Vitals articles

	Late Birth Registrations (November 2010)
	Wedding Tourism: 1980–2009  (October 2010)
	Measuring Fertility (September 2009)

Statistics New Zealand has occasionally published extra analysis of selected topics in the Births and Deaths Hot Off the Press releases. The links below will go to the top of the commentary section of a quarterly release, with some scrolling necessary to find the topic.

 

	Fertility rates by single year of age  (December 2008)
	Date of occurrence versus date of registration (June 2008)
	Age-specific death rates (December 2006)
	Infant and foetal death (September 2006)
	Sex differences in mortality (June 2006)
	Day of birth (September 2005)
	Month of death (June 2004)
	Trends in multiple births (June 2002)
	Trends in ex-nuptial births (March 2002)
	Fertility rates: An international comparison (March 2001)

Population Myth busters examine the stories behind some of the common 'population myths' (facts, fudges, and fallacies). Population Myth busters are published on the Population and Sustainable Development website. Those relating to vitals topics are listed below.

The 'seven year itch' (March 2010)

More women are remaining childless (June 2008)

New Zealand is in the midst of a baby boom (December 2007)

There are more people alive now than have ever lived (November 2007)

The average life expectancy of males is 6 years less than females (April 2007)

New Zealand women are now having their first child at age 30 (November 2006)

Half of all marriages end in divorce (November 2006)