Injuries – Injury Information Portal

 Data  |  Information about data  |  Reports and articles  |  Releases  |  Events

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. 

Latest news

• Serious injury outcome indicator reports for 2000–11 (Republished May 2013)
  Latest reports presenting annual numbers and rates of serious injury outcomes in New Zealand.
• Serious injury outcome indicators – work-related injury indicators redeveloped
  Explains and outlines the background and redevelopment of the serious injury outcome indicators for work-related injury.
• Injury Statistics – Work-related Claims: 2011 (October 2012)
  One in 10 New Zealand workers made a claim for a work injury in 2011.
• Injury Prevention Outcomes Report (June 2012)
  Published by the New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy Secretariat, this annual report monitors the progress made towards reducing and preventing injuries in New Zealand.

Data

• National Injury Query System – Injury Prevention Research Unit
• Work-related injury statistics 2002–11 – Statistics NZ NZ.Stat

Information about data

• Serious injury outcome indicators – concepts and methods for 2000–11
• Serious injury outcome indicators – work-related injury indicators redeveloped 
• 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

• Official injury information plan 2010/12 closure report (March 2013)
• Poster: injury information matters
• Improving the quality of place of injury occurrence information: Priorities for action 
• Protocol for government agency reporting on injury incidence in New Zealand
• State of workplace health and safety in New Zealand – Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (Labour Group)
• 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

• Serious injury outcome indicator reports
• Work-related Injury Claims – information releases 

Events

• Safety 2012 World Conference – Wellington, 1–4 October
• 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