• Injury Prevention Information Centre (University of Auckland) research bulletins and fact sheets  

Releases

• Work-related Injury Claims – Information releases

Events

• ICD-10-AM Coding Workshop – Introduction to injury data coding – presentations now available
• Minutes from the Injury Prevention Network of Aotearoa New Zealand (IPNANZ) and Statistics NZ Community Engagement Hui, April 2010
• Injury Information Forum – presentations available

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Contact us

Email: info@stats.govt.nz