Geographic boundaries used in the Market Rent web app
Alex Raichev made this Official Information request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
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From: Alex Raichev
Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,
Can you please send me a table describing how the 2018 Statistical Area 2 (SA2) Units correspond to the suburbs named in the Market Rent web application at https://www.tenancy.govt.nz/rent-bond-an... ?
In particular, can you send a CSV file with at least the following columns:
- SA22018_code: Code of the SA2, e.g. 137800
- SA22018_name: Name of the SA2, e.g. Mount Eden North
- mr_name: Name of the corresponding Market Rent suburb, e.g. AUCKLAND - MOUNT EDEN
Thanks for your attention.
Alex Raichev
From: Ministerial Services
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Ref: 2021-1273
Dear Alex,
On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 11 January 2021 requesting under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:
“Can you please send me a table describing how the 2018 Statistical Area 2
(SA2) Units correspond to the suburbs named in the Market Rent web
application at
[1]https://www.tenancy.govt.nz/rent-bond-an... ?
In particular, can you send a CSV file with at least the following
columns:
- SA22018_code: Code of the SA2, e.g. 137800
- SA22018_name: Name of the SA2, e.g. Mount Eden North
- mr_name: Name of the corresponding Market Rent suburb, e.g. AUCKLAND -
MOUNT EDEN”
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Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Good evening
Please find attached the response to your information request.
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From: Alex Raichev
Dear *OIA,
Thank you for the information.
It's a good start.
My request is a correspondence table for *all* the Market Rent suburbs in NZ, not just Mt Eden.
(I used Mt Eden one example for clarifying the CSV specification).
Can you please send the remaining data through?
Thanks for your attention.
Alex Raichev
From: *OIA
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Good afternoon Alex
Please find attached the additional information requested.
Kind regards
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From: Alex Raichev
Dear *OIA,
There we go!
Cheers.
By the way, this file would be great to add to either the page https://www.tenancy.govt.nz/rent-bond-an... or the page https://www.tenancy.govt.nz/about-tenanc... for all the data nerds out there.
Alex Raichev
From: Alex Raichev
Dear *OIA,
I discovered something odd in the table you sent.
There are more (unique) rental areas than (unique) SA2s ---2,602 vs 2,144 to be precise--- which means that the rental areas are defined in terms of meshblocks rather than (the more coarse) SA2s.
Is this correct, and if so, how are you aggregating the rental bond data to rental areas in the Market Rent Calculator, considering that the rental bond data is given at the SA2 level?
Thanks for your attention.
Alex Raichev
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